Just tried out the new Agama installer for OpenSUSE Leap 16, and overall, Iโm impressed. The setup process is clean and modern, but I did run into a small bug in the network settings โ when connecting to Wi-Fi, the toggle that determines whether the system actually uses that network is broken. Clicking it eventually kicked me out of the session completely.
#OpenSUSE #Leap16 #Linux #AgamaInstaller #Merlin #Cockpit #CinnamonDesktop #FOSS #LinuxCommunity #SysAdmin
No, itโs not a re-post. Thatโs not KDE Plasma, nor is it GNOME. Hardcase is back on Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop, and I daresay heโs better than ever!
No, x11 isnโt as secure as Wayland, but #LinuxMint is faster, simpler, and easier to use on my old 2014 MacBook Air than #Fedora-based #UltramarineLinux. No more nags about a โtainted kernel.โ
P.S. - Thatโs not Plank. ๐
One of the challenges with #debian #stable is that the DE will be static for its lifetime. With #kde and #trixie, that is mostly 6.3.5 and 25.04 for the various elements and framework.
This may become an issue over the lifetime of #trixie, as #kde development happens pretty fast.
I like #CinnamonDesktop quite a lot, but do find it a tad slower than other DEs on the same hardware. Plus I struggle with the file manager, Nemo, being very slow with lots of files and also occasionally messing up the columns.
No environment is perfect. You just need to find the one that ticks most of the boxes, and provides you something that doesn't impact your workflow too much. At the end of the day we're supposed to use our computers to do stuff, not mess about with different distros and DEs :)
I will give #kde at least a week of real usage, and see how I feel at the end of it.
I've found #debian #bookworm with the #xfce desktop to be incredibly stable. Uptime in the months, it has been my main 24/7 desktop.
I have moved to #trixie now that it's 'almost here' and am trialling the #kde desktop. Whilst it looks good and is performant, the stability of #plasma6 isn't there yet, some features are not yet available that were in qt5, and I've had a couple of widgets crash.
I've also noted a few of the apps I ran in #bookworm are not available in #trixie, so I may need to look into more #docker images to run those.
The #avidemux app will not compile against #qt6 on #trixie for some reason, so I've had to compile that against #qt5, where it seems to work fine. Need this as #dvbcut is one of the apps I use that is not available in #trixie
Overall, #trixie is looking to be a stable release. I'm just not convinced I'll stay with #kde and may revert to #xfce again, or perhaps try the #CinnamonDesktop again.
@Lu
Thank you for the pointer!
Looking at the evolution i feel that users act more and more on their dissatisfaction with #CinnamonDesktop.
I note that:
* the number of downloads of #MATEDesktop increased 50% in a year;
* the number of downloads of #EDGEDesktop decreased 50% in a year.
#desktopEnvironments #desktopEnvironment #distros #Linux #LinuxDistributions #distributions
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