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This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”

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10mo ago

This week in KDE: per-monitor brightness control and “update then shut down”

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I'm really excited about how great KDE has become in recent years. It was getting scary back when KDE4 had lots of problems and gnome3 was devoid of all functionality. Nowadays KDE makes the Linux desktop truly a pleasure to use.
- KDE4 was deprecated a decade ago now. It's hard to believe.
  
  I loved the glorious 3.5.x days. What a fantastic DE it was then. I compiled 3.5.0 from source when it was released because it was going to take the Fedora guys too long to package.
I've wanted this for a while; when I'm done with my computer, I don't mind it staying on a bit longer to do this, rather than when I next turn it on when I (presumably) want to do something. Great add!
- You know what else would be awesome? "Update, reboot, and (just this once) automatically login"
  It would be super useful for when I'm alone at home working but want to do updates over my lunch break.
  
  I think an issue is, this sets up your computer to have a way to bypass putting your password in on boot. If you don't care about security too much and don't have things like secure boot and encryption, then that's bypassable anyways... But otherwise, I'd be concerned about introducing systems that specifically bypass security.
  
  Hardly that often there is a kernell update that require a reboot
- I wonder how that will play together with Distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed where you basically do a whole OS upgrade and are not supposed to do "just" updates.
  I hope we can easily supply our own script to run.
  
  I'd imagine there would have to be script support, as KDE runs on many distros that all have very different update flows.
  
  it's tied to packagekit, so tumbleweed should work ootb. opensuse's immutable distro is less likely to be possible though, as well as anything else like that
Kde is looking mighty good to try now, ive been kind of bored from gnome recently
- I avoided it for a while because it felt so clunky, but it has really improved in the last decade.
omg ddcci :)
Gnome has been pissing me off for a while. Time to take a try of kde
- I used GNOME for years because people say it's "easier", but it's not "easier" it's just simpler. I almost never need to go to the command line with KDE whereas with GNOME it was a weekly occurrence. I am frankly embarrassed I wrote off KDE for so long.
Nice, already wanted this
I can never tell if this KDE Stan is a joke or not.
- I don't know what the hell are you talking about

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