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MX KDE is so much fun! I hope a day comes that MX KDE officially becomes a distro.
It's pure heaven using it as is, an official distro would be heavenly!

It's nice to see someone happy...

Sparky wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:25 pm MX KDE is so much fun! I hope a day comes that MX KDE officially becomes a distro.
It's pure heaven using it as is, an official distro would be heavenly!

Agreed, I love it. Although I'm starting to play with dwm now and that's a lot of fun too.

I recently installed KDE/Plasma Debian 10 and it is a nice DE. It's surprising that it only used about 500 mb ram on a fresh boot, making it one of the lightest Linux desktops. I remember not long ago when everyone said how much they loved KDE but it used too much ram. How times have changed :)

Thing is, even if it seems to use less RAM, the fancy effects do take a toll in performance. Opening a program is a bit slower than for XFCE.

In VM, the sluggishness is noticeable. You can turn them all off, in which case it's not as interesting anymore.

But on real metal, it really feels considerably lighter than it used to be.

I find the time to open a program in KDE imperceptible as compared to XFCE. I do have relatively fast hardware. On slower hardware I am sure that is the case and KDE may not be the best choice for those machines.

Sparky wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 5:25 pm I hope a day comes that MX KDE officially becomes a distro.

I hope this never happens, if KDE would be the only flavor. I tried KDE couple times, I was lost, completely clueless where is what, or how to do anything. I always used Xfce only. Xfce means home for me.

I remember from ms/windows time, what bothered me the most was, that they always moved things around with new version and I couldn't find things any more, or do them the way I used to. I hated this with a passion. With every new windows version I had to start learning things again. What a pain and a waste of time! When I tried KDE I felt the same.

If MX ever decides to go KDE only, without also Xfce, I would probably be forced to move somewhere else, which would be painful for me. So, in all my selfishness, I truly hope this never happens, even if KDE would use only 25% of resources Xfce uses. Who cares about few extra % of resources used, even older computers are now powerful enough...

If MX ever does switch to KDE as the default DE the first thing I would do after an install (and after running the initial updates) is install Xfce from MXPI -> Popular Apps -> Desktop Environments then select it as my default on the login screen so I could feel at home again.

JayM wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2020 10:45 pm If MX ever does switch to KDE as the default DE the first thing I would do after an install (and after running the initial updates) is install Xfce from MXPI -> Popular Apps -> Desktop Environments then select it as my default on the login screen so I could feel at home again.

That won't happen, but there might be a KDE version in the works... who knows...

Some of us know! But there are absolutely no plans to drop the XFCE version. KDE would be an addition to the MX line.