Fedora have an official KDE spin, which you'll probably prefer. It's a great DE.
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Cheers! I’ll download and try KDE.
Just installed, it did run an update to Fedora overall, 6.15 something which has a bug with AMD currently, grey flickering etc so had to drop down a version. Prefer this to Gnome, just have to have a play with it now.
Just installed, it did run an update to Fedora overall, 6.15 something which has a bug with AMD currently, grey flickering etc so had to drop down a version. Prefer this to Gnome, just have to have a play with it now.
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I recently (about 4 weeks ago?) took the plunge and ditched Windows and I couldn't be happier. I went with Arch because I like the barebones approach and started with Hyprland which was great, but it has some issues when it comes to full screen apps like gaming. While games themselves run amazingly, trying to get to windows that launch behind the game window is nigh-on impossible, or when I tried it would freak the game window out completely. Some games would launch completely off screen with no way to get them back.
I've been using KDE Plasma for the last few days and (with some tweaking on keybinds) it's actually really nice, and I might stay here. My only issue is setting up noise reduction for my mic as both my wife and myself are behind one-another and my mic picks up her voice a lot when we're in Discord calls together, but I'm still tweaking EasyEffects (and considering buying an external mic instead of using my headset one)
I'm genuinely surprised at the gaming performance of Linux - so far every game beats Windows from an FPS and no-stuttering perspective. Very happy.
I've been using KDE Plasma for the last few days and (with some tweaking on keybinds) it's actually really nice, and I might stay here. My only issue is setting up noise reduction for my mic as both my wife and myself are behind one-another and my mic picks up her voice a lot when we're in Discord calls together, but I'm still tweaking EasyEffects (and considering buying an external mic instead of using my headset one)
I'm genuinely surprised at the gaming performance of Linux - so far every game beats Windows from an FPS and no-stuttering perspective. Very happy.
After being quite impressed by MacOS on a recenty acquired MBA.....I rather impusively wiped my desktop of Windows 11 last weekend and put KDE Neon on it. It's Ubuntu LTS with the latest KDE version.
KDE Plasma 6.4 was a bit buggy at first, particularly on waking from sleep. I've just installed 6.4.1 so hopefully that'll improve.
I'm generally impressed with the fact most stuff works fine. My DAC, Usb-C Hub, webcam etc. The USB mic I'm using seems to be a bit of a PITA....but I can live without it for now.
KDE is very nice, keeps out of my way.
Only thing that does bug is that copy and pasting seems quite inconsistent.....Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V just don't work a lot of the time.
KDE Plasma 6.4 was a bit buggy at first, particularly on waking from sleep. I've just installed 6.4.1 so hopefully that'll improve.
I'm generally impressed with the fact most stuff works fine. My DAC, Usb-C Hub, webcam etc. The USB mic I'm using seems to be a bit of a PITA....but I can live without it for now.
KDE is very nice, keeps out of my way.
Only thing that does bug is that copy and pasting seems quite inconsistent.....Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V just don't work a lot of the time.
I found that waking with Plasma was problematic so I disabled the auto-suspend. Launching from a shutdown is fast enough anyway.
I haven't had any copy-paste issues outside of images though. If I take a screenshot with Spectacle and use Copy, it goes into the clipboard but won't paste into all applications. They'll paste into, say Google Image Search, but not Discord (consistently, sometimes it does).
Touch wood, 6.4.1 seems to have sorted the occasional issues I'd had, been solid since installing it.
First time using Mint lately. It's fine, like any Ubuntu LTS based distro really. I would say that Mint is probably easier to use coming from Windows, though.
I've never really used any Linux desktops before, my OS of choice is debian server. I wanted to mess around with AI stuff with my 5090 and figured itw ould be easier to dual boot, I was going to go Ubuntu LTS, but I always pick that if I have to use a desktop, figured I'd try something slightly different. Turns out it's not all that different.
I've never really used any Linux desktops before, my OS of choice is debian server. I wanted to mess around with AI stuff with my 5090 and figured itw ould be easier to dual boot, I was going to go Ubuntu LTS, but I always pick that if I have to use a desktop, figured I'd try something slightly different. Turns out it's not all that different.
