I’m currently testing Fedora KDE on a VM (windows host) before eventually switching over to Linux completely.

  • @thanksforallthefish
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    19 months ago

    Hmm I am using Wayland on KDE for 6-12months with no problem, why did you need to swap to Gnome to get it working ?

    Just curious, no tribal warfare intended (the gnome vs kde fight is a bit silly to me)

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      IDK, Wayland was super unstable for me on KDE, even on my AMD GPU (RX 6650XT). It wouldn’t launch at all through SDDM (black screen, and I checked other TTYs), and it would lock up quickly (maybe a kernel panic?, I couldn’t even switch TTYs) when I launched through the command line. I used NVIDIA before that, and couldn’t get KDE to launch at all on Wayland (GNOME did, but was buggy), so I used KDE on X until I replaced my GPU.

      I honestly didn’t look much into it, but launching GNOME through GDM worked perfectly, so I didn’t feel the need to debug further.

      My goal was to use Wayland, and I didn’t particularly care which DE did it. I have a slight preference for KDE, but I honestly don’t use enough DE features to care too much, I just want something to launch apps and then go away. As long as it has a decent terminal with tmux, can switch windows, and has a clock with a calendar, that’s enough for me.

      • @thanksforallthefish
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        19 months ago

        Interesting. I’m using the 6600 on arch kde wayland with no problems. I wonder what caused your issues.

        Anyway as you say if you’ve got a working setup great.