4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by usrn on Thursday July 07, 2022 @01:07PM (#32016574)

You're not crazy, whatever Redhat decides eventually becomes popular because that's what people get paid to work with. It's very similar to the situation with Windows.

Also, I think most desktop Linux users that care probably use a small WM rather than either Gnome or KDE. Gnome also gets a lot of attention because GTK is easier to work with than QT.

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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by skeletal88 on Thursday July 07, 2022 @04:52PM (#32019232)

I care but I don't understand the craziness about tiling wms, xfce etc. I like the convenience that KDE provides for me.

To me the guys who casually always mention "btw yeah I'm using this tiling wm and ..." are just smugly showing off, like vegans or people who own too expensive bicycles.

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Re:4th Gen KDE Slimbook – Linux Ultrabook with an AMD Ryzen ... by int_19h on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:48PM (#32021650)

I don't think tiling WMs and Xfce can be lumped together like that. Xfce is very much a traditional DE with "batteries included"; it's more lightweight than Gnome and KDE, but still way closer to them than most lightweight WMs. I'd say it's closest to MATE (which, to remind, is itself a fork of Gnome from before it went nuts).

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