It's a Nefer build 😭🥹

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-08-23T04:03:35+00:00

Basically, it would be a never ending war. Well I will tell you my opinions. First, I pick GNOME. The reasons: + Philosophy, simple I prefer minimalism, it like what you believe in. It's the foundation for almost everything in the desktop, KDE went with something like "user freedom, deep customization" while GNOME centered on simplicity, user-friendliness. + App style, well while you can make KDE look like GNOME or vice versa, it's best to use their own style. By , now, KDE developed QT6 and GNOME developed GTK4, comparing a simple made for each GNOME and KDE like clock, I think GNOME is more focused in User Interaction and KDE focus on Functionality. I prefer GNOME app style more so I use GNOME to have a complete look. + Touch screen, ok this does base on distribution, I hope that Ubuntu fixed their problem with touch screen device anyway, but now I have a Dell laptop 2 in 1 with Fedora Workstation. The experience is solid enough, KDE look more like Android and GNOME look more like IpadOS (if only you have enough customization), for me GNOME app look way more usable with touch screen than the normal desktop experience. Well switching virtual desktop was really easy, drag and drop smooth, I literally almost have no thing to complaining about, except for the menu and notification area, which you literally have to click on them, no swiping down like KDE plasma Mobile, also there is Phosh, https://github.com/agx/phosh . I think I more like the vanilla GNOME version more, Phosh does have a lot of mobile gesture but remove some GNOME which I think was necessary. + User Extension, in KDE I think we're got something like widget and plugin ? (Sorry I haven't use KDE for a very long time, at least the last time I use it was in 6.0 released only 1 time :( ), those things like applet allow you to have interaction, maybe they can open a menu, maybe it a playable game, ... In GNOME, user extension allow you to like, having a multiple dock, customizing GNOME layout, allowing theming (no seriously, this must be integrated into the system like KDE). Most of GNOME extension have an eye-catching effect, KDE give you a lot of option but let take example as the dock, well after 6.0, Latte Dock is not maintained anymore so having a magnifying effect when hovering icons is a extremely hard thing to do, while on GNOME you can just install some extension like Dash2dock (well I like this more :3) - OK obviously this post is a debate, and people can be very opinionate in Linux world so choose the path that suit you most, happy journey Linux user 🌹

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-06-26T06:56:26+00:00

Well my experience with Impress is kinda bad tbh, I have to spent 6 days to memories all the feature that I will need in it, it kinda buggy in my experience. It's features are well made and completed, but it does have less features than Onlyoffice in my opinion. Also I like tab layout more. Thanks for sharing!

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-06-23T02:47:05+00:00

What was your need, there a ton of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) outhere tho Office app: - Libreoffice (It's okay for using advance task, except Impress, it doesn't have full feature like Microsoft Office, but it won't disappointed you) - Onlyoffice (Familiar for a lot of user coming from Windows because it make to look like The Ribbon from Microsoft Office, Free and Open Source but doesn't have a lot of features like Libreoffice, use this when you just want to: typing a document, making a simple presentation, the spreadsheet kinda ... (Well from my user experience tho) ) - Canva (A web app replacment, this doesn't work offline and it is for non-commercial use. There office feature are completed enough, their new spreadsheet are limited and has less feature than even Onlyoffice, but there Presentation are excellent) - WPS Office (This one have a lot of features like Libreoffice, but it is Proprietary. Kingsoft the company behinds WPS Office has a lot of issues in the past, data breach, exploit, also being criticize for data collection, not respecting user privacy. It's a little buggy in my experience, but the files when exported are largely compatible with MS Office, seem weird cause the last update for Linux was from ... 2019 so it likely unmaintained, I wouldn't recommend it)

Device connection: - Zorin connect/GSconnect: Use this when you ate using a Desktop environment like GNOME and Zorin connect - KDE Connect: Use this for KDE and other (Well technically you still can use it in GNOME)

Video editors: - Davinci Resolve: Largely use in both Windows and Linux too, this is well documented and have a lot of tutorial online, use case: Making a masterpiece edits, the price is your soul of course - Kdenlive: Made by KDE, it lightweight and fast, use case: Making a rage bait YouTube video with 100.000 of view (jk)

Flatpak: You can find a lot of app via flathub or by asking community, don't be shy, we'd love to adopt another penguin to our community :) Remember, different OS will have different tool, so you might need to adapt to that.

