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And have you tried it in the last 5 years? Desktops like KDE and things like Proton have genuinely meant it's crossed a threshold.
by Zhyl 4y ago
And have you tried it in the last 5 years? Desktops like KDE and things like Proton have genuinely meant it's crossed a threshold.
- layer8 4y agoNo, I haven’t, and it would only be anecdotal evidence anyway. The issue is that there’s still the same mix of “it works without issues for me” and “I gave up making it work” comments as there was 5/10/15 years ago. I certainly believe that some things have improved, but it appears that in practice it’s still a gamble and heavily depends on one’s particular requirements and use cases. KDE isn’t exactly new, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to here.
- Zhyl 4y agoI'm explicitly referring to Proton, a Wine and DXVK project from Valve that now means that many games now work on Linux [0][1]. KDE has had a similar level of investment and polish and I believe has now crossed a threshold where it is comparable in usability and smoothness to Windows or Mac. It now uses Wayland which means that it solves a lot of the janky issues inherent to X. KDE is not new, but it is much better to the point where I feel unless you've used it in the last 2 years you wouldn't be able to fully appreciate. I think the article linked and my original comment both take issue with the number of negative comments here. People like yourself seem to be taking them as a general barometer at best or at worst a complete indictment, when many of them see to be citing issue that haven't been seen for years. Specifically, my OP was complaining about how people are so free to spin off these lists of issues without any qualifying context which I believe leads to this misleading representation of the current state of things. [0] https://ProtonDB.com https://ProtonDB.com [1] https://areweanticheatyet.com https://areweanticheatyet.com