My Keyoxide Idendity:
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Hahaha no that was not my point.
Dont install random software from .deb packages etc.
You can use
So many options. There is an issue with 3rd party packaging, but at least for common software it is often better to use those, than a not updated official binary.
I explained KDE Apps.
COSMIC is fine and a really great project. But they are simply lacking like 10 years of development behind KDE.
Not gonna say that once ready it could simply be better, faster, more streamlined, no cruft. But yeah, not in the next few years.
Interesting, thanks!
I know Fedora has some meta-theme package, they should add that to Workstation too.
It includes the breeze themes.
Then a flatpak env var or /etc/environment could work
LXQt is basically the up to date version of LXDE. Dont bother with LXDE I would say, use LXQt.
Lubuntu has the best theming.
Just download the ISO, flash it to a thumbdrive and install again.
apt search lxde
Is the better start
Already did that. Those apps are themed horribly and are thus unusable. Afaik there is also no scaling setting for 3rd party toolkits in the COSMIC settings.
Ark can do more, like compress in detail, from the filemanager.
Gwenview is an image editor with many basic features you want.
Spectacle has another image editing feature, for some reason KDE has 4 implementations of that, Spectacle has the only good one. This can be used standalone with the Dolphin extension “annotate it”.
Dolphin is waaay better than COSMIC files, absolutely no comparison. If it is just a customizable GUI, custom icons for everything, extensions.
I dont ger Thunar. pcmanfm-qt is the best alternative to Dolphin I know. At least the theming works on KDE, may be different on other desktops
The thing is I need to configure, compile, package, sign and then layer, because I am on Fedora Atomic (and because that is the correct way)
And I dont know many of the steps in the middle.
A Github runner for this would be great, like a template where people can choose what kernel they need, which then packages it.
Tbh as long as COSMIC lacks 1:1 theming support for KDE apps, it is not usable.
I love KDE Apps. There are also some GTK Apps I use, but the big ones (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle Editor) are all KDE.
Thanks for the insight
On an Intel machine, this makes me want to compile my kernel so much
I should learn how to compile RPM kernels on COPR
Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.
I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel…
Yeah why need a 3rd party client if Qt works on all platforms too…
Yes this is really wtf.
Linux even has a webview. KDE has QtWebengine, GNOME has WebkitGTK.
There also is Tauri, which seems to be a way better solution.
I rely on 4 Electron apps and hate it.
(Signal, MullvadVPN, Nextcloud, FreeTube)
I am pretty certain those are the reason why my RAM use is to huge, 6GB with no open apps!
ChromeOS is so nice because all these optimized apps simply really run in the same browser. Android the same.
I think Windows (and MacOS?)are also pretty good there… because they have marketshare.
But well, did you know Office 365 for Mac is 5,2GB???
Yes ok, so that is kinda fine.
The app is still huge. And using separate accounts is probably a workflowbreaker for many.
But good that at least that works kinda :)
Yeah probably. Installing Mint and GNOME or Plasma on there will be waay easier.
Haha no, not even KDE devs use it.
I am on Fedora Kinoite and happy. But this was about Ubuntu, and Fedora simply serves a different use case. Kubuntu and KDE Neon are both Ubuntu LTS.
That only works on mutable distributions, it installs random binaries to the system that are not visible to the package manager and not removable (afaik?) And it also doesnt resolve dependencies (afaik).
So while source code is cool, it has all the above disadvantages