First look at the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Spin!
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- In today's (unscripted) episode of Veronica Explains, let's try out the fantastic Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Spin!
We'll check out Plasma, Fedora, Wayland, and see how it all stacks up. It'll be fun!
All music recorded by me, on Linux, of course!
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:25 My goofy old laptop
03:55 Finding the spins
04:52 Going through the installer
08:55 Starting up Plasma
10:17 Updating and installing software
15:47 Screen sharing with Zoom and Wayland
17:26 New Plasma Overview
18:43 Customizing hotkeys and the desktop
20:00 Parting thoughts
#Fedora #KDE #Linux - Наука та технологія
I've used the Fedora Xfce spin since version 28 with no real problems to speak of. I still have it on my backup laptop (in a dual boot with Windows so I can do my taxes once a year), but I moved my primary machine to Debian 11 Xfce (with the non-free network installer) because the constant kernel updates became tedious for me. (And I'm 75 and all those new-fangled things like btrfs make me nervous.) I have VS Code installed on both distros and it works the same, although language versions (e.g., go) are usually newer on Fedora. I added the VSCode repo to get it. I always enjoy your your videos, Veronica. Cheers from Wisconsin.
Love Fedora but the constant kernel updates make you learn about downgrading kernels and freezing working kernels really fast. As you mentioned, it gets annoying. If Fedora had a LTS version, it would be my #1 choice.
@@ProverbialGeek You mean like RHEL? :D
@@ProverbialGeek Alma Linux/Rocky Linux are binary compatible alternatives to RHEL.
I thought Xfce’s performance difference wouldn’t be too noticeable. Tried it on Ubuntu and holy smokes that thing made my system fast!
@@ProverbialGeek but I need my software updates, lts versions have lagging app updates.
I'd like a dual boot vid, and/or one that shows how to run off an external SSD. I really want to explore linux outside of a VM, but still worried about giving up my Windows setup.
Hey Veronica while you're at can you use two case pretty please 🙂
Case 1 - manual partitioning dual booting (with windows) with using the 2 drive (SSD+HDD) where you set SSD as the root partition and HDD as the home partition. We get fast system thanks to SSD combined with plenty of space on HDD for more user file. Eg a system having 120GB SSd & 512GB HDD
Case 2 - dual booting with manual partitioned as most new window user would prefer this(atleast I do) as they use partitioned space from their drives for using linux as a 2nd OS so as they can oneday switch to it permanently if they choose , manual partitioned dual booting is more feasible because you don't loose data if done correctly
@@Uchiha_Madara1224 Most of the vids I have seen on using an external SSD, show you needing to manually setup muliple partitions. I wonder if that is really necessary. Shouldn't the install do that on its own?
@@dakkon74 I don't know 😅
@@dakkon74 With the Fedora installer you can simply select the ssd you want it installed on. Im also using an external ssd.
@@sYnDaEx Good to know. I plan to try out
Totally agree! I haven't distro hopped in years since switching to Fedora KDE. The Fedora community could indeed advertise the other spins a bit more. 👍
Excellent video! I loved the demos of doing stuff and testing software along with the look at Fedora. Thanks. 😀
Thank you so much for an awesome video and I completely agree this spin deserves more attention.
This was an amazing review! User oriented, with the right amount of technical comments. Thank you so much! Subscribed
Exactly what I needed from the Fedora universe. I can't bring myself to get on Gnome. Thanks for the review, Veronica.
This is the first of your videos I've seen, and I love the vibe! (And that Amiga bouncy ball!)
High quality videos! Great job Veronica!
This is a very helpful video, especially showing me the installation. I would also love a dual boot video for fedora
Have always been a Fedora + KDE user. Even when I try out some other distros, it is always their KDE variant except Solus - for which I used their in-house DE.
KDE is leaps and bound ahead of its competition (for me) not because it is more 'Windows like' but more because almost all other DEs miss out of basic stuff. The most prominent case in point is Dolphin - I mean there is not one file manager which is even half as capable of it in Linux or Windows (can't say about Mac, never used it).
