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As a counterpoint to this, I've had the KDE DE running for myself (8+ hours a day), my wife, and my grandparents, running on arch for more than 3 years. We've e

by TkTech 4y ago

As a counterpoint to this, I've had the KDE DE running for myself (8+ hours a day), my wife, and my grandparents, running on arch for more than 3 years. We've encountered no serious or really even minor bugs in that time. My only active issue is where notifications popping up when using the official Nvidia driver causes render lag for a second. There was one bug in a KDE application, KDE connect, where it would crash when loading contacts from the phone. But it's open source, so I just fixed it, https://tkte.ch/articles/2021/09/06/KDE-Connect.html https://tkte.ch/articles/2021/09/06/KDE-Connect.html. I'm not disagreeing with the parent post. I'm sure they've encountered lots of bugs. I'm just trying to show that your milage may vary, and for many users KDE just works.

jwrallie 4y ago
I can also vouch for Plasma. Today I checked the uptime of my computer, and it is doing 16 days running Kubuntu with no issues, and it could be months if I was not rebooting to get system updates. From my personal usage perspective the stability is somehow like this: ios > Gnome > Plasma > Windows = Android Considering that both Google and Microsoft platforms are giving me more issues, I would say that Plasma (and Gnome) are doing quite well. And not to speak of the actual usability, for desktop I'm yet to find something better than Plasma (I don't use macOS nowadays, but I had a great time back when I used Tiger and Leopard).
jlpcsl 4y ago
Same here, running my KDE Plasma on computers for days (especially work one) and no issues encountered. Can't remember the last time, except when Plasma was freezing because of a bug in Mesa3D graphic drivers update. I'm using OpenSUSE Tumblweed on most computers and KDE Neon on the work laptop. And graphics card is AMD Radeon or integrated Intel on laptop. I hear that a lot of bugs can be caused by using Nvidia graphics, but I can not say anything about this as I have always used AMD/Intel because they have proper opensource drivers.

by TkTech 4y ago

jwrallie 4y ago

I can also vouch for Plasma. Today I checked the uptime of my computer, and it is doing 16 days running Kubuntu with no issues, and it could be months if I was not rebooting to get system updates. From my personal usage perspective the stability is somehow like this: ios > Gnome > Plasma > Windows = Android Considering that both Google and Microsoft platforms are giving me more issues, I would say that Plasma (and Gnome) are doing quite well. And not to speak of the actual usability, for desktop I'm yet to find something better than Plasma (I don't use macOS nowadays, but I had a great time back when I used Tiger and Leopard).

jlpcsl 4y ago

Same here, running my KDE Plasma on computers for days (especially work one) and no issues encountered. Can't remember the last time, except when Plasma was freezing because of a bug in Mesa3D graphic drivers update. I'm using OpenSUSE Tumblweed on most computers and KDE Neon on the work laptop. And graphics card is AMD Radeon or integrated Intel on laptop. I hear that a lot of bugs can be caused by using Nvidia graphics, but I can not say anything about this as I have always used AMD/Intel because they have proper opensource drivers.