CB WrightSo for the last month and a half I have been using my Linux partition exclusively, even to play games! Steam and Proton are that reliable for me. Yesterday, after jumping over to the W11 partition and marveling at how much it didn't work, I decided it was FINALLY TIME TO LEAVE WINDOWS BEHIND so I now have no windows OS on any of my personal machines.
AT THE SAME TIME I was getting frustrated with KDE Neon's problems with WINE (I use crossover for a few things and when it tries to download deb packages it frequently comes up with conflicts, because it focuses on the latest KDE/Plasma releases pretty much to the exclusion of all else). So I started looking for another distro, and a lot of searching came up with Fedora, of all things, having a real good KDE version...
... which surprised me - I'd always thought of it as being primarily Gnome, with a very committed bunch of KDE enthusiasts maintaining their own spin, but it seems KDE leveled up over there. So I figured I'd try it. Now I need to learn dnf, which is a lot harder to say than apt but it's also a lot funnier so it evens out.
Jeffrey T. Darlington@ubersoft KDE has definitely improved on Fedora (my main distro), but I'll admit I still run Gnome on my local. The Steam Deck defaults to KDE, though, so I'm thinking of making the switch.
dnf is basically yum by a different name. Not sure why they changed the name, because "yum" is just as fun to say as "apt" and not as clunky as "dnf".
baibold@ubersoft KDE Neon was always more of a dev test/tech demo kind of distro. If you're looking for smooth KDE, I like EndeavorOS for Arch-based or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed....though Tumbleweed comes with the warning that OpenSUSE distros are very different from the debian/red hat derivatives.
@baibold so when you're in a terminal window and you want to use kate to edit a file you just type "kate filename" and it opens up. You make whatever changes you want, then when you try to save the file it checks permissions and throws up a password dialog if you need elevated permissions to change the file.
OpenSUSE declared this a security risk so they removed it. They didn't actually screw up kate-the-application, but I hate this change so much it provokes me to hyberbole.
KDE: Admittance of kio-admin into openSUSE
kio-admin is a KDE component which allows to perform privileged file operations in GUI applications. A first request to add this package to openSUSE had been rejected by the SUSE security team in 2022. After careful reevaluation of the situation, this is about to change. This post explores the background of this development.
Old Fucking Punk@ubersoft IBM (owner of Red Hat) has steadily been becoming less FOSS friendly, so maybe less money for Fedora. On the plus side, they've been laying off Red Hat devs, so maybe adding to Fedora devs.