As per Fedora team, they are working on an updated Anaconda Installer :-)
If you can work with an orthodox file manager, you might want to try Krusader. It integrates with KDE very well and has a lot of useful features.
Just want to say most leave windows for a reason, Lol. I don't want my Linux like windows, except for the file manager to be able to open linux/windows folders, make it easy to do so. Great comment. I gave you a Thumb up.
@@EXTEZZEE I don't mind the Windows-style workflow, but I don't want my OS to spy on me like Windows, or try to lock me into some "ecosystem" like Windows. It would also be nice if it didn't consume ungodly system resources like Windows. So Linux with Plasma kind of checks every box.
@@johncate9541 My daily OS is GNU/Linux for the past 12+ years, can't stand the keylogging/spying either but the military/DARPA created the internet and social media and has a back door no matter what you use. I come from military family.
@@EXTEZZEE yes, but unless you're Edward Snowden, there's plenty you can do to be more price on the internet.
Hi! I've fallen on this video (a little late) searching for kde on Fedora and loved it. I've been watching some other videos from your channel and I like the way you explain and edit your contents. Keep it up!
Liked, subscribed and belled!
Great, review, Veronica, I´ve been using Fedora + Gnome since... well, ever, and your video gave me the push to try KDE.
Cheers from Buenos Aires, Argentina!!!
Great video as always Veronica!
First time watcher, thanks to UA-cam algorithm. Great video! I really like the way you present an explain things.
I came for the cute puppy!!!😃 Stayed for the Spin!
Thanks for another great video Veronica
Had some problems while running MX Linux 21.1 ahs but after watching your video, I installed Fedora 36 KDE, am happy to see that Fedora KDE has been running super smooth. I would have never looked at Fedora but when you said ''I think this distro deserves a lot more love from the Linux community and it does not get the attention that it deserves"; that is what inspired me to check out Fedora. Thanks Veronica ! Keep up the good work !
Just seeing this because of the way UA-cam shows me comments, but thank you! I hope it worked out for you!
Oh hello! Nice to hear from you again!
I've actually been running Fedora 32 on my Dell PE R710 because Ubuntu jammy builds were making corrupt ISOs. Ended up installing KDE for just in case I want to use the desktop for a bit. It just flies through everything, despite the low spec GT620 I've got in there. (Yes, I threw a GPU into a server to sometimes use desktops on it. 😁)
The repair manifesto poster is just incredible
Great video btw!
I recently came across your channel and it's a lot of fun! Very "sage Linux hippie" in the nicest and best way. Keep it up
O, and I love the C64 episode too
first time viewer caught sight of the repair manifesto, knew I was in the right place lmao. More power to you !
First video of yours I watched and loved it! I installed Fedora just yesterday (dual boot with Win10) on my 6-year old laptop after testing Ubuntu 22.04 and now will probably try KDE, thanks in part to your video! I think I got the hang of GNOME and its minimalist style is very sleek but it seems KDE is more of what I was having in mind. I've already seen some custom themes I'd love to try...
Keep up the great work, I'll definitely watch the eventual dual-booting video or the in-depth KDE look, I think you have a new fan 😅😁
I just found your channel and i like it so much, it's very helpful.
Been trying fedora kde plasma as my second try on linux and now it turned into my main system, absolutely amazing
I would like to say I have been a Linux user since 2010 or little before, possibly 2008. I am getting Old, Hahaha. You did a great Job/service holding new users by the hand walking them through Fedora 36. Very fun to listen/watch you. In case you have not done the other videos, you asked about if we wanted you to make. You better make them. Lol, No other UA-camr does a complete walk through, like you. Great job. I am thanking you for the new users out there. Please make videos of other Distros like arch/Manjaro, Debian, etc.
Hi Veronica, great video as always, and I appreciate the deeper dive into KDE as a lot of the Fedora 36 content I’ve seen has focused on the gnome spin. One of the reasons I’ve tended to hew closer to Debian/Ubuntu-based distros compared to Fedora is my relative lack of familiarity with rpms vs deb packages. I’m a “capable beginner” with apt and apt-get but for command line futzing with rpm environments I’m much less familiar. If you could do a video comparing deb vs rpm based systems, that would be fun and interesting! Keep up the great work!
