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KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to

KDE software is so great (digiKam, Kdenlive, Kate, Krita) unfortunately the KDE environment compared to Gnome is just so bug-ridden, especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, wayland-support and scaling. Gnome shines in these respecst. I wish thebest of both worlds!

ekianjo 6y ago
> especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, It's getting better on the multi monitor front at least
brnt 6y ago
I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.
- beojan 6y ago
  Nor do I.
  - liotier 6y ago
    I would even venture to say that, as I discovered last month with several Debian setups, it is the best multi-monitor plug'n'play experience I have had so far.
- d4rti 6y ago
  Same here, running a pair of 1440p monitors off my Hades Canyon NUC, running Kubuntu 20.04. Largely now without tweaks, but it needed some when I originally got it to use Kisak-mesa. neofetch output: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64 Host: NUC8i7HVK (REMOVED) Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic Uptime: 5 hours, 7 mins Packages: 3266 (dpkg), 7 (snap) Shell: bash 5.0.17 Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 DE: Plasma WM: KWin Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] Terminal: konsole CPU: Intel i7-8809G (8) @ 4.200GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega M GH GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 Memory: 8898MiB / 32031MiB
- berkut 6y ago
  I do - every time I unlock my screen, Plasma crashes, and my windows get randomly distributed around my virtual desktops. Oddly enough, if I only have one monitor enabled, it doesn't happen. And yes, I've nuked my preferences several times.
  - beojan 6y ago
    Are you using Wayland? If so, try X11.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    I'm running three screens and don't have the same problem. I did a clean format before installing KDE, though, just because that computer had been upgraded from one version to another for around ten years.
  - talhcknews 6y ago
    I have the same problem consistently on PopOS which uses GNOME just across two monitors. As a bonus, in the redistribution process, windows are randomly resized to a lot larger sizes. I suspect this is related to me leveraging the experimental scaling features in GNOME which is hard to avoid using 27inch 4K monitors. Really wish the window management would be more polished but I have no skill in that domain to make it better.
- alexktz 6y ago
  Multi-monitor works well for me but I have one annoying issue which is that one line of pixels bleeds over the edge of one monitor into the next.
est31 6y ago
Wayland support in KDE is improving as we speak. Two recent improvements: * https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-screencasting-and-shared-clipboard-on-wayland/ https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-scree... * https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373907#c29 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373907#c29
thekyle 6y ago
At least their apps are pretty DE agnostic. I use them on Cinnamon mainly and sometimes Windows.
michaelmrose 6y ago
I believe the preferred environment for KDE is one in which you are liable to have the most recent libraries including bug fixes which sadly has often not been the case for people using kde + ubuntu.
pezezin 6y ago
My experience is totally the opposite. In fact, at work we are now migrating many of our computers from GNOME to KDE because we are really tired of GNOME's bugs (and it's "too simple to the point of being useless" interface).
- alexktz 6y ago
  The grass is always greener! I can assure you that there are plenty of bugs on both sides :)
  - pezezin 6y ago
    Indeed there are. We use CentOS, I have been testing CentOS 8 for several months without problems, and suddenly the numpad and special keys like Alt stopped working for KDE programs. Why? I don't know :/
takeda 6y ago
I stopped using Ubuntu 10 years ago, because I couldn't stand how buggy it was, but later I realized it was mostly GNOME. It's interesting how things turned around. Edit: looking at other responses it seems that this still holds true, perhaps it's just Wayland support that's buggy, because it is new.
aidenn0 6y ago
I can't speak to Wayland support, but almost all the bugs I've seen with plasma appear to be GPU specific. My laptop with Intel graphics runs KDE rock solid, while my desktops with Nvidia cards have all sorts of issues, and nouveau had different issues compared to the binary drivers.

ekianjo 6y ago

> especially when it comes to multi-monitoring, It's getting better on the multi monitor front at least

brnt 6y ago

I don't really have problems with multi monitor and KDE.

beojan 6y ago
Nor do I.
- liotier 6y ago
  I would even venture to say that, as I discovered last month with several Debian setups, it is the best multi-monitor plug'n'play experience I have had so far.
d4rti 6y ago
Same here, running a pair of 1440p monitors off my Hades Canyon NUC, running Kubuntu 20.04. Largely now without tweaks, but it needed some when I originally got it to use Kisak-mesa. neofetch output: OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS x86_64 Host: NUC8i7HVK (REMOVED) Kernel: 5.4.0-42-generic Uptime: 5 hours, 7 mins Packages: 3266 (dpkg), 7 (snap) Shell: bash 5.0.17 Resolution: 2560x1440, 2560x1440 DE: Plasma WM: KWin Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] Terminal: konsole CPU: Intel i7-8809G (8) @ 4.200GHz GPU: AMD ATI Radeon RX Vega M GH GPU: Intel HD Graphics 630 Memory: 8898MiB / 32031MiB
berkut 6y ago
I do - every time I unlock my screen, Plasma crashes, and my windows get randomly distributed around my virtual desktops. Oddly enough, if I only have one monitor enabled, it doesn't happen. And yes, I've nuked my preferences several times.
- beojan 6y ago
  Are you using Wayland? If so, try X11.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  I'm running three screens and don't have the same problem. I did a clean format before installing KDE, though, just because that computer had been upgraded from one version to another for around ten years.
- talhcknews 6y ago
  I have the same problem consistently on PopOS which uses GNOME just across two monitors. As a bonus, in the redistribution process, windows are randomly resized to a lot larger sizes. I suspect this is related to me leveraging the experimental scaling features in GNOME which is hard to avoid using 27inch 4K monitors. Really wish the window management would be more polished but I have no skill in that domain to make it better.
alexktz 6y ago
Multi-monitor works well for me but I have one annoying issue which is that one line of pixels bleeds over the edge of one monitor into the next.

est31 6y ago

Wayland support in KDE is improving as we speak. Two recent improvements: * https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-screencasting-and-shared-clipboard-on-wayland/ https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/24/this-week-in-kde-scree... * https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373907#c29 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373907#c29

thekyle 6y ago

At least their apps are pretty DE agnostic. I use them on Cinnamon mainly and sometimes Windows.

michaelmrose 6y ago

I believe the preferred environment for KDE is one in which you are liable to have the most recent libraries including bug fixes which sadly has often not been the case for people using kde + ubuntu.

pezezin 6y ago

My experience is totally the opposite. In fact, at work we are now migrating many of our computers from GNOME to KDE because we are really tired of GNOME's bugs (and it's "too simple to the point of being useless" interface).

alexktz 6y ago
The grass is always greener! I can assure you that there are plenty of bugs on both sides :)
- pezezin 6y ago
  Indeed there are. We use CentOS, I have been testing CentOS 8 for several months without problems, and suddenly the numpad and special keys like Alt stopped working for KDE programs. Why? I don't know :/

takeda 6y ago

I stopped using Ubuntu 10 years ago, because I couldn't stand how buggy it was, but later I realized it was mostly GNOME. It's interesting how things turned around. Edit: looking at other responses it seems that this still holds true, perhaps it's just Wayland support that's buggy, because it is new.

aidenn0 6y ago

I can't speak to Wayland support, but almost all the bugs I've seen with plasma appear to be GPU specific. My laptop with Intel graphics runs KDE rock solid, while my desktops with Nvidia cards have all sorts of issues, and nouveau had different issues compared to the binary drivers.