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Plasma is just incredible (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by golden_zealot@lemmy.ml to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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I recently installed KDE Plasma to my Debian system after using Gnome my entire life. I still quite enjoy gnome, but I think that its workflow is better suited to a mobile system like my laptop.

Using Plasma on my desktop system has been revolutionary - there is a stupid amount of functionality in here. In particular, widgets, themes, and activities are just so well implemented for the most part - I really feel like I can tailor the GUI to my needs and wants, and I think this is an enormous part of what is making Linux a truly modern OS when compared to proprietary alternatives.

The more I tweak things, the more the system feels truly like MY system - something that I don't think I could make work with proprietary software.

I was not a big fan of the splash screen until I found out that, of course, it can be disabled or customized as well - so now I find myself making vector graphics to customize that as well haha.

My only real regret is that having been on Gnome originally, some Gnome stuff can get in the way (though I do still kind of like using GDM instead of SDDM). Whenever I should do some big update/upgrade I am for sure installing plasma from the get go.

As someone who is new to KDE overall, and particularly with a system that has Gnome still partially installed, if there is anything I should know, I would appreciate it. Furthermore if anyone has any favorite widgets and whatnot, I would love to hear about them as well.

Thank you

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't use it myself - I'm more a keyboard guy, and use lightweight tiling WMs - but my wife's laptop is running KDE and Plasma. I have to say, whenever I go into the machine to do maintenance, I'm surprised at how far KDE has come. It looks polished, professional, and attractive; there are no glitches or weirdness (that plagued Plasma in the early years), it's smooth, and just... really nice. Really nice. I wouldn't hesitate to install it on any computer for friends or family, distro choice notwithstanding. Not sure how it would run on a resource starved ARM micro computer; I might still think twice about that, but given that you can get a reasonably powerful, 12-core AMD mobile CPU-based mini with 16GB RAM for, like, $300 on Amazon, I can't imagine why anyone would try to run a desktop on Pi anymore anyway.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

I had the same feeling - I still disregarded other choices in favor of XFCE on my little home server since I mostly interact with it over ssh anyway and didn't need all the other functionality others have for it.