This week, Jonathan Bennett chats with Neal Gompa about Fedora 42 and KDE! What’s new, what’s coming, and why is flagship status such a big deal?
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I sure don’t like KDE, and every time I have a Linux update, I have my son put Gnome Flashback Compiz back on.
Each to their own. I can’t stand gnome, had to reinstall Ubuntu when I first used Linux to get rid off all signs of it. Much happier now with Debian+KDE.
Based on my limited experience — trying to run Fedora 41 KDE on an i7-870 — Fedora-KDE is a disaster.
In the past, I’ve been able to install new systems without destroying old systems: When I installed Fedora 20, I was still able to run the existing Fedora 14. Installing Fedora 41 made the old systems dead, even when restored from backup. In all honesty, I have to admit I didn’t know to back up the boot sector.
Startup is VERY slow, about 5 minutes.
KDE has lost most of its historical configurability compared to the KDE provided with Fedora 20.
Libraries are missing and unavailable from the Fedora repositories, or at least “dnf” and “discover” can’t find them. Example: “sol” (solitaire) can’t find the library “glade”.
The internet is impossible. Firefox as provided freezes the system on most websites. Firefox can’t be built from source. I downloaded Opera; it also freezes the system. Konqueror hasn’t frozen the system yet but doesn’t render some things.
It used to be possible to launch a program by right-clicking on the screen and selecting “run command”. No longer. Now, if a program isn’t available from the graphical launcher, I have to open a terminal and type the command, often using sudo.
I don’t know who’s at fault here in not maintaining compatibility with older Intel CPUs like my i7-870, if that’s even the basic problem. Linux kernel developers? Fedora developers? KDE developers? I suspect KDE but I have no way to demonstrate it. I suppose my computer may have suddenly become defective, but I have no reason to believe so.