I currently use Linux Mint with Cinnamon which is fine. Ive been using it since early December. I had (and still have) some small issues, most of which Ive fixed.
I recently got a new GPU (a 9070 XT) and Im running a similarly cutting-edge CPU. In general, my whole desktop is made up of fairly new hardware.
So my question is: is there anything that speaks against switching to Fedora with KDE? That distro seems like it would make better use of modern hardware and be more “cutting-edge.” As I said, Mint is fine, but it seems rather slow when it comes to adopting modern technologies by comparison at least from a novices perspective.
As a disclaimer one of my best friends recommended I try it out (He has been using Fedora for years ) he also works in IT so should something go wrong I have someone a phone call away that could help me.
Main purpose of this machine is gaming
I recently switched from popOS to Fedora Workstation (GNOME) on a 9060XT/7600X system and have been very happy with it.
Anything in particular you did dislike about PopOs or was their another reason for the switch ?
PopOS is in the process of switching from a customized GNOME to their own in-house COSMIC DE, and their DE is not ready despite being a “1.0” release, being the default DE of their new major version, and being a year late.
Oh I heard about the cosmic stuff. Shame its not ready for 1.0 yet it seems.
Specifically, it doesn’t really have functional Chinese input yet, I had some game crashing that I haven’t experienced in either the previous version of PopOS with the customized GNOME COSMIC or in Fedora GNOME, and I had some freezing when dragging Firefox tabs out to make them their own windows.
I’ve tested KDE Plasma for 2 weeks until a few days ago and recently switched to COSMIC and imho it works better than Plasma. Not sure if I like it more than cinnamon though.
My Personal Opinion (nobody is allowed to get mad at me about this) is that KDE is ugly
rude
I specifically said nobody is allowed to get mad at me.
Were you on Windows before Mint?
Yes I was on Windows 10 for quite a long time > then I tried Windows 11 then Mint and now Im gonna switch this weekend to Fedora.
There seems to be a prevailing belief that people switching from Windows to Linux should be guided toward DEs with a broadly Windows-like presentation, like Cinnamon and KDE.
I disagree and think a more drastic change could better promote learning, for the kind of person who voluntarily switches to a different OS in the first place.
What I’m saying is, maybe give Fedora Workstation a try when you switch to Fedora this weekend.
I would be ok with ugly but it also felt very slow. Even after disabling the animation delays that they decided to put everywhere for whatever reason.
I also had it crash like 4 times a day. There is something else wrong with my computer too but that’s a lot more crashes than usual.
I found COSMIC to be unacceptably crashy, myself.
KDE has a severely inconsistent design language or something. Nothing is ever really sized the same across the board.