Sunday, August 11, 2024

All about KDE Desktop of Plasma

What ever YouTube Guys say about KDE and Plasma Desktop is it is very heavy. 

It is as heavy as LibreOffice and takes about 3 minutes to boot with or without file checking.

KDE is by design immutable and cannot be changed.

Worse scenario is when mounted one cannot even format a USB stick.

Even if you want to view the files in a USB one has to give the root password as permissions. 

One cannot write an image.

Guys who are praising KDE should give its UGLY side, too

However, I have one instance of KDE as Netrunner to test it and compare with Gnome.

But KDE is getting better and the best current Linux distribution with KDE is Netrunner. 

I am reinstalling it again, after my mishap with Ubuntu Unity and Cinnamon corrupting the GRUB boot loader. 

The real problem with KDE is it is immutable and there is no repository to install additional Linux Utilities.

This can be overcome if one installs Kwin and KDE at the same time on top of Gnome.

Netrunner beats the other guys including Gentoo by having Synaptic Package Manager.

Installer is Calamara and installation is over. 

I am rebooting now.

Additionally Netrunner has both User and Root facility one of the basic features of Linux base.

There is no clutter in the desktop but on the right hand side the applications are nicely arranged.

The kernel seems to be old and it integrate well with Gnome 11 version desktop which I love. 

Applications are alas arranged in an alphabetical order and one need  or has to remember the applications one uses on daily basis.

Ragata OS of SuSe has the best KDE desktop and unlike other KDE clients Ragata is able to format a USB and I believe it can write Iso image, if needed.

There other distributions that support KDE.

1. Debian

2. PCLinux

3. Neptune

4. MXLinux

5. Manjaro

6. KDE Neon

7. KaOS

8. Nitrux

9. Suse

10. Kubuntu

11. Fedora

12. EndeavourOS

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