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Brilliant! Now all we need is reliable WiFi, Bluetooth, CPU power management, wake from sleep, screen scaling, and audio and we'll be ready for Linux on the de

Brilliant! Now all we need is reliable WiFi, Bluetooth, CPU power management, wake from sleep, screen scaling, and audio and we'll be ready for Linux on the desktop! /s Less sarcastically though, I found plasma to be the most usable of the bunch and glad to see the release cadence continuing. Gnome et al feel like they are on a relentless march to replicate Mac OS as closely as possible. I find Mac OS's approach to multitasking actively user-hostile, so something same like plasma is welcome. Ironically I migrated to Mac OS because hardware support in Linux on common dell hardware is just not there, even in the 2020s

haolez 4y ago
I've just came back to Linux, with Plasma nonetheless, and the only problem I had from this list was that sleep was consuming a lot of battery. Besides that, everything worked fine. It's good enough :)
- qudat 4y ago
  sleep_then_hibernate is the setting I used and it worked great for preserving battery life.
  - pxc 4y ago
    This is how Macs sleep, and it's really good. The same behavior got rolled into systemd as a ready-made, shipped-by-default option a year or two ago, but you may still gave to turn it on depending on your distro. It's definitely worth it.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  If sleep is consuming a lot of battery it's more of a hardware/firmware problem. Because during sleep at (at least the sleep states that Linux supports!) nothing is actively running, only the memory contents are preserved. What could also be is that it's not actually sleeping.
itwillnotbeasy 4y ago
Have used multiple monitors with latest KDE, and never had an issue with display scaling - both fonts and icons look good, whereas in MacOS fonts are just terrible on external displays, so far tried 23" 1080p, 27" 1440p and 34" ultrawide 1440p with the same result. And KDE also allows changing external display scale, where MacOS only offer setting lower resolution, seriously, wtf? That's a pity that in year 2022 apple sells notebook with only 16GB of RAM for $2000 and there is still no adequate alternative for the macbooks in terms of hardware, battery life and driver support. MacOS feels so limited compared to KDE, even base functionality like alt+tab that shows windows previews(and not icons), or window arrangment with keyboards shortcuts or by dragging to the display corners, is not possible without 3rd party software.
- kcplate 4y ago
  > MacOS feels so limited… Honestly that is one of the main reasons I use it. Years back, I realized no matter how much I customized or tweaked my OS I was never satisfied. Might as well not be satisfied and not tempted to waste time tweaking. But, like anything, you grow used to what’s comfortable, so now I just prefer it. It just works.
  - GekkePrutser 4y ago
    What I hated about macOS was that things were constantly changed from under me for what I considered bad reasons (often marketing or change for the sake of change), and generally made things worse. For example when they changed the virtual desktops to be no longer in a grid but in a row. That broke a lot of how I like to do things. In general a lot of changes in every release felt like regressions and many new features were unusable because I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem.. So many of their smart stuff just won't work for me. Anything involving iCloud for example. I'm really happy to have control back over my desktop with KDE. And it does satisfy me to adjust it to my preferences. But preferences vary of course!
    - kcplate 4y ago
      > I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem For me that is another reason it works well for me, I’m all apple and I am definitely dependent on that ecosystem for my sanity. Hope your control gets you to that nirvana I could never achieve. I’ll be envious.

haolez 4y ago

I've just came back to Linux, with Plasma nonetheless, and the only problem I had from this list was that sleep was consuming a lot of battery. Besides that, everything worked fine. It's good enough :)

qudat 4y ago
sleep_then_hibernate is the setting I used and it worked great for preserving battery life.
- pxc 4y ago
  This is how Macs sleep, and it's really good. The same behavior got rolled into systemd as a ready-made, shipped-by-default option a year or two ago, but you may still gave to turn it on depending on your distro. It's definitely worth it.
GekkePrutser 4y ago
If sleep is consuming a lot of battery it's more of a hardware/firmware problem. Because during sleep at (at least the sleep states that Linux supports!) nothing is actively running, only the memory contents are preserved. What could also be is that it's not actually sleeping.

itwillnotbeasy 4y ago

Have used multiple monitors with latest KDE, and never had an issue with display scaling - both fonts and icons look good, whereas in MacOS fonts are just terrible on external displays, so far tried 23" 1080p, 27" 1440p and 34" ultrawide 1440p with the same result. And KDE also allows changing external display scale, where MacOS only offer setting lower resolution, seriously, wtf? That's a pity that in year 2022 apple sells notebook with only 16GB of RAM for $2000 and there is still no adequate alternative for the macbooks in terms of hardware, battery life and driver support. MacOS feels so limited compared to KDE, even base functionality like alt+tab that shows windows previews(and not icons), or window arrangment with keyboards shortcuts or by dragging to the display corners, is not possible without 3rd party software.

kcplate 4y ago
> MacOS feels so limited… Honestly that is one of the main reasons I use it. Years back, I realized no matter how much I customized or tweaked my OS I was never satisfied. Might as well not be satisfied and not tempted to waste time tweaking. But, like anything, you grow used to what’s comfortable, so now I just prefer it. It just works.
- GekkePrutser 4y ago
  What I hated about macOS was that things were constantly changed from under me for what I considered bad reasons (often marketing or change for the sake of change), and generally made things worse. For example when they changed the virtual desktops to be no longer in a grid but in a row. That broke a lot of how I like to do things. In general a lot of changes in every release felt like regressions and many new features were unusable because I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem.. So many of their smart stuff just won't work for me. Anything involving iCloud for example. I'm really happy to have control back over my desktop with KDE. And it does satisfy me to adjust it to my preferences. But preferences vary of course!
  - kcplate 4y ago
    > I'm not exclusively on the Apple ecosystem For me that is another reason it works well for me, I’m all apple and I am definitely dependent on that ecosystem for my sanity. Hope your control gets you to that nirvana I could never achieve. I’ll be envious.