Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by bayindirh on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @06:28AM
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Plasma on Wayland is a late beta yes, because Wayland itself is a late beta. I'd not use Wayland, yet if I want to use KDE, and if I need to install Wayland, I'd use another desktop environment.
I never restart KDE on my system, unless I upgrade my kernel, and restart the whole system.
Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by alxlaz on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:13AM
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Yeah, see, the fine print kills it. It's a "rock solid"* desktop, it does everything I want.
* Unless you use large network mounts, as long as you drag icons one at a time, for a fixed screen resolution, doesn't apply to Wayland, only until the next major rewrite...
Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by bayindirh on Thursday February 02, 2023 @05:55AM
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The fine print can be rewritten as follows:
*:Unless you use with Wayland backend, since Wayland is not mature enough.
Because my installation both has large network mounts, and I sometimes drag tons* of icons around.
Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by alxlaz on Thursday February 02, 2023 @06:12AM
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Yeah, the fine print also needs a "works on my machine" bit :-).
Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by bayindirh on Thursday February 02, 2023 @07:18AM
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Actually no. Because of my career, I deployed KDE to some very resource limited thin clients and it worked pretty well.
Also I talk with people who use KDE, and report bugs I encounter, or encourage people to report bugs when people I talk encounters them.
I'm pretty beyond "It works in my machine, so PEBKAC" at this point. I think using Linux for 20 years and managing a large fleet for 15 years helped on that front a lot. :-)
Re:Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment
by alxlaz on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:34AM
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Oh, a milion humble apologies, my liege, I was entirely unaware of your decades of experience. Surely machines work better under your touch, for they can see the twinkle of authority in your eye. I shall revise my erroneous configuration for surely my ability to hold it right is insufficient; indeed, my mastery of software has dwindled since the days when my patches were accepted in KDE 3.1 and I am truly at a loss when it comes to manipulating the advanced software of our days.
I can get my run of the mill KDE desktop to hang at startup by dragging a networked folder with a custom icon to the taskbar, then attempt to log in over a flaky network connection. Or if I attempt to drag too many application icons to it in the Wayland session. Don't get me wrong, I like it, I mean, I use it, but Plasma 5 is still, at best, late beta. My only hope is that, unlike its predecessor, it doesn't get abandoned and rewritten when it gets a semblance of stability.