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Re:Kate is 20 years old by AntiImperialist on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:41AM (#25430709)
Does anyone uses KDE on their day-to-day machine?

Which distro?

I haven't used KDE since either openSUSE or Mandrake very long time ago.

Re:Kate is 20 years old by shorts_theory on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:47AM (#25430764)
KDE Neon (https://neon.kde.org/) is pretty great. It's based off the latest LTS version of Ubuntu, but is less bloated and gets KDE Frameworks updates quicker than Kubuntu.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by AntiImperialist on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:25AM (#25431117)
Do they support older LTS releases? Like for example, do they still support Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 18.04?

I'm asking because if I install 20.04 now, I may want to continue using it until its EOL.

Re:Kate is 20 years old by mxuribe on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:35AM (#25431191)
I can't say my "day-to-day machine", because that is (unfortunately) windows 10 - due to my day job. However, after work, i spend nearly as many hours on my personal machine which is linux...and that machine runs Fedora 32 for the last several months (I recently switched over from 2 or so years of Linux Mint usage). When i started with Fedora 32 i started running KDE (and KDE is typically not a choice i tend to make for my DE)...Mind you, i had not run KDE for almost a decade because it used to be too heavy and slow to run for whatever old machines that i used as my personal laptops. But lately, KDE seems to be lighter...i won't go as far to say as light as, say, xfce (and to be fair i have not conducted any fair test between xfce and kde); but KDE nowadays is certainly way better than it used to be.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by stoolpigeon on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:06AM (#25430928)
My primary environment has been KDE on Fedora for the last 20 years or so.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by AntiImperialist on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:17AM (#25431035)
Wow, great! I have used Fedora for little less than a year some years ago, but then I wasn't happy with having to upgrade distros every 6 months.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by stoolpigeon on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:52AM (#25440736)
I don't upgrade with every version. Usually I do it on odd numbered releases. Sometimes I'll make an exception for something I really need but typically I don't have any issues at all with that approach.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by marcthe12 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:43PM (#25432676)
How is fedora on kde
Re:Kate is 20 years old by stoolpigeon on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:50AM (#25440724)
I use the KDE spin when I'm doing a fresh install. I find it to be very good. I tend to tweak my desktop a bit, I don't run with the straight defaults. The software for searching and installing packages seemed to not work well last time I checked but that was years ago- I tend to do all that with the dnf cli.

I have not moved to Wayland yet and it is not the default so that will be a big shift at some point. I also avoid nvidia. I used to use their cards but just got tired of the constant hassle.

I don't really try to push anyone towards Fedora or KDE. There are a lot of great choices when it comes to Linux but for me it's always been good. I run MacOS on my MBP for the few applications I can't run on Linux but that list has become really short. At this point I think Webex is the last thing that's holding me there. My next laptop may be a Lenovo.

Re:Kate is 20 years old by niclo on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:56AM (#25430844)
I have been using Manjaro KDE for several months now on my daily driver, I must say I like them both.

Main issues was finding few packages with a different name than the one used on Debian based distros.

I didn't make many changes on KDE since I'm not a huge fan of customization, it's fast and has a really good look by default, same things I love of few distros shipping with GNOME such as PopOS.

Re:Kate is 20 years old by jbboehr on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @02:46PM (#25434200)
I've been using Plasma on NixOS, switched from GNOME 3 because I was having terrible issues with the Nvidia drivers (it may have since been fixed). It's fine although I kinda miss gedit and the GNOME terminal emulator.
Re:Kate is 20 years old by grasseh on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:36AM (#25431869)
I'm using KDE on KUbuntu on my work laptop day-to-day for the last 18 months.

But I've been using it for longer than that as I do recall using it for half of my university too. I recall I was using MATE before switching.

Re:Kate is 20 years old by brnt on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:33AM (#25431839)
Fedora. After using Ubuntu (KDE Neon since it came out) since basically 4.10 I'm really liking it!
Re:Kate is 20 years old by ognarb on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:58AM (#25430858)
I use openSUSE tumbleweed with Plasma and the experience is really great.