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That is great news! I moved to KDE about a year ago and was blown away by how refined and customizable the experience is. Won’t be moving away from Void but I’m

by _benj 2y ago

That is great news! I moved to KDE about a year ago and was blown away by how refined and customizable the experience is. Won’t be moving away from Void but I’m glad to see KDE having more mainstream access and support!

binkHN 2y ago
I did the same, but did it on Debian Testing. Big mistake. KDE is not well supported on Debian. I too have seen the light in the Void and migrated about a month ago; better experience all around, including a modern KDE.
- mkesper 2y ago
  KDE runs very smoothly on Debian stable. Had it running on testing also, but sid/testing can break from time to time...
  - binkHN 2y ago
    It was less about the smoothness and a lot more about upstream patches for bugs rarely ever making it downstream.
    - pabs3 2y ago
      Debian testing updates to the latest stable KDE releases quite frequently, larger releases like KDE 6 take longer, but thats already in experimental and will be in unstable/testing after the Qt transition finishes.
- bityard 2y ago
  I had the exact opposite experience. I starting using KDE 5 for both work and personal use about 6 months before bookworm became stable and have been extremely happy with it ever since. And I say this as someone who is typically very critical of the roughshod nature of Linux desktop environments. (Namely: every time we have something good, a person or team comes along and wants to rewrite it in their image. Hopefully the KDE devs can stay the course this time and adhere to evolutionary rather than revolutionary growth.)
- pabs3 2y ago
  I switched from GNOME to KDE on Debian testing and it has been going great so far. What issues were you seeing back then?
  - binkHN 2y ago
    Outside of the lagging Plasma 6 rollout, many of the KDE Gear programs, and the ones around the PIM suite in particular, are rather outdated and don't contain many upstream bug fixes. Even Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, contains these fixes.

by _benj 2y ago

binkHN 2y ago

I did the same, but did it on Debian Testing. Big mistake. KDE is not well supported on Debian. I too have seen the light in the Void and migrated about a month ago; better experience all around, including a modern KDE.

mkesper 2y ago
KDE runs very smoothly on Debian stable. Had it running on testing also, but sid/testing can break from time to time...
- binkHN 2y ago
  It was less about the smoothness and a lot more about upstream patches for bugs rarely ever making it downstream.
  - pabs3 2y ago
    Debian testing updates to the latest stable KDE releases quite frequently, larger releases like KDE 6 take longer, but thats already in experimental and will be in unstable/testing after the Qt transition finishes.
bityard 2y ago
I had the exact opposite experience. I starting using KDE 5 for both work and personal use about 6 months before bookworm became stable and have been extremely happy with it ever since. And I say this as someone who is typically very critical of the roughshod nature of Linux desktop environments. (Namely: every time we have something good, a person or team comes along and wants to rewrite it in their image. Hopefully the KDE devs can stay the course this time and adhere to evolutionary rather than revolutionary growth.)
pabs3 2y ago
I switched from GNOME to KDE on Debian testing and it has been going great so far. What issues were you seeing back then?
- binkHN 2y ago
  Outside of the lagging Plasma 6 rollout, many of the KDE Gear programs, and the ones around the PIM suite in particular, are rather outdated and don't contain many upstream bug fixes. Even Ubuntu, which is based on Debian, contains these fixes.