Conceptually they are very similar, just the formats are different.
The rpm command is the equivalent of dpkg command and apt and DNF are functionally the same.
So for apt-get install you type dnf install
Updating all packages is dnf update instead of apt-get upgrade.
Adding onto the reply above, there's now a page on the Fedora Quick Docs detailing common APT command equivalents in DNF -- made it a lot easier to learn the latter package manager, as a relatively new Fedora user. 👌
I am glad I went to RHCSA classes about 6 years ago.
I failed the exam at the time (this was before I went full linux) but I know how to use the installer and a bunch of other admin stuff so I was glad to see it was not changed too much.
I have distrohopped for a while and kept coming back to Fedora all the time so I just stuck with it. groupinstall is a must-have.
That was a great video! Thumbs up on a video about dual-booting and one about Fedore KDE vs Pop OS!
It's almost spooky, Veronica and my grand daughter Em seem to be clones right down to the quirky charming humor and facial expressions! That aside Veronica thank you for this thoughtful presentation. I too am a Pop OS 22.04 user. I would love to see a video of Fedora 36 Plas,a dresssed up like Pop OS. I have never used Plasma but your excellent presentation has peaked my interest. I look forward to further content on your channel. Kindest regards!
My natural language is french but in understand you very well ; your diction is perfect and you speak at a perfect rate.
I am experimenting fedora with virtualbox on gnome, then plasma (i like both), after testing the manjaro for some time.
Good video !
Amazing vide. I gave this one a space as I never tried KDA plasma spins before like it but trying gnome out too and I'm like the unique feel to the flow of it.
Uma simpatia Veronica!!! Bela aula. Eu uso Mint Xfce e Manjaro Xfce. Desktops antigos....Abraços aqui de Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brasil
Excellent review! I have been using Fedora 35 with cinnamon and I love it. I will give Fedora 36 KDE a try. On F35, I had issues with Wayland and KDE. Looks like F36 works better. Keep up the nice work :) Cheers!
I see you've got the iFixit manifest on your wall. Love that! I'm a board member of the danish Repaircafé organization with 70+ local cafées all over our small country (Find Repair Cafe - Repair Cafe Danmark). I see there's something similar in The Fix Studio in Minneapolis. We do offer users to get a "renewal" of their old computer by installing Linux on it, but so far I don't know of any, who has gone for it.
This was simply wonderful
I have tons of hard drives in my computer. Some for storage along with USB, storage. But I chose which drive at start up because I have Fedora, Windows 7,8,10,11, Debian, Arch, etc. All installed to different drives ready to boot. I only keep my old windows around for certain programs that are just not supported good enough yet, like Davinci Resolve Black magic 18, few games that only windows run, Xbox Live PC. I have to get my daily dose of Linux or I get sick. It's my drug of choice. Hahaha. Just installed Fedora 36 a couple weeks ago to see what changed since 33. Really loving it and DNF. Great video, keep up the hard work. I know how much time you put into it.
I would like to see your modern windows dual boot method. You're very good at explaining things and I enjoy observing what methods you use during your work.
Прекрасный выпуск. Информативно, подробно и интересно! Спасибо Вам за ваше видео и за ваш труд. Успехов и больше подписчиков!
I laughed half way through it after that speed up scat singing, and I replayed it at .25% speed in UA-cam settings and recognized it from the beginning of the video. I know you're doing a presentation here but that got a giggle out of me. Fedora was my first GNU/Linux experience and I keep coming back to see how it's doing, but I'm still a Windows codependent. If it weren't for Raspberry Pi or live Linux distros on a thumb drive, I'd still be frustrated with just the one OS. But Fedora sure has gotten a lot better though. I like this KDE Plasma Spin.
Ten years ago I loved Fedora KDE but their current obsession with Wayland is a killer. I was excited by the reviews and hoped to that the hype was true this time. Alas it wasn't to be ... I couldn't log in to X11 with NVidia drivers. I was very disappointed, but the afternoon of frustration was not in vain. I realised that OpenSUSE proved more reliable on more modern hardware. No Wayland but the NVidia drivers worked and I could logon. Not as fancy but functional. And for development, Ubuntu 22.04 continues to be advanced and easy to use.
