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Title: KDE Neon
Date: 2019-11-22
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(Figured I'd do a bit of an icicle theme for my
phlog for the holidays.)
So, I recently had major problems with the GPU on
my Dell XPS 410 desktop. It's a GeForce GTS 450,
and I rarely have luck with nVidia-based cards
outside of Windows and Mac. But I don't have a
free Radeon card to use, so I'm working with it.
The problem is the drivers, and I don't like that
using the proprietary drivers is the only way I
can do any real gaming with the card.
Fedora started having massive screen tearing
issues, and I finally had enough of that, so I
looked to move distros. I ran into OpenSUSE, and
I liked what I saw. YaST is awesome, zypper is a
great CLI utility for it, and overall, it was a
really nice experience... That is, until I had
the exact same problems with the GPU. And I do
mean the /exact/ same problems.
Well, while figuring out what to do, I looked
over at my disc stack, and found one that I'd
burned a few days prior: KDE Neon[0]. I'm a long
time KDE user, having started with it back on
Mandrake Linux way back when. I still love the
Trinity Desktop[1] for KDE3, but Plasma's come a
long way since its early days. I was using on
Fedora and OpenSUSE, so I figured I'd give it a
shot. It worked well on my laptop.
And since installing it, I've been quite happy.
The graphics card drivers have worked flawlessly,
and I've got access to all the latest KDE stuff,
including the beta for the Kile LaTeX editor,
which has a really handy live preview mode built
into it.
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[0]:
https://neon.kde.org/
[1]:
https://www.trinitydesktop.org/
