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KDE apps generally speaking are overlooked. For example Dolphin, Okular and Konsole are arguably the best of their class, but with little recognition as such.

zeroc8 6y ago
I'm doing all my work lately on Kubuntu. It's such a fantastic operating system, and very large part of what makes it so good is Dolphin.
p4bl0 6y ago
I couldn't agree more. For a long time I've been using a very minimal environment on Linux. That means no desktop environment, just a minimal window manager (it was OpenBox) and a simple terminal (rxvt-unicode). For more than 10 years I didn't even had a graphical file explorer installed on my system. Approximately one year ago (maybe a bit more) I became curious of the Linux experience for "muggles". How could I recommend a system that I wasn't actually using? I spent a bit of time on the web to decide which desktop environment I would try and on the paper KDE looked the best. So I did a clean install of Debian choosing KDE at install time (instead of… well, nothing, as I ever did before ^^). I'm really impressed with the quality of the environment and of the base apps. Except for the PIM suite, which looked really good on the paper but which was an unpleasant experience. I switch to Thunderbird and I'm very happy with it (before switching to KDE, I read my email in Emacs and has no proper calendar apps apart from a custom shell script which managed text files…). Kool Desktop Environment.
- ognarb 6y ago
  I wouldn't recommend Debian with KDE. Debian is using an unsupported version of KDE and not one of the LTS version. Instead KDE Neon can be a good KDE experience for "muggles" (Ubuntu LTS + latest KDE stuff), because this is very much supported upstream.
  - p4bl0 6y ago
    I know, but I've been a Debian user for ever and I quite like the way Debian works. For sure I wouldn't mind more recent version of KDE being available in the backport repository.

zeroc8 6y ago

I'm doing all my work lately on Kubuntu. It's such a fantastic operating system, and very large part of what makes it so good is Dolphin.

p4bl0 6y ago

I couldn't agree more. For a long time I've been using a very minimal environment on Linux. That means no desktop environment, just a minimal window manager (it was OpenBox) and a simple terminal (rxvt-unicode). For more than 10 years I didn't even had a graphical file explorer installed on my system. Approximately one year ago (maybe a bit more) I became curious of the Linux experience for "muggles". How could I recommend a system that I wasn't actually using? I spent a bit of time on the web to decide which desktop environment I would try and on the paper KDE looked the best. So I did a clean install of Debian choosing KDE at install time (instead of… well, nothing, as I ever did before ^^). I'm really impressed with the quality of the environment and of the base apps. Except for the PIM suite, which looked really good on the paper but which was an unpleasant experience. I switch to Thunderbird and I'm very happy with it (before switching to KDE, I read my email in Emacs and has no proper calendar apps apart from a custom shell script which managed text files…). Kool Desktop Environment.

ognarb 6y ago
I wouldn't recommend Debian with KDE. Debian is using an unsupported version of KDE and not one of the LTS version. Instead KDE Neon can be a good KDE experience for "muggles" (Ubuntu LTS + latest KDE stuff), because this is very much supported upstream.
- p4bl0 6y ago
  I know, but I've been a Debian user for ever and I quite like the way Debian works. For sure I wouldn't mind more recent version of KDE being available in the backport repository.