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My experience with KDE has been great, until you start using proprietary drivers / hardware. I got an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (solid laptop aside from the spotty
by 0000000000100 4y ago
My experience with KDE has been great, until you start using proprietary drivers / hardware. I got an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 (solid laptop aside from the spotty keyboard) and it was an absolute nightmare getting the keyboard lighting and the laptop GPU to work reliably with KDE Neon.
I ended up just nuking it and restarting with Gnome. Gnome turned out to be a lot more restrictive, but the initial setup load was significantly less than KDE. The graphics card / keyboard LEDs just worked straight out of the box.
The new widgets in KDE were pretty cool and very fluid. The desktop state didn't save for me though and any time I rebooted/logged out, everything disappeared from my desktop...
- pragmatic8 4y agoWait what? KDE & Gnome are only desktop environments and have no bearing on gpu / kb rgb drivers.
- octotoad 4y agoYeah, “KDE Neon” is the key here. The problem is in the distro, not the DE.
- ben-schaaf 4y agoKeyboard RGB no, but the DE certainly needs to support the GPU in some way, especially when it comes to wayland.
- tjrDL6MjB2Zwwa 4y agoSure, in the same way that most DE's will give you a GUI for adjusting monitor layout, but it actually working has nothing to do with the DE itself and everything to do with the underlying distro/OS.