I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

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    1 year ago

    I recently switched back to GNOME after a few years on KDE, mostly because of Wayland support. I honestly don’t care much about the DE, provided it gets out of my way. I used to use a Tiling WM, so I may give a Wayland tiling WM a shot.

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      1 year ago

      Hmm I am using Wayland on KDE for 6-12months with no problem, why did you need to swap to Gnome to get it working ?

      Just curious, no tribal warfare intended (the gnome vs kde fight is a bit silly to me)

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        1 year ago

        IDK, Wayland was super unstable for me on KDE, even on my AMD GPU (RX 6650XT). It wouldn’t launch at all through SDDM (black screen, and I checked other TTYs), and it would lock up quickly (maybe a kernel panic?, I couldn’t even switch TTYs) when I launched through the command line. I used NVIDIA before that, and couldn’t get KDE to launch at all on Wayland (GNOME did, but was buggy), so I used KDE on X until I replaced my GPU.

        I honestly didn’t look much into it, but launching GNOME through GDM worked perfectly, so I didn’t feel the need to debug further.

        My goal was to use Wayland, and I didn’t particularly care which DE did it. I have a slight preference for KDE, but I honestly don’t use enough DE features to care too much, I just want something to launch apps and then go away. As long as it has a decent terminal with tmux, can switch windows, and has a clock with a calendar, that’s enough for me.

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          1 year ago

          Interesting. I’m using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

          Anyway as you say if you’ve got a working setup great.

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            1 year ago

            I’m on openSUSE Tumbleweed, so I should have the latest. I’ll probably give it another shot sometime.