KDE problems require KDE solutions
KDE problems require KDE solutions
I know it's called plasma, and I don't know if it's actually plasmas fault, don't judge me, it's for the meme
Found the Nvidia user
Some people have KDE problems because they use Nvidia. I have KDE problems because I switched from Nvidia to amd but there's no way to uninstall Nvidia drivers in arch without a os reinstall and I'm too lazy for that (games still work, but many of my KDE bugs are probably caused by Nvidia drivers still being present). We are not the same.
You literally just have to uninstall the Nvidia packages
pacman -Rs nvidia nvidia-toolsi kinda did the same today, but my machine was headless.
can you give me more info on why is impossible to uninstall Nvidia drivers?
Wat
sudo pacman -Rnsc nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utilsUnless you went to the NVIDIA website and ran the .bin, you're not supposed to do that on any distro unless you want problems.
Although it still shouldn't use an inactive driver.
When I last had an Nvidia GPU (secondhand PC), I discovered that the drivers came with altered versions of a lot of the 3D rendering libs. Those drivers are a cancer.
I didn't know that, but when I changed to AMD I didn't think twice before reinstall everything so I never reached this knowledge.
Or AMD, apparently. The bug report for this issue was explicitly renamed to say "Non Intel GPUs" - even though it seemed to be more likely(?) to happen to Nvidia users.
What's the matter?
I've had laptop with Nvidia GPU, and the only thing was that for some reason the driver only worked with Linux 5.4. Other than that, it was fine.
I just have "plasmashell --replace" mapped to meta + del.
Do you know the whats the difference by any chance? Would be interested
They are both doing the exact same thing. In your case it's just stopping and starting the service with separate commands instead of restarting with a single command.
I've had to have such a shortcut for... 4+ years now.
It gets used too often
You know what's funny... I use Windows still for gaming and I have KDE connect installed to control stuff from my phone, and I have a "Refresh KDE connect" shortcut because the connection sometimes bugs out.
If you disable previews on hover, it seems to make the issue go away. At least it did for me. The bug report I've submitted months ago is still unsolved, but it's better than having to restart the compositor every time
Maybe your bug report didn't get collected into the other bug report, but it'll be resolved for Plasma 6 thankfully!
i mostly use kde apps like krita and kdenlive, although when i did use plasma i didn't have these issues. i use sway now because i wanted fully functional tiling (both polonium and bismuth were weird/buggy)
There's a new one I think. Sorry but I can't find it right now, but I believe it's in the get new KWin scripts menu.
by the way i think you mean the kde store
ah a fellow Waterfox user, flatpak or appimage?
AUR waterfox-bin, btw (¬‿¬") I'm almost glad to have made the mistake to install Arch because through AUR I don't have to get involved in these flatpack/snap/appimage wars xD (also because I have no clue what I am doing, but don't tell anyone)
Just curious, what makes Waterfox different from Firefox?
Waterfox is an independent fork of Firefox developed by Alex Kontos. It has several added features such as tracking protection, built in container tab support (eg private browsing in the same window, very neat feature), and Mozilla's telemetry is disabled too. It's a lovely little browser in general, I don't know why I love it so much tho, you could achieve the Waterfox experience with Firefox and some addons probably. Perhaps it's just the appeal of a (more or less) independent project to me, I don't know. It has some history too like I think it supported x64 on Windows before Firefox did but I'm not a long time user so that might be wrong. I'd give the website a once-over if you're interested.
I eventually want to return to GNU/Linux, but I just don't see a DE that has no drawbacks. The most reasonable choice I think is to just return to MATE, even though it looks dated and doesn't feel to innovate.
I really want to try KDE out but it looks like a cluster fuck for me.
Plasma is fine. This buggy reputation is from a decade ago.
It's probably fine, but Gnome with tweaks looks so much cleaner, while being easier to use, so KDE doesn't really do it for me.
I can totally see why others prefer it, though
I can just recommend trying it out. If you're not stupid like me and use the wayland session with nvidia drivers it is anything but a clusterfuck
Linux mint cinnamon?
Tested last week. Games with proton crash every 20 minutes... O am so sad to be forced to go back to windaub
Try gnome, it's really good!
Use a WM, now you'll only have yourself to blame. But GNOME should work well
Similar to an official cinnamon feature that automatically reloads cinnamon if it's memory usage becomes too high
I see someone else is also using waterfox
yeah, that browser that was bought by an ad company :)
It's apparently independent again - announced in July 2023. here's the announcement
I've literally never need to do that.
Still don't understand the purpose of wayland besides cleaner code and easier updates for kernel level stuff.
X11 has been fairly updated with all the features people wanted and needed anyway. Just because no one uses all of its niche and antiquated plugins and extra stuff, doesn't mean its inherently an outdated program.
I'm pretty sure that recent X.Org server development has been driven by XWayland for the most part, the tags on repo certainly look that way
Which version of kde is that, I can't tell. 🙄
Looks like Windows to me /s
Never been an issue on Gnome
You mean the gnome that had a memory leak for the first 8-10 years because every frame non-deterministically allocated memory that may not be freed before the heat death of the universe which they solved by by running the GC every frame because they couldn't fix their bad design?
The one where the only way many people's computer wouldn't fall over is if they restarted their computer or gnome...
Then they switched to Wayland and it was impossible restart the compositor without losing your apps.
The one where common features in other environments are only available via JavaScript extensions that break every release where if even one of those teeny tiny JavaScript extensions crashes your entire gnome session crashes taking out all unsaved data and all your apps?
That gnome?
Someone's very upset over gnome it looks like. Never had a memory leak on my machine, been using it for years. Gnome is fully complete, the only "common features" it's missing are things you subjectively prefer. Like restarting a Wayland compositer is what really bugs you? What an incredible obscure problem that you're crying about. The actually polished DE that isn't a buggy bloated mess, that Gnome.