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I have Fedora 30 running KDE as a desktop in a VM and a laptop. In the VM its actually very nice. Dolphin is nicer than Explorer, with tabs and better view opti

I have Fedora 30 running KDE as a desktop in a VM and a laptop. In the VM its actually very nice. Dolphin is nicer than Explorer, with tabs and better view options. The desktop customization options work well and I can set it up very similar to a Windows task bar as I am used to. The most annoying issue I've noticed is that copy and paste would stop working cross application sometimes (pretty poor). But turning off an "auto copy on select" option seems to fix that. Still an issue as its broken by default. The laptop (AMD Matebook) is a different story. There is just not the hardware testing capacity that Microsoft and their hardware vendors provide. So kernel updates will break hibernate/sleep, or it has never worked. The trackpad will stop responding to taps after resuming, and other issues. There are also some minor graphical issues but that's mainly down to AMD drivers. KDE is the best its ever been. The issues come from hardware issues that can never be fully tested and fixed without a vendor taking Linux support seriously.

0b0001 7y ago
There are other things under the hood. Things that a desktop OS can't do anymore, not today. Your password manager kWallet is, once unlocked at system start, an unencrypted file where any application can access any password. If kMail fetches a signed mail in background, you'll be unexpectedly prompted to accept the certificate with no indication where the pop-up came from. Password dialogues have no priority whatsoever. When a password dialogue pops up just before another application starts, you're likely to enter your password into the wrong dialogue.