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Nah I’m more into the main distros, they tend to have better support. Debian, Fedora are my main OSs, with Debian being what I use with old hardware that I still want to use on a daily basis, and Fedora for anything that’s new and might require a more up to date kernel.

Xfce and Debian is the best combination. Stable, lightweight. Overall pretty good.

Thank you for the tip. I will resort to it if it happens again. :)

To be fair, it’s a laptop with an Nvidia GPU. Though I only use Intel’s integrated graphics in a clean, vanilla Fedora 39 installation (no weird extras or tricks on top). I actually installed it from scratch because switching from Gnome made some things a bit iffy.

I’ve had issues with windows disappearing into corners I can’t reach in my own screen (happens with Firefox, not sure if other applications are affected as well), random and complete freezes (keyboard nonresponsive) and I can’t drag and drop files from the file manager into mpv or view files properly with it or Fedora’s default video player for KDE. Gnome as limited as it is, manages to be a way smoother experience.

I really want to like KDE but my experience hasn’t been the same. I even donated to the project lol.

I like the UX KDE gives over Gnome. It feels way more like a personal computer, something that you can modify and do multiple tasks with.

Gnome is a lot more limited in functionality, but it’s also a lot more stable. KDE is buggy and has a tendency to crap the bed a few minutes after startup, which never happened to me with Gnome.

It’s a though decision, but lately I’ve been thinking of switching back to Gnome.