Debian and KDE is a great combination and things have been running very smoothly so far. I think I have officially converted.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Highly recommend KDE connect. It’s the number one thing keeping me from experimenting other compositors, I just can’t see myself not having it.

  • piezoelectron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Could you share any particular points that made you switch? I’m currently on Manjaro and I was thinking of switching to Fedora. But now I’ve started hearing good things about Debian…not sure how to proceed!

    • Communist@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Please don’t use manjaro: https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/

      I recommend endeavoros if you want something arch based that’s pre-setup and configured.

      But debian has a very diffferent usecase from arch, everything is kept up to date in arch, if you need recent versions of things, don’t use debian.

      If you want things to not change, like on a server, or a workstation machine where you can’t risk a change breaking something, debian is great!

      For gaming, i’d pick arch any day because gaming stuff is changing so fast. It’s also better for wayland since that’s also changing quickly.

      Fedora is somewhat inbetween.

  • Nuuskis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Debian 12 is the best Debian ever made. I overlooked it for decades because it was so painful to use but 12 changed everything. I’m waiting to see it reviewed against LMDE6, because I doubt LMDE6 could be better/faster/lighter.

  • unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Cool, I just switched from openSUSE Tumbleweed to Debian and KDE last month. No problems, works great.

    • wxboss@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I can’t speak to Nvidia issues as I don’t have an Nvidia card installed, but as of Debian 12, they do allow for the installation of proprietary drivers which was often an issue in prior releases.

    • sjolsen@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I couldn’t get the proprietary nvidia drivers to work with any wayland implementation except weston. Cinnamon worked fine, Plasma X11 worked but was unstable. I eventually gave up and fell back to nouveau and now Plasma wayland works A-okay.

      Also I was not impressed with discover. It works, but it’s kind of slow and I didn’t really see an advantage over aptitude

      edit: meant to specify that I was using the 500 series drivers that are new enough to support GBM, that’s pretty important