Great video! New sub here...
I moved from Fedora 36 Gnome to KDE version, just installing the latest KDE Package from Terminal. It's awesome how accurate and faster feels, I mean I can run my daily tools without feeling the memory blows up or that annoying unexpected closing windows.
btw, is installing the Fedora KDE spin and installing KDE environment to a GNOME Fedora?
I am running Fedora 36 (with GNOME) and it is superb. I always come back to Fedora.
Thanks for this video, I am installing this soon and I wanted to know more about it.
I hope the video helps! It's a great spin and I've enjoyed using it!
I stared out with PopOS, then hopped around for awhile before I landed on Vanilla Fedora. While I liked Fedora, I just couldn't get behind Gnome, and it sent me hopping around again. Once I found out about Fedora KDE, I stopped looking. It is a pronominal distro! However, I agree...the Anaconda installer isn't the best, although I do like the ability to implement LVM and LUKS across the two hard drives on my machine. Great video, thanks!
there is a KDE version of Pop as well.
Random Kubuntu user here. I have a totally unprompted request to hear more about dual booting a modern linux and Windows 11. KDE plasma is awesome, and so are you!👍
Gnome is pretty awesome for trackpad use. With Wayland at least. But plasma does look gorgeous!
You don't even need the spin, btw, dnf will readily install the entire DE. Gnome does seem to source its theme from the same settings file though, so changing your icons in one will also change the other.
Great demo of Plasma desktop for those who are using something else and aren't familiar with it. I'm actually running it under PCLinuxOS, but I'm not surprised Fedora does a good job with it.
love your videos 😍
Totally agree! I haven't distro hopped in years since switching to Fedora KDE. The Fedora community could indeed advertise the other spins a bit more.
The funniest Linux UA-cam channel I've seen, lmao, you on the tamberine and singing, along with the lil windows beat, I gotta say, it's pretty nice
Thanks for a look at Fedora KDE! Also appreciate the use of the phrase "kitty wompess (sp?)."
I got this video recomended by youtube. Your video is very professional. I upgraded my fedora in late december and early january installed budgie and kde my user experience with it was terrible. It was buggy system froze, then i couldnt boot the only good thing was the dark theme.
As a recent Windows refugee who struggled to tolerate the klunky default Gnome that came with F35, it was a ginormous sigh of relief when I tried out the Plasma spin. Thanks Linux Mom! 🙂
I liked both the Xfce and KDE spins a lot, but I'm really looking forward to checking out a Fedora Budgie version.
So excellent! Thanks!!
That goofy old laptop is the exact model I'm using. I think it's awesome.
I'd definitely be interested in seeing a dual-boot tutorial!
The random adlibs on this review are hilarious!
as a 25 years linux user, fedora is it (also suse is good) at work we don't like ubuntu (or any debian) so much, it has an annoying instabilities, after 3 years of fight we got rid of all them debians. if you never userd fedora, you're up to a treat. that said for beginners i do recommend mint, elementary and ubuntu. because they have the most desktop userbase and their more likely to find solutions to their questions. ps - you explain very well, I am going to point people to your videos... so thanks a ton for that.
Great video! Subbed 😊
Spot on Veronica!
I threw the towel on Windows when they stopped supporting Windows 7 and moved to Fedora KDE. Been here since version 30 and have never looked back. Totally agree with KDE being the desktop environment that is easiest to transition to for Windows users.
I don't really get neither GNOME nor the Mac-style dock 😅, and that's OK. I love it that Linux offers people choice and I love that I have found the right DE for me in KDE.
I like your videos. Please do more on Fedora KDE, as I too think it is under supported. If I can find all the apps I want, to work on Fedora, I'm going to switch to it from Arch. I love Arch, but I have to be careful when updating, so I need to keep making TIMESHIFT snap shots, for when it breaks the OS. I get the impression this happens much less often with Fedora, but you still get a rolling release!
