Yep, soooon, but really it doesn’t make or break anything for me.
X11 (to me) just means a project already works and there’s nothing to fix.
Tbh, if Mint had a KDE version, I’d use it instantly, no idea why they want to dedicate resources to remaking the same desktop everyone else already makes, but worse.
Gdm is slow and buggy comparatively, imo. Gnome has always lagged behind on stability and speed for me, and Cinnamon doesn’t do much to fix those issues for its simplicity.
For its simplicity, were I to choose less features and the minimal design Cinnamon goes for, I’d rather just have XFCE instead. Similar look and function, more mature, if older.
This really comes out if you try KDE on a lower-powered system like an ARM phone. KDE-touch is way more grounded and quick than the gnome solutions.
Mint is a repo with a few packages (including a config file that removes snap, based) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s KDE packaging sucks. Source: installed Plasma on Mint once. Surprisingly usable, though. Also, some dependency brings in a fontconfig file that makes all fonts made by google ugly as fuck. Forgot filename but it had a ChromiumOS copyright header, go figure yourself.
Linux Mint, maker of ‘Slow XFCE’ aka Cinnamon
Aren’t we switching to Wayland later this year? Not an area of my expertise but I’ve heard about it
Yep, soooon, but really it doesn’t make or break anything for me.
X11 (to me) just means a project already works and there’s nothing to fix.
Tbh, if Mint had a KDE version, I’d use it instantly, no idea why they want to dedicate resources to remaking the same desktop everyone else already makes, but worse.
Fair. I don’t have big opinions about desktop environments, at least not yet. What gets you so excited about KDE?
Gdm is slow and buggy comparatively, imo. Gnome has always lagged behind on stability and speed for me, and Cinnamon doesn’t do much to fix those issues for its simplicity.
For its simplicity, were I to choose less features and the minimal design Cinnamon goes for, I’d rather just have XFCE instead. Similar look and function, more mature, if older.
This really comes out if you try KDE on a lower-powered system like an ARM phone. KDE-touch is way more grounded and quick than the gnome solutions.
Mint is a repo with a few packages (including a config file that removes snap, based) for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s KDE packaging sucks. Source: installed Plasma on Mint once. Surprisingly usable, though. Also, some dependency brings in a fontconfig file that makes all fonts made by google ugly as fuck. Forgot filename but it had a ChromiumOS copyright header, go figure yourself.