Fedora KDE

I&#x27;m one of those weirdos who loves KDE. KDE was the first DE I used back in 2007 when I first installed &#x2F; had help installing Slackware on my computer by a friend. Once he installed it for me, I tried doing it by myself without his help and succeeded. The only thing I&#x27;ll never truly care for with KDE is the browser it comes with, it&#x27;s like another IE type of browser, and it gets confusing cause KDE will open websides in more than just Konqueror but another weird browser-like thing. There&#x27;s also like two different file managers... I really do hope they kill off the weirdness. But KDE allows me to refine my desktop to feel like either Windows, Mac, Linux or a mixture. I can decide what my panels look like, where they go and how they behave.<p>It was Gnome 2 that gave me this power. When KDE 3.5 died and KDE 4 came out (around Vista times) it felt so sluggish and unstable and I ditched KDE for Gnome. Then Gnome became buggy and a lot less customizable. It still is, plugins and all. I really enjoy that KDE never took my freedom to configure my DE however I see fit, without having to install plugins. In that respect I&#x27;ll always love KDE more. To be completely fair I still find myself using Gnome sometimes, it&#x27;s not as awful as it once was, but KDE makes more sense to me. I just wish I could map the damn windows key to open the &quot;applications&quot; menu (one of those random things I wish KDE would just let me do), er I mean the &quot;meta&quot; key.

I was watching this youtube video [0] about KDE neon and loved the customizations that the person had made. I tried out a KDE distro in a VM and made the required changes : use an app icon based task manager, set 4 virtual desktops over 2 rows and set the same desktop wallpaper shown in the video [1] and it looks incredible. It&#x27;s been at least 4 years since I last used KDE and was blown away by how stable and lightweight it has become (I hear it uses less resources than even Gnome). And there&#x27;s also the infinite customization options and it looks good out of the box.<p>Now I&#x27;m considering switching to Fedora KDE as my daily driver. For people who use Fedora KDE as their daily driver : what&#x27;s your experience with this distro? Anything that people new to this Fedora spin need to be aware of? Any thoughts on the security track record of Fedora KDE?<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=um-OEl6b9N4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=um-OEl6b9N4</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;w439mEw.jpg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;w439mEw.jpg</a>

KDE seems to have won a lot of ground since the pre-plasma days. All I hear about it is how good it is. As a guy who can&#x27;t be arsed to change the desktop environment for his installs, I hope it becomes standard on more distros. Not that I&#x27;m unhappy with gnome, but it&#x27;s silly that it&#x27;s the defacto default for most of them.

I&#x27;ve been using Fedora for something like five years, and I love it. It just works. Recently I&#x27;ve been experiencing some weird issues with Gnome (performance wise, low fps, I guess the whole shell megathread problem) so I decided to try the KDE spin - whom a lot of people often disregarded as a &quot;second class citizen&quot; - and I must say I am positively surprised. Everything is smooth and no big issues, great hidpi support and very snappy!

I run Fedora KDE on my desktop.<p>It’s ok but I don’t know that I’d recommend it specifically over anything.<p>Literally the only reason I use Linux still is that Firefox and Chrome have too many bugs and issues on FreeBSD, otherwise I’d run FreeBSD on my desktop too as I do on my server and one of my two laptops.<p>My other laptop is currently running macOS but I almost haven’t used it since I put macOS on it, partly because the mouse stops working after a while but also because I’ve just been busy with a lot of other stuff so I haven’t had time to sit down with macOS since installing it on said laptop some weeks ago. Time flies by <i>way</i> too fast.

I bailed on KDE overnight at KDE 4.1. You couldn&#x27;t have an NFS mounted home dir, as they had made mysql a requirement for Akonadi, without which kmail and everything else failed to work.<p>Suddenly KDE was no longer &#x27;enterprise&#x27; ready, as no enterprise I&#x27;ve ever worked for has offered anything but NFS for home directories.<p>Occasionally I come across a coworker who uses konsole, as they like the tabs. But I&#x27;ve never seen it in use widely again.<p>Have they removed this limitation?

Gnome has many many extensions, some of which are actually quite useful like, governors &#x2F; frequency changing, visual display of caps lock, and such. IIRC these plugins&#x2F;extensions are called plasmoids under KDE, right? Are those 2 plugins I described available ? I never seem to find them when I play around with KDE.

This is probably a silly question, but what advantage(s) does this have over installing plain Fedora and installing KDE manually? (Beyond convenience?)<p>I guess your installation will be smaller and you will have to process fewer updates. Which is not insignificant, I guess.<p>Anything else I might be missing?

I really wish there was an easy way to change terminal line spacing in ANY of these distros.

do many people still use KDE?<p>I never really got on with it myself. No distro seems to ship it as their default desktop any more, only as respins. Gnome seems to have pretty much won the desktop environment wars.