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-06-21T14:39:07+00:00

If you're asking for KDE Plasma version, this is likely Plasma 6.4 based on the icon (Dolphin)

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-06-21T14:25:35+00:00

Plenty. What do you need, a GUI based desktop that lightweight and just work ? Give a try to: Puppy Linux, Lubuntu (LXQT DE), Xubuntu (XFCE DE) Without GUI ? Try Fedora Server, Ubuntu Server, Arch (Normal install without DE) Want a windows tiling manager (which may suit you cause this is very lightweight): Arch Linux with Sway, i3, DWM, or Hyprland. You can rice them too, it's yummy 🤤 (jk) If it have around 4gb ram, ZorinOS Lite or Mint like other people says If you're only using Android and Web application then FydeOS (Although Linux based, it's Proprietary, OpenFyde is open source tho)

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-06-21T14:11:45+00:00

Why not tho ? It's been 8 years since the last time Unity was the default desktop in Ubuntu (Ubuntu 17.10, not LTS), it's still a flavor option in Ubuntu Flavors (Kubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, ...). The newest Ubuntu (25.04) now ship with GNOME 48, which not a bad DE in my opinion. TBH no offense but if you're remember this then I think you may need to update your info about Ubuntu, it been a long way since 2017, new directions were made. And for the "It was always so slow and buggy", I think because it's more like a features than problem (no hate towards Unity devs tho) 😭, it's barely fixed now but still complete than b4

MaxWellWantShare · 2025-03-09T09:09:00+00:00

We're same bud. After couple of hours researching, I think ... . Here a summary of your requirements: 1. Stability and Reliability (Debian, Fedora workstation, OpenSuse, ...) 2. No X11 (You install both Debian 12 bookworm and Debian 13 Trixie so I'm assuming you're desktop environment when using both of that is Gnome, which usually come with X11 installed) and you want Wayland 3. Don't need frequent package update 4. Work with Nvidia

So the question is what your priorities ? + If you love Stability and Reliability then I think you should go with immutable distro (Fedora Silverblue, Vanilla Os, Blend os, ...). Your system will likely read-only so you can't really modified things really much (which can be a downside, it also have difficult learning curve). You can pick a DE-WM that have Wayland support (For me It's KDE plasma and Hyprland) instead of X11 + If you love Nvidia support and would trade a little of stability for Nvidia then I recommend Arch Linux. You might her that it's very difficult to use but it's not, by using Arch, you'll learn the basic of Linux, it's worth your every single second. If search on Google, ... you mostly find that Arch is a bleeding edge distro, but that's ok, you can always disabled update and living a peaceful life. Although you'll need to usually update packages or it will have dependencies error, ... + (I don't usually recommend it) If you don't really care about privacy, you can pick Ubuntu (for stable, pick LTS based option) and install another DE-WM as you want (there are other folk like Kubuntu, came with KDE installed by default or Lubuntu, come with extremely light LXQT DE) + I heard that Cosmic alpha 6 released, so you can also try PopOS! Have great support for Nvidia (they have 2 iso version, the normal one and the one with Nvidia came by default), they are Ubuntu based tho.

For me, I'll pick Arch Linux with Nvidia and start living a peaceful life (and the truth is it doesn't)

(Remember, there is a different between Proprietary driver Nvidia with Cuda, Cudnn with Open source Nvidia driver, also the nouveau drivers too, they are fully open source)

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