I love Gnome, for me… their UI is the most beautiful of any desktop OS. But I had to move to KDE Plasma primarily for all the gaming related features that come out first on Plasma. That led me to see just how much flexibility I was missing.
Now I greatly value both desktop environments, both visions are valid, but they cater completely different minded users.
Please share an example podcast title & author.
It would be useful if you could compare it to current FOSS alternatives. I mean, why this instead of say… Ironcalc, collabora, etc.
It will depend on how upstream (Fedora Silverblue) implements it. From my understanding, it will straight up replace it, and remove SDDM.
KDE Linux will probably have it first.
Edit: nevermind. https://invent.kde.org/kde-linux/kde-linux/-/merge_requests/350
My biggest issue: no support for rdp
Pet peeve: In immutable distros you can’t change the background image… and I happen to strongly dislike Aurora’s artwork. I run Aurora on my work laptop, and my login screen looks like some kind of a bizarre childish acid trip. Embarrassing to say the least, but the distro itself is top notch.
In Bazzite it’s usually between same day and 24 hours, since the build process is fully automated.
I agree 100%. Gnome is gorgeous. I switched to KDE because they get gaming related features first, I assume because of the Valve collab.
You won’t lose it. They’ll just turn it off by default for new users.
That’s exactly what’s happening.
I use an M2 Caddy with a 1TB NVME SSD to boot into Aurora Linux on my work laptop.
The laptop keeps it’s Windows license intact and when I need to move to a new laptop, it’s plug and play work.
CUPS works with every printer in my office out of the box.
I am the user with less IT support tickets, I don’t require Windows, Office nor Adobe licenses.
IT is happy, I’m happy. Every day is pure bliss.
Faustina, it’s the FOSS alternative to the Kindle’s default font.
now that Affinity is coming to Linux
Wait, what?
Edit: I’ve only found this and if this site were to be trusted, I would take it with a grain of salt. https://techcentral.co.za/affinity-for-linux-canvas-next-big-move-could-reshape-the-desktop-software-market/274861/
Agreed, if you grew using another program, switching is hard unless it’s UX/UI is superb.
When I ditched Adobe, Inkscape was a breeze. GIMP is hard AF and Krita a bit easier but it doesn’t have the features I need. I ended up using Photopea, and now I’ve tried Affinity and it’s the best Photoshop alternative I’ve tried yet.
Collabora is looking pretty good so far. Still a few rough edges but easier than any other FOSS office software.
Great video, probably the best I’ve seen from LTT.
The heroes behind NVK and much more.
I bet it was done on purpose, to discourage companies and drive them to their paid services. Since it’s purpose is to serve as a stable testing build.
Office 365 has desktop clients too. In the case of Collabora context, if they give that away without a subscription, it can generate interest in their cloud services at a sustainable cost, since a large part of the desktop client codebase uses the same tech found in the web client.
Since Valve’s midas touch, KDE Plasma has been pure gold for gaming. I love it.