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[simmerskool]

Zorin Pro v17 on VMware as GuestOS. I don't run it that often, few days a month, but when I do it always works for me. This hardware does not run win11 (absent an install hack) so I expect to be running Linux more and more... I ran Centos for about 10 years but that was more than 10 years ago, so I'm linux_rusty+.

 

[TuxTalk]

Zorin Pro v17 on VMware as GuestOS. I don't run it that often, few days a month, but when I do it always works for me. This hardware does not run win11 (absent an install hack) so I expect to be running Linux more and more... I ran Centos for about 10 years but that was more than 10 years ago, so I'm linux_rusty+.

Made the switch and still no regret. It is stable , it works no BSOD hahaha

 

[TuxTalk]

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Pro

Back to Fedora 40 Workstation KDE 6.1 Plasma

 

[simmerskool]

Back to Fedora 40 Workstation KDE 6.1 Plasma

so your bouncing around from distro to distro, already1

 

[SeriousHoax]

so your bouncing around from distro to distro, already1

Linux is all about distro hopping

 

[rashmi]

Linux is all about distro hopping

Every penguin's spirit animal is a kangaroo!

 

[TuxTalk]

so your bouncing around from distro to distro, already1

Yes and no, i love Gnome but i really can not get used at the font rendering they use, if you compare to KDE.
I really tried Ubuntu Gnome but the reading is for me almost impossible. Fedora KDE is simply beautiful and no issues to read.
So back to Fedora.

 

[simmerskool]

Yes and no, i love Gnome but i really can not get used at the font rendering they use, if you compare to KDE.
I really tried Ubuntu Gnome but the reading is for me almost impossible. Fedora KDE is simply beautiful and no issues to read.
So back to Fedora.

IIRC my long ago Centos used KDE. Right now not sure what I'm using in Zorin, I'd have to boot it up...

 

[wat0114]

MX Linux 23.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Yes and no, i love Gnome but i really can not get used at the font rendering they use, if you compare to KDE.
I really tried Ubuntu Gnome but the reading is for me almost impossible. Fedora KDE is simply beautiful and no issues to read.
So back to Fedora.

From what I read online many of Fedora's KDE related issues are due to Fedora not paying enough attention to their other DE spins, not the fault of KDE per se. GNOME is their priority and fixes reach that build quickly while may get ignored for KDE or take a long time to fix.
Maybe you should give Fedora's XFCE build a try since XFCE is rarely updated. But Fedora's XFCE looks very basic unlike some other distros which have their own theme applied to make it look decent.

 

[TuxTalk]

From what I read online many of Fedora's KDE related issues are due to Fedora not paying enough attention to their other DE spins, not the fault of KDE per se. GNOME is their priority and fixes reach that build quickly while may get ignored for KDE or take a long time to fix.
Maybe you should give Fedora's XFCE build a try since XFCE is rarely updated. But Fedora's XFCE looks very basic unlike some other distros which have their own theme applied to make it look decent.

I have no issues with KDE, just with Gnome and Ubuntu. Fedora KDE is already updated 2x , so they for sure work on it.
KDE in combination with Fedora is the perfect match for me.

Breeze is amazing !

 

[SeriousHoax]

I have no issues with KDE, just with Gnome and Ubuntu. Fedora KDE is already updated 2x , so they for sure work on it.
KDE in combination with Fedora is the perfect match for me.

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Breeze is amazing !

Yeah, KDE is amazing. It was a bit heavier in the past but nowadays it's also light.

 

[wat0114]

I have no issues with KDE, just with Gnome and Ubuntu. Fedora KDE is already updated 2x , so they for sure work on it.
KDE in combination with Fedora is the perfect match for me.

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Breeze is amazing !

Nice. My favorite though is Gently

 

[TuxTalk]

Sadly had to distro hop, went to Manjaro.
Fedora did something with the kernel which makes Firefox and Thundebird boot extremely slow when VPN is enabled.
Weird thing is, with Mullvad no issues but with PIA and NordVPN this problem arise. Since i paid for 3 years for PIA i dont want to pay for any other VPN.

DNF and Firefox take extreemly long to start when VPN active on f40?

Hi I upgraded from 39 to 40 and have an odd issue. I’m new to linux diagnosis. dnf upgrade takes 5mins at-least to load/start. However once its pulled the updates they DL at normal speed; Firefox takes 5mins to start. (Once its started pages load quite quickly) I discovered the issues are...

discussion.fedoraproject.org

Firefox takes ages to launch on my fedora 40 | Firefox Kpeɖeŋunaƒe | Mozilla ƒe Support

support.mozilla.org

So made the switch to Manjaro a rolling distro. No issues at all with Manjaro and PIA Vpn.

I run Manjaro with KDE Plasma 6 and its fast, really fast. So maybe this switch is just pure luck.

Installed some themes and currently use the Breeze Dark theme.

 

[SeriousHoax]

Installed openSUSE Tumbleweed last night which is known to be the most stable rolling release distro. Dual booted with Windows 11. Everything is working fine as expected, didn't need to disable secure boot to install.
I'm surprised how fast the system shuts down. Literally within 1 second or even less than that (this will probably be true for some other distros also if not many things are running in the backgroud).
openSUSE's YaST which is like a Windows's Control Panel equivalent is a massively helpful tool. But openSUSE Tumbleweed is not fully ready out of the box. For example, it doesn't have codecs to run media files which has to be downloaded from a different unofficial repository (details is available in openSUSE's wiki). Other alternative would be to download all media players from Flatpak which I don't like. Anyway, it's running great

 

[TuxTalk]

Installed openSUSE Tumbleweed last night which is known to be the most stable rolling release distro. Dual booted with Windows 11. Everything is working fine as expected, didn't need to disable secure boot to install.
I'm surprised how fast the system shuts down. Literally within 1 second or even less than that (this will probably be true for some other distros also if not many things are running in the backgroud).
openSUSE's YaST which is like a Windows's Control Panel equivalent is a massively helpful tool. But openSUSE Tumbleweed is not fully ready out of the box. For example, it doesn't have codecs to run media files which has to be downloaded from a different unofficial repository (details is available in openSUSE's wiki). Other alternative would be to download all media players from Flatpak which I don't like. Anyway, it's running great
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I have ACPI errors when using this when booting.
No issues with Ubuntu, Fedora and Manjaro,

 

[TuxTalk]

 

[lokamoka820]

Installed openSUSE Tumbleweed last night which is known to be the most stable rolling release distro. Dual booted with Windows 11. Everything is working fine as expected, didn't need to disable secure boot to install.
I'm surprised how fast the system shuts down. Literally within 1 second or even less than that (this will probably be true for some other distros also if not many things are running in the backgroud).
openSUSE's YaST which is like a Windows's Control Panel equivalent is a massively helpful tool. But openSUSE Tumbleweed is not fully ready out of the box. For example, it doesn't have codecs to run media files which has to be downloaded from a different unofficial repository (details is available in openSUSE's wiki). Other alternative would be to download all media players from Flatpak which I don't like. Anyway, it's running great
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openSUSE is really an awesome distro, it has a very detailed wiki, and officially supported by software and hardware developers, great choice.

 

[TuxTalk]

Got this now running as smooth as butter in the sun :

 

[harlan4096]

Please edits and hide Your IPs in the wlan data, thanks.