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Is KDE actually good or it is overrated? Or I was just unlucky because of prebuilt distros? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello folks. I use many distro from Debian to Fedora to OpenSuse and Arch. I also use many window managers like i3, dwm and qtile. On desktop environment, I use XFCE the most. Currently, I am looking to try something new, hence KDE.

I am looking for something with a beautiful UI and works out of the box. So, something on the same spectrum as XFCE but more pretty.

I tried out the distros with preinstalled KDE: Fedora KDE, Manjaro KDE, Kubuntu.

The good: KDE is beautiful and very easy to use. I actually enjoy using my computer more.

The bad: it crashes.. a lot even when I turn off all the animations. My system is not that slow: AMD 7 Pro with 64 GB of RAM. Some examples:

Logging in, KDE hangs for 30 seconds. Even when I finally see the desktop, I would need to wait a further 10 seconds to finally able to interact, i.e. click and open stuff.
After resume suspend, system would hang and there is nothing I can do except for a forced reboot.
Browsing the web with only 3 tabs opened, KDE also hang.

As much as I hate GNOME, everything just works. I installed the GNOME flavors of above distros and never experience any hiccups.

If KDE works for you, do you use a preinstalled distro and which one? How about if you install KDE from scratch, like Arch?

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[–] Boxscape@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (9 children)

If KDE works for you, do you use a preinstalled distro and which one?

Has largely worked fine for me on Tumbleweed.

There is/was an issue with launching some of the 'K' apps causing the desktop to hard lock. But this happens very rarely.

Haven't experienced problems like what you're describing though.

[–] lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

Been using Tumbleweed as well. May I ask if you encountered these 2 issues:

Copy 1Gb movie to flash drive, says it's done in 10 seconds. Try to remove the flash drive, still in use. Turns out it's actually still copying.
Send some files, whatever the size, even 10Mb, to the trash and it takes a minute per file.

Stumbled upon some github issues saying that it's a longstanding problem (since 2009 even), but I can't believe that people put up with it for so long without fixing it.

I'm not even thinking of changing DE but this is annoying to say the least.

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 1 points 1 day ago

This happens on slower USB devices the data is buffered and the write won't be complete right away. You can use the "sync" command and wait until it completes to make sure it's done before you unmount the device. These days KDE shouldn't let you unmount before it's done though.

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