Thank you for this, as a new to Linux and loves KDE off the bat it's hard to find spin/flavor/KDE edition content.
I'm on Kubuntu thinking of moving up Fedora for the semi-rolling nature it has.
Just discovered your channel.
Great video !!!!
I also prefer running KDE on Fedora.
Looks like a good spin!
I just discovered your channel this week. LOVE IT! Keep the content coming!
I love your helpful hint song 🙂
*I'm looking forward to the video about Fedora's experience with KDE Plasma! Gnome is not mine at all, but I really like Fedora, I would not like to look for a replacement for the distribution.*
Love your shirt!
Dual booting works like a charm on my win11+Arch laptop. No issues so far.All I did was partition from windows, install arch, install grub with os-prober enables, it picked up the windows install automatically,
Well explained thanks.
4:29 - Fedora Media Writer makes it very easy. It is available as a Flatpak so it can be used on other Linux distros.
Wonderful video! Keep it going. We need more women talking about tech and empowering others girls, showing and leading the path. You're truly amazing, Veronica! But you already know that, right?
I like that dog in the thumbnail. Good dog 🐕 👍
It would love to see a video on dual booting with windows 11, since that is something I could not figure out how to do that properly because of the TPM and secure boot requirements (having a nvidia GPU certainty didn't make it any easier). Anyways your videos are awesome and l hope you get a lot more viewers and subscribers because you truly deserve it!
She will if more people ask
Here's your algorithm appeasing comment. Love the content. Keep it up!
Cool video :) Keep making more Linux content :)
Great video thanks
I'm running lmde 5 on a 2015 Macbook Pro and it works great. Love Mint 🙂
Please do a video dual booting
I am new to linux to a point but i like the Fedora's installer. Quite detailed
i love federoa spins they are my favorite
I've found that creating a separate grub partition and not messing with the windows boot partition makes dual boot with windows pretty "stable" as in "won't break for no reason" stable.
I never have to run root but if you need to drop certain folders in the kde and plasma theme folders, you’re going to have run root to do it. Its protected to prevent inadvertent or deliberate messing around with critical system files but once in a while you have to modify them to configure the desktop the way you want it.
I'm loving Fedora KDE 36
Thanks! Trying out Fedora is on my to-do list as the last Red-Hat based distro I daily drove was Mandriva, about 15 years ago!
What's the memory footprint like using Fedora with Plasma? I do love Pop OS but it can use up 4 or 5GiB with just a browser open.
Would love to see more of fedora and kde
Oooh they have a cinnamon spin. I just installed default F36 two days ago, but I might have to do this again.
I run fedora 36 lxqt and love it on my old laptop. Also let's not forget that linus torvalds uses fedora. If it's good enough for him, then it's good enough for me. 👍
I love KDE, especially KDE Neon Plasma.
Great Veronica! I have to try KDE... I always use gnome on Fedora. PS: I love the music on your channel. When a live making music?
Gracias!
kde plasma is the gui mac and windows wish they could be. Low memory, fast, innovative, THE MOST full featured. I have watched its development and have used it full on for going on 7 years now. now. it is my default when I want a gui. LOVE IT Fedora is kool too
The Fedora KDE Spin and openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE are awesome. Haven't messed with i3 or LXqt which I'd love to try, but for Dev KDE is best. and use Arch when I need something familiar or for testing.
This one is awsome video as well
"Tested.. stable"
That cut killed me.
can't wait for the CDE release
Hi, Veronica! This video is awesome. So much that I'm downloading Fedora KDE right now!
I have a question: Could you tell me how you made your cute gloves? Do you use a t-shirt with a hole for the thumb above it?
They look so cool on you! :]
Thing with screensharing, it worked because you used the browser version. If you use actual applications like discord or zoom, because their clients don't support wayland yet, you won't be able to share the whole screen, only specific applications.
I keep both of those tools in their web-based iterations, mainly because I don't like cluttering my system if I can avoid it (I'm also not big on chat in general, but that's another story).
When I do a deeper dive, I might try the full fat versions on the desktop, just to see how it goes!
I started running Fedora with the Cinnamon desktop! Quite like it so far :)