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BarbarousPants wrote

I've only been using Linux for a little over a year, but I'm currently using Manjaro and rather like it. I found Ubuntu a bit too... limited when I tried it at first. I've been meaning to try other distros out but haven't gotten around to it yet.

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ziq wrote

kde neon is the only one i use any more

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moonlune wrote

agreed, kde is my favorite DE and kde neon is very good implementation of it.

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existential1 OP wrote

for you and u/ziq, what's the difference between KDE Plasma and KDE Neon? Is one based just on Debian while the other is based on Ubuntu?

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moonlune wrote

Kde plasma is a desktop environment, it's a set of software that shares the same developers and aesthetic. Other DE are gnome, XFCE, i3 or unity fox example.

Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, Redhat, KDE Neon) come prepackaged and "optimized" for a DE instead of others (you can install different ones if you want, but in that case it's better to chose a different distro - Linux distribution): Ubuntu uses gnome as default DE. Kubuntu is almost the same as Ubuntu but uses KDE as default DE. Lubuntu uses XFCE . Debian lets you chose when you install it.

Kde Neon was made by the KDE devs and specifically optimized for KDE. It's slick and uses KDE "as intended" with various small optimizations that make it fee than other KDE based distros.

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existential1 OP wrote

Got this distro running now. Feels good to be using bash again. Honestly, after trying both, I do like the feel of the mac os gui that you get from ubuntu more than how it looks in windows-like gui's like what i'm seeing on kde neon. Not that it matters much as I spend most of my time with the console up.

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ziq wrote

there are themes in kde neon so you can make it look however you want. i posted a screenshot of mine on this forum recently

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existential1 OP wrote

It runs a bit slow on my setup. Especially after sleeping. And I'm having the dambdest time trying to get it to continually recognize that I have 3 monitors and the middle one is the primary. It keeps "losing" my monitors and having them drop signal.

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cgenvoy wrote

I believe you should try PopOS or Linux Mint.

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