poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Nightfox <=-

It works, I think the only problem is bloat - with needing libraries
for multiple desktop environments.

There's a new term now: "Getting Gnomed".

It's when you install one application but it "needs" nearly all the Gnome environment loaded to run, whether you use Gnome or not.


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Re: Re: Kde Plasma Desktop Vs
By: Dr. What to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Feb 05 2026 06:55 am

There's a new term now: "Getting Gnomed".

It's when you install one application but it "needs" nearly all the Gnome environment loaded to run, whether you use Gnome or not.

Yeah, I've noticed some Linux distros have packages for Gnome support libraries. There are also KDE support libraries as well.

And for UI themes, I've noticed that even if you aren't using Gnome, some of the installed applications might be using GTK (the Gnome toolkit); there are a lot of GTK UI themes that will get applied to those GTK applications, but naturally, applications not using GTK won't get that theme. So you'll have apps with one UI theme and other apps with a different UI theme.

Years ago, I used to like Gnome 2, and when running in Gnome, all applications would look consistent with the same theme. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore with other desktop environments.

One thing I've noticed is that KDE Plasma uses Qt, which is a cross-platform GUI framework that I've heard is considered one of the best and most popular (and wxWidgets being another one). Qt is available for Windows too, so theoretically, a program written using the Qt GUI framework (probably especially with C++) would probably be able to be built and run for both Linux and Windows with few modifications. I've done some C++ development using wxWidgets and that was one of the advantages of wxWidgets as well.

Nightfox

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I *really* like running Debian like that. I'm running an SAP environment at

Yes, it runs pretty good like that. ;)

I *really* like running Debian like that. I'm running an SAP environment at work, and we had two choices of distro - RHEL or SuSe. I'm trying the latter for the first time in 25 years.

Which distro is SuSe based on? I am not as familiar with it.

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Which distro is SuSe based on? I am not as familiar with it.

IIRC it's and rpm based distro that uses Zypper as a front end for
package installation IIRC.

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MIKE POWELL wrote to POINDEXTER FORTRAN <=-

Which distro is SuSe based on? I am not as familiar with it.

They are their own distro, their own software/patch system - not an
offshoot of Debian like so many. Apparently, it's close to RHEL in
structure, which is why SAP supports it.



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Unfortunately I have the dread Nvidia GPU so I've never been able to get Kubuntu running stably on my desktop.

Fedora either (although from what I read Nvidia now officially supports Fedora so that's good I guess.

Lately I've been rocking CachyOS and LOVING it. The Arch experience is not for everyone, but I rather enjoy the constantly updated software and don't mind fixing things when they break every so often.

Interestingly, Cachy works great on Nvidia GPUs. I use KDE on the desktop. I tried and quite like lightweight envs like i3 or Sway but find that tools I need for work like Zoom don't play very nicely with the simpler WMs, at least in my experience.

And I really do appreciate how customizable KDE is.

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