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What's your desktop environment of choice?
Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
Windows managers, openbox, we don need no stinking desktop environments!!! We'll I don't but are amazing gui's in gnu/Linux. Each their own.
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
I am using KDE Plasma 5.8.6 in Debian 9, but the later versions are faster according to articles I have read.
I don't know if I can just upgrade the KDE version alone on Debian 9 without any problems?
I don't know if I can just upgrade the KDE version alone on Debian 9 without any problems?
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
debiandonder wrote:I am using KDE Plasma 5.8.6 in Debian 9, but the later versions are faster according to articles I have read.
I don't know if I can just upgrade the KDE version alone on Debian 9 without any problems?
I don't think so. If you must have the latest stuff, there are better options than Debian out there.
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
I don't now all the Arch Linux commands and I will rather wait for Debian 10 to come out before switching. KDE 5.14 just load faster than previous versions.Hallvor wrote:debiandonder wrote:I am using KDE Plasma 5.8.6 in Debian 9, but the later versions are faster according to articles I have read.
I don't know if I can just upgrade the KDE version alone on Debian 9 without any problems?
I don't think so. If you must have the latest stuff, there are better options than Debian out there.
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
Arch is not your only option. Check this out: https://www.pclinuxos.com/get-pclinuxos/kde/debiandonder wrote:I don't now all the Arch Linux commands and I will rather wait for Debian 10 to come out before switching. KDE 5.14 just load faster than previous versions.Hallvor wrote:debiandonder wrote:I am using KDE Plasma 5.8.6 in Debian 9, but the later versions are faster according to articles I have read.
I don't know if I can just upgrade the KDE version alone on Debian 9 without any problems?
I don't think so. If you must have the latest stuff, there are better options than Debian out there.
It is a little heavier on resources than Debian, but if you use a fairly new computer, that is a non-issue. It has many GUI-tools, has a fantastic remastering tool (mklivecd), is a rolling release with the latest applications (well, not alwaya all, but you can ask the developers do something about that) and has a friendly forum where the developers are active. It will typically roll out the newest KDE within a few days, and you can upgrade everything with Synaptic.
https://www.datamation.com/open-source/ ... istro.html
Expect more quirks than in (well tested) Debian, but that is the price you pay for the latest applications everywhere.
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
The older version of KDE just takes longer to load at start up than newer versions and after that it works great. I have a old AMD A10 APU and the fan on my graphics card broke some weeks ago and i removed it.
I works surprisingly well, but I won't try any resource heavy distro. I have enabled the backports on Debian Stretch and installed 0 A.D. because the version in the normal Debian 9 repository freezes all the time.
In my case older software is not always more reliable or stable. I think I'll wait for Debian 10 to be released sometime this year, hopefully and try a distro based on that, like MX Linux, but that will probable take even longer.
I works surprisingly well, but I won't try any resource heavy distro. I have enabled the backports on Debian Stretch and installed 0 A.D. because the version in the normal Debian 9 repository freezes all the time.
In my case older software is not always more reliable or stable. I think I'll wait for Debian 10 to be released sometime this year, hopefully and try a distro based on that, like MX Linux, but that will probable take even longer.
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Re: What's your desktop environment of choice?
I removed the entire graphics card and I am just using my AMD A10 APU, that's a CPU with some 6 or so graphics cores. It's not as good as a dedicated graphics card though.Wheelerof4te wrote:^How are you playing 0.A.D without a fan?