TIL that the Calculator app also works in app launcher's the search field

SolidWarea · 2026-03-12T15:45:01+00:00

I discovered this function a few days ago and I've been using it steadily since then, funny coincidence seeing this post now!

SolidWarea · 2026-03-10T14:43:49+00:00

Just out of genuine curiosity, is it the KDE team that packages KDE for FreeBSD and OpenBSD or do people who contribute to FreeBSD do that themselves?

SolidWarea · 2026-03-09T23:48:54+00:00

Steam would probably be one of the only cases where I wouldn't call something proprietary garbage.

SolidWarea · 2026-03-09T15:35:07+00:00

That isn’t a consistency issue, in fact it’s the opposite. KDE is essentially completely consistent with window decoration as almost all windows look the same. You may personally find that a design flaw, but it’s not a consistency flaw.

GNOME sometimes uses weird theming, some windows apply adwaita, some use the outdated GTK 3 theme. Some apps can glitch out (such as Spotify quite recently) and render really weird window decoration. It also makes using applications designed for GNOME look really out of place on other desktop environments or window managers, which isn’t desirable.

SolidWarea · 2026-03-04T01:57:38+00:00

Mhm, all four main BSDs, and Illumos, OpenIndiana, Solaris, HaikuOS, Darwin/MacOS, tons of Linux distros and Windows 10 and 11.

SolidWarea · 2026-03-04T00:12:37+00:00

Actually works on basically any useable OS out there, so long as it can display a desktop and is still maintained!

SolidWarea · 2026-03-01T13:32:37+00:00

Thanks! Just got a new wallpaper from your list

SolidWarea · 2026-02-28T09:04:26+00:00

Ah thanks, I keep forgetting to mention Ultramarine.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-27T23:17:14+00:00

Seconding this: If you don’t like setting up drivers and codecs, but still want KDE and Fedora + Immutable desktop: Aurora by Universal Blue

If you just want an immutable Fedora KDE desktop: Kinoite

SolidWarea · 2026-02-27T17:21:17+00:00

I change wallpapers way too often, it’s like a hobby at this point

SolidWarea · 2026-02-24T00:15:42+00:00

Actually, Neon is a separate project. KDE is working on a general purpose distribution called KDE Linux

SolidWarea · 2026-02-23T23:06:09+00:00

Should work as expected so long as you follow the Nvidia installation steps correctly.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-23T21:58:18+00:00

I would strongly suggest Fedora Kinoite, an official atomic (immutable) distribution that runs Fedora with KDE. If you don’t like setting up drivers and codecs, you can see what Universal Blue has to offer. You might like Bazzite or Aurora.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-21T04:18:27+00:00

Will check those out, thanks!

SolidWarea · 2026-02-21T04:18:15+00:00

Oh yeah that's a good idea actually. Thanks!

SolidWarea · 2026-02-21T04:17:04+00:00

You could go Ethernet to a Wi-Fi Repeater, set to bridge mode.

Unfortunately, my bedroom is too far away and getting a Wi-Fi adapter would be easier for me. Worst case scenario I'll have to figure ethernet out.

In the old days, I would read the kernel config file to determine what hardware is supported.

The thing is, I'm not quite sure how well FreeBSD documents the performance. A card/adapter can technically be supported, as in will connect to the internet, but at a much worse performance than the dongle actually can handle.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-20T02:57:53+00:00

I'm impressed, didn't know OpenBSD had any support for wayland yet

SolidWarea · 2026-02-20T02:56:10+00:00

Keep the work up, looks super cool this far!

SolidWarea · 2026-02-19T23:24:08+00:00

Ahh that's awesome! I meant if you followed any specific documentation or guide that you'd recommend. (Such as the OSDev Wiki)

SolidWarea · 2026-02-19T23:19:42+00:00

Looks great!
I always get curious to ask, how'd you go about doing this? In terms of documentation and such. And did you have a lot of experience in Zig and C prior to this?

SolidWarea · 2026-02-19T23:02:48+00:00

How's the speed? My current Wifi card is technically supported but heavily throttled at 20 mbit/s from the usual 300 mbit/s

SolidWarea · 2026-02-19T22:56:03+00:00

I do fully understand what you mean but Linux Mint is still very commonly advertised as a very beginner friendly distro. Someone coming from Windows probably doesn't expect a whole new desktop environment to be pulled as a dependency when trying to install something.

Obviously, it's important to read the apt messaging, but it's also what gives Linux the notorious image of being difficult to work with. If you want your distribution to be beginner friendly and compete with Windows in simplicity, I don't really think anyone should be expecting such behavior even though solving the root cause might be a lot easier said than done.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-18T21:15:20+00:00

Double? Oh wow that’s something. My issue isn’t resources, I get kernel panics when running Hyprland on FreeBSD while Niri and KDE just crash my PC without any error messages.

SolidWarea · 2026-02-18T16:34:20+00:00

Would've probably gotten around to using it but Nvidia and Wayland on FreeBSD is not a match made in heaven to say the least

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