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A good simple Window Manager, now,.... that is the "ultimate".

Window Managers are too primitive to be of any good use to me as I don't have the luxury of having a pair of very strong eyes. My eyesight is not 7/7 and very small fonts as used by Window Managers make my situation far worse with burning eyes and a blurred vision. Unless Window Managers are provided with a tool to properly configure font rendering quickly, without the ridiculous need of spending hours upon hours fiddling with config files to get a decently sized font, they remain a non option for me. I used XFCE4.* under Devuan Testing which has very good font configuration tools.

The current trend is to make products look alike so that people recognize them more readily. This is happening right now to Gnome and probably to other major desktops like KDE. If Gnome or KDE or whatever, strips down configuration to the extent that I have to use a ridiculously small font, they will also cease to be viable options.

Some people require bigger fonts although not the type of offensive font rendering encountered using high contrast schemes. These have huge fonts rendered in odd colours as if only extemes exist. People may not have the best eyes, but that, does not necessarily mean they must have the worst eyesight.

KDE 5.10 in repos Today they updated to 5.10, Ive just updated, right now in testing period, the migration seems correct, kmail and others services working properly

>> So Stretch + KDE5.10


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bester69 wrote: KDE 5.10 in repos

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# KDE5.10 Netrunner Backports
deb http://deb.netrunner.com/dci/packages/netrunner/ netrunner-backports backports calamares ds9-artwork ds9-common extras frameworks kde-applications netrunner-desktop netrunner plasma plasmazilla qt5 

Today they updated to 5.10, Ive just updated, right now in testing period, the migration seems correct, kmail and others services working properly

>> So Stretch + KDE5.10


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5.10 is heavier than 5.9 and 5.8 and the sddm or/and kwin upgrade gave me a worse behavior--> So I roll back to 5.9.3 snapshot

Im very, very happy with KDE 5.9; 5.10 is some heavier for my old laptop, and 5.8 is more simple. So i'd recommend this version.

wizard10000 wrote:

bester69 wrote:...Have you tried KDE5.9??

sunrat wrote:I will use Plasma 5.9 when it is in Sid repo. I wouldn't be comfortable adding a 3rd party repo for that.

Same. I ran 5.9 for awhile when I switched to Neon during the freeze. TBH 5.8 was a good stopping point for Debian as I've found 5.9 to be a little more temperamental than Sid's 5.8.7 is, at least on my machine. I was also running Neon Dev Stable, so it's possible User and LTS editions worked just fine.

I see a little grumbling on /r/kde about Neon and 5.10.4 and there's a flood of Frameworks 5.28 and qt 5.37 source code moving into Sid from Experimental. I've been digging around developer mail lists trying to find out which version of Plasma 5 is coming to Sid but they're still uploading qt framework and I haven't been able to tell from package version numbers which release Sid will be getting.

Neon is based on Ubuntu, you might want to use Netrunner, its using debian testing, but i think you probably can use it with no problems with SID as well. I removed respositories cos they jumped to 5.10, and im staying in 5.9 for ever. I might go back to 5.8.x when they backported last FixBug pack, I will see. the good thing, is btrfs allow me to play with installations

I'm confused: one day, elementaryOS is the perfect distro, the other day it's Debian KDE, now Netrunner. I think I'm going crazy.

deborah-and-ian wrote:I'm confused: one day, elementaryOS is the perfect distro, the other day it's Debian KDE, now Netrunner. I think I'm going crazy.

Classic distro hopper

No need to ask which is the very bester distro ..the one that gets all the forum love

Have to say I don't agree, I think a lot of mainstream linux software is getting so bloated that we're on a crash course for becoming the next windows. I've scrapped all my display managers and I just run X11 with i3wm and call it a day.

y'all suffer from shiny new stuff syndrome...