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0 pointsdoubled1123y ago0 comments

Agreed. We don't need more desktops, we should improve the ones we have.

Speaking of improvements, if you haven't tried KDE in a while, it has become considerably lighter in recent years. It is quite a bit snappier as well.

Skipping the indexing features, it gets pretty close to Xfce, MATE and LXDE in resource usage.

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moffkalast3y ago· 2 in thread

I'm actually running KUbuntu 20.04 on one of my machines right now and it's honestly really good (outside some occasional annoying shit that'll be ironed out eventually I hope), but I'm running it from an SSD with fairly decent hardware so it's hard to say anything about performance.

doubled112OP3y ago

I tried OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a couple weeks back on a Raspberry Pi 4 and found the experience tolerable.

Of course, tolerable is a subjective term.

moffkalast3y ago

This reminds me, someone needs to make an open source remake of Among Us and call it OpenSUS

wink3y ago

This is not a slight against KDE, but without a tiling WM I'm maybe not enjoying it enough to switch from Windows.

It's one thing that I can't do my work on Windows (without a VM or containers), but my workflow being completely dead in the water with KDE or xfce is something else.

This is not only about fragmentation, it's also about philosophy of WMs/DEs.

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