back to KDE after so long

FatRakoon · 28 Mar 2013 at 17:27

When KDE 4 came out, I lost my love for it... dont have a clue as to wtf is going on with the desktop icons, but I moved to gnome and for the most part, I have been very happy with it.

However, since gnome went with this unity junk, I have lost my love for gnome too... Thankfully, MiNT has MATE and now I find that my personal favourite Sabayon also has mate. this is good news to me.

Now, with me running Mint 14 MATE, I then had a piddle about with KDE and after some mesing about, I found that i I use the FOLDER VIEW for the desktop, the Icons are back to normal, and snap to a grid, and this is exactly how I like it.

I then installed Mint KDE but there was a couple of niggles ( Minor but something that I never suffered with the previlous KDE install through mint ) and then I tried the new Sabayon 11 KDE and thats 100% perfect for me.
Slight issue in that its ben updating for over 4 hours now, and I dont know why its so slow, but im not overly concerned just yet.

The end result though is that I seem to be back on KDE now, and back on my baby Sabayon too, so for a change... Im happy with Linux again.

badcompany · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:23

never tried sabyon how does it compare to debian?

melvis · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:40

i agree that unity is junk, thats not gnomes fault though

gnome shell is there latest DE, (which i dont like either, but i digress), i could never get along with any gentoo based distros like sabayon, the excessive recompiling just seems a waste of time to me, for <5% performance increases, but each to there own, thats the beauty of linux

if there was only a file manager for qt i could get along with id probably be with you in kde, till then, gnome-classic

badcompany · 28 Mar 2013 at 18:56

I enjoy the simplicity of gnome classic but xfce is nice too, never been able to get on with kde.

Hades · 28 Mar 2013 at 21:04

I've never been a fan of KDE and favoured Cinnamon. But have just tried it out and actually it's quite nice. I think I'll try it for a bit longer.

craptakular · 29 Mar 2013 at 11:00

I like KDE4 and the old gnome as well as the new, Unity is Conical's beast and is a fork of gnome, is that correct?

KDE 4 feels the most swishy and polished desktop manager to me. Although I did use gnome for many years.

deadite66 · 29 Mar 2013 at 11:15

i run Mate atm, it keeps folder position and size.
visually i prefer KDE, it also has better multiscreen support.

FatRakoon · 29 Mar 2013 at 12:54

badcompany said:
never tried sabyon how does it compare to debian?

Wow, thats like asking me to compare a car and a bike.

Maybe a fairer comparison would be comparing the latest brand new car with an old, but ultra reliable one. I find them both shockingly stable for me, but debian losesout in that the overall feel is bit windows 98 or just rough and sabayon just feels higher class, more slicker. Silly I know, but thats how I feel.

melvis said:
the excessive recompiling just seems a waste of time to me, for <5% performance increases, but each to there own, thats the beauty of linux

Never noticed it with Sabayon, but I know what you mean.

deadite66 said:
i run Mate atm, it keeps folder position and size.
visually i prefer KDE, it also has better multiscreen support.

I have been with Mate a fair while myself and I do love it, but yes, KDE is definitely visually better, but its also those little apps that make me giggle... Chucking a "K" in front of anything suddenly makes it a KDE app... Hilarious!... Im off for a kslash now.

biron_w · 31 Mar 2013 at 02:34

Sabayon is very good indeed as is KDE.

Number_25 · 31 Mar 2013 at 08:24

I really don't understand the fascination with KDE.

It's horrible to look at!

biron_w · 1 Apr 2013 at 22:45

Number_25 said:
I really don't understand the fascination with KDE.

It's horrible to look at!

The stock KDE skin isn't exacty the nicest looking but there are some excellent skins for it.

FatRakoon · 2 Apr 2013 at 00:44

biron_w said:
The stock KDE skin isn't exacty the nicest looking but there are some excellent skins for it.

Agreed. Im using a kind of mix on my Laptop, and Im buggered if I can work out what I did to get it that way but thats the beauty of it all... Perhaps however the fact that there is so much customisability and the features are accessed in different ways, that maybe its also a down side to it too!

Number_25 · 2 Apr 2013 at 00:53

You know what, I fancy a change - what Linux distro should I get if I want to try KDE?

Mint?

Hades · 2 Apr 2013 at 00:57

Number_25 said:
You know what, I fancy a change - what Linux distro should I get if I want to try KDE?

Mint?

And in one sentence you've encapsulated what's so great about Linux... "if you fancy a change then just try something else". When I started trying Linux back in the late 90's or early 2000's I saw that as a downside as I simply couldn't decide what to use. But nowadays I realise it's such a great asset to have.

craptakular · 2 Apr 2013 at 06:43

Why change distribution? Why not simply install kde?

FatRakoon · 2 Apr 2013 at 11:06

craptakular said:
Why change distribution? Why not simply install kde?

That right there.

If however you do also want to try a different distro, then sure, why not?

Mint is a great distro for it.

biron_w · 2 Apr 2013 at 18:56

Number_25 said:
You know what, I fancy a change - what Linux distro should I get if I want to try KDE?

Mint?

Mint is good.
I'm currently using Sabayon KDE which is also good.
There's a distro called Chakra which I really like as well but it's not very linux newby friendly. You have to manually partition your hard drive and there's no graphical package manager so you have to use the terminal. I stopped using it for the last reason but once they sort out a proper package manager then i'll go back to it.

deadite66 · 4 Apr 2013 at 17:06

Sigh, Mate 1.6 has removed per folder size/position saving. :-(

craptakular · 4 Apr 2013 at 20:35

biron_w said:
Mint is good.
I'm currently using Sabayon KDE which is also good.
There's a distro called Chakra which I really like as well but it's not very linux newby friendly. You have to manually partition your hard drive and there's no graphical package manager so you have to use the terminal. I stopped using it for the last reason but once they sort out a proper package manager then i'll go back to it.

its Arch, and that is its advantage.

inSilica · 5 Apr 2013 at 00:50

biron_w said:
Mint is good.
I'm currently using Sabayon KDE which is also good.
There's a distro called Chakra which I really like as well but it's not very linux newby friendly. You have to manually partition your hard drive and there's no graphical package manager so you have to use the terminal. I stopped using it for the last reason but once they sort out a proper package manager then i'll go back to it.

Sabayon is a great distro which builds on the awesomeness of gentoo. Arch is hardly designed for linux virgins and neither is gentoo. Although Arch and gentoo have steep learning curves, the experience alone teaches you much about linux. These distros are designed to give you fine granular control over the operating system.

I left KDE as soon as it hit version 4 and likewise abandoned gnome with version 3. I played with XFCE for a while but it became too much of a chore using the mouse so settled with awesome until I got of things breaking with updates. Finally settled with i3 which now resides on all my machines, including ones at work.

I've just finished a fresh gentoo hardened (LUKS + GRsec + PAX) and it has been a very satisfying experience.