Just wonder what DE the DEVS would recommend and why and also anyone else, currently I use Gnome just because I like how it looks
We recommend KDE Plasma.
- It’s our “default” DE.
- Most of the team members are using KDE Plasma.
- It has the most features and implements new wayland protocols quite fast.
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KDE for me, and Zsh
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kde is better than gnome to use.kde’s shortcoming is only system ui’s color is so low.
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DEVS - you mean the developers?
I write a lot of code in Perl and some in PHP, a lot of operations with log analysis. Of all the DEs, I settled on KDE many years ago. KDE has a great editor Kate, a great console, a great customizable appearance, a lot of Qt programs, problems are promptly discussed on the web.
I really liked Cinnamon, very lightweight and quite modern. I haven’t managed to get it to the state I need for my work yet.
In my personal opinion, the best DE is the one that gives maximum comfort with maximum functionality. For me it is KDE. For someone else it’s XFCE or Gnome or whatever. The power of a modern computer is quite enough to provide acceptable work of any modern DE.
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I’m a dev, and I prefer to use CachyOS with KDE. And I’m looking forward to stable Cosmic DE. Alphas are very promising
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I also recommend Plasma
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I’m not a dev, but I’d recommend a WM rather than a DE.
CachyOS with i3 is the stuff of my dreams for me. It’s X11-based (I know, security issues can arise, but that can be fixed), easy to configure for beginners (at least the basics) and is beginner-friendly with the syntax.
While I know KDE is the default for COS, I’ve had issues with it, and the same with GNOME. Plus, I already have an i3 config from when I was using Mint (before I switched to Cachy), and I didn’t want that to go to waste.
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I don’t know your other hardware specifications.
On my wife’s computer, i3 5th Gen, Intel graphics 4th Gen, 4 GiB RAM, v3 classified, CachyOS runs even with transparency and wobbly windows, with relatively low CPU and RAM usage. Bare metal, of course.
A not really serious question for @naim: During the system update, she has to do without watching videos because of the buffer overflow!
Could the realtime-lts kernel help?
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I don’t know your other hardware specifications.
I just so happened to rock an R9, 3060 LHR and 32GB of DDR4.
Can you grab logs? If it’s a bug in 6.13 then using the LTS kernel may help.
There is no error, everything is fine.
Please excuse me, I shouldn’t have pinged you. I don’t really like doing that because it can be annoying.
My question was a joke.
During a system update, my wife, with her i3, 4 MB RAM, has to do without watching videos. Hence the question about the rt kernel.
She uses the cachyos-lts kernel, but the cachyos 13.6 kernel also runs.
Off topic:
I really had trouble getting her to switch from Mint to arch-based.
The first attempt failed, too colorful, too loud, too shrill.
The second attempt was successful.
She only reads here, but I can tell you that after I explained arch-basics to her, she loves CachyOS and the browser.
Cachy starts with the terminal. From there she does everything, including restarting or shutting down.
We thank the developer, the kernel specialist and all the freaks in the background.
Oh I see, no the RT kernel will not help with that.
Install enhancedh264ify plugin in the browser for youtube and make sure hardware video decoding is working. Playback should be smooth even with busy system. But maybe 4gb ram is the problem.
Thank you for your answers.
4 GB RAM minus onboard graphics is very tight. The PC was mid-range at the time and was meant to be for me. But now the components were so cheap (Đ„ 350) that I built the PC twice. I saved on the case, power supply and graphics, the power supplies gave up after a few years. I upgraded to 8 GB RAM and used it for a long time.
The download rate is about 5 GiB, but can fluctuate a lot, which is why the first thing I have to do is adjust the timeout value.
When you first discover during the initial installation of an almost unknown operating system that you don’t need to change the default settings… Thank you for your foresight!
The CPU reaches its limits when there is a system update or two browsers open.
RAM is in the upper third at full load, and about 1.3 GiB when idle.
I think that’s surprisingly little for the full enjoyment of KDE.
The user knows nothing other than Linux and KDE, only Arch-Based is new territory. But she understands the concept. After familiarizing herself with the OS and some Arch basics, she has switched to using the terminal, with all its advantages, as a basis.
Conclusion: There are no problems, apart from acceptable luxury problems.
The fact that the future-oriented CachyOS team supports old hardware is commendable. Thank you for that!
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