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Wubuntu removes some apps that are common to most official #Ubuntu flavors, sometimes replacing them with a more Windows-like alternative, or sometimes several alternatives. It also adds fairly significant additional components. In some places, it goes to considerable lengths to be familiar to folks who only know Windows users; in others, things are unmodified from the standard #KDE or #Kubuntu behavior.
KDE’s distro won’t be the same as their KDE Neon (which is Ubuntu based) but it is uncertain whether the new one will replace KDE Neon (I think not because of the differences).
What is known about KDE’s new distro is the following:
The immutable core is pretty interesting, as that is a newer approach that I’ve not gone for yet. So we’ll only know for sure once there are versions out for testing.
It does look like they are trying to marry the benefits of a rolling release with stability, through the immutable core, good testing, and probably built-in rollbacks etc.
And it looks like GNOME is going for a very similar approach too.
See news.itsfoss.com/kde-gnome-off…
#Blog, #gnome, #KDE, #linux, #technology
I just discovered a nice #KDE setting whereby the window #TiitleBar's #Colour follows the #Palette of the #Background. As my #desktop background changes every once in a while. I get a slowly changing colour scheme.
An update in my latest Linux distro hopping experiment: I'm a few days into experimenting with the Fedora KDE Plasma spin in the VM. Graphics can still be hit or miss but that's just Wayland and VirtualBox not playing nice. I think everything has settled down except VSCodium has a bug where bringing up the menu crashes it. That's fine, I've been wanting to play around with Zed and this is a good opportunity. I have my software stack recreated for all my writing/publishing and going to try to crank out my first blog post in awhile on this new system. #linux #kde
Thank you all for the many recommendations to the LINUX issue. There were so many that I can't respond to all of them. I've also been using Linux for over 20 years and love it, even though I've never gone beyond Ubuntu. In the end, it's just a tool. My life was saved by music. (music with such chaotic vibrations that no computer could ever create it!) #linux #kde #linuxmint #foss #thankyou
Windows 11 24H2?? Sick of this?
Are you tired of doing your daily tasks with endless troubleshooting, console commands and explanatory videos? Are you fed up with unwanted monitoring and advertising? Switch to a modern, fast and peaceful system in your own hands today. Start using Linux today! MINT for daily use or Kubuntu for Power user and Futurists.
https://word.undead-network.de/2024/10/31/windows-11-24h2-sick-of-this/
#FOSS #freedom #KDE #linux #mind #selfdefence #windows
I got an #upgrade today to #KDE 6.2. I'm always a bit wary of upgrading the desktop in the middle of the working day because the behaviour may be unpredictable because of it. However, at first glance this is looking good. A detail that I like is that you can now map the #buttons on the #pen for my #WacomTablet to #MouseButtons as well as #KeyStrokes.
Habe KDE Neon in einer virtuellen Maschine als Live-System ausprobiert. Zwei Dinge wollte ich wissen:
Beim ersten Punkt hätte mich die Rückkehr der Funktionalität stark überrascht. Seit mehreren Jahren patche ich sie in Plasma 5 zurück, nachdem sie dort entfernt wurde. Die anwendungsseitige Implementierung war wohl irgendwie falsch - und anstatt das zu korrigieren, hat man KDE-seitig eben die komplette Funktionalität entfernt. Abschließend haben die Beteiligten sich damals gegenseitig versichert, dass eine geregelte neue Umsetzung gut wäre, aber niemand beabsichtige, eine solche anzugehen. 🙃
Beim zweiten Punkt hatte ich mir auf Basis zahlreicher Diskussionen über den praktischen Nutzen von Activities mit an KDE Beteiligten Fortschritte erhofft. Aber auch hier bleibt Plasma 6 in meinem Anwendungsfall hinter Plasma 5 zurück, weil Browser-Ressourcen beendeter Activities nicht freigegeben werden (es gibt noch weitere Probleme). Der Unterschied liegt aber teilweise wiederum daran, dass ich mir für Plasma 5 auch Konqueror in einen früheren Zustand zurückpatche (jedes Browserfenster ein separater Prozess, dann klappt es auch mit den Activities).
Ergo: Ich muss hoffen, dass mir Plasma 5.27.11 noch lange als Umgebung für meinen Arbeitsplatz zur Verfügung stehen wird. 😐
Right, as of a about a month ago, I think I can finally say that I've switched permanently to #Wayland from #X11. I've tinkered with Wayland for several years but always came back to #X since there were too many glitches, or things in development, which made for a shaky experience when compared to the #XDesktop. Although there are still some minor things, like, say #Birdtray for #Thunderbired not quite working as it should, everything else is at least as good now for the stuff I do.
I recently bought a #Wacom #DrawingTablet for my #Laptop. As with other #Hardware or #Peripherals that has been around for a while, there is no need to download and #drivers for it under #GNU #Linux as it's detected automatically and everything just works without any fuss. #Programs such as #Xournal++ detect variations in #PenPressure and draws lines of varying thickness depending upon it. It's taking practice but the results are quite precise in terms of position too. This will make both note taking and calculations during seminars much better.
https://linuxnews.de/kde-plasma-6-1-3-veroeffentlicht/ #kde #plasma6
