The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to me. My command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can find a Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using KDE4.
Too bad Slax moved away from KDE. I used to use Slax for certain simple tasks. I might still use Slax for some things, & I don't mind that it's switched to a Debian base, but it's not going to be my main distro. It seems like Vector is not a very active project anymore. I tried KDE Neon about a year ago, & found it to have quite a few broken things. I might even try Gecko KDE Plasma, since I've not really given OpenSuse much of a chance. On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Johnathan Mantey <[email protected]> wrote: > The amusing part of all of this is I really don't use any advanced features > of KDE. I just like the overall look/feel. I have no idea what > enhancements Plasma brought to the table. Mint/XFCE is an ok solution, I'm > using it for an old laptop with limited RAM. I just have much more KDE > familiarity, so I'm loathe to change desktops. > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Slackware 14.2 is currently using KDE 4.14. It is very nice but not the > > latest so if you follow the updates from KDE it might look like stuff is > > missing :( > > > > But there is a contributor for the project that runs the ktown repo for > > bleeding edge versions of KDE and its dependencies. I don't use it > myself, > > but ktown is getting rave reviews. > > > > Or you could just go with KDE Neon, which is the closest thing you will > > get to an official KDE distro. > > > > > > > > On 05/10/2018 03:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 10 May 2018, elcaseti wrote: > >> > >> In order to replace Mint KDE, I'm testing various disros that include > KDE > >>> plasma 5, or Plasma 4, or Trinity Desktop Environment. TDE is the fork > of > >>> KDE3, much like Mate is the fork of Gnome2. > >>> > >> > >> Slackware comes with KDE as well as Xfce4. Pat Volkerding has always > >> peferred KDE to Gnome so the former was the default desktop. I've no > idea > >> what KDE flavor is included with Slackware-14.2 because I use Xfce4, > but I > >> install KDE because other applications use them and they don't consume > an > >> unreasonable amount of hard drive space. > >> > >> Perhaps Slackware's KDE flavor will suit your appetite. > >> > >> Rich > >> _______________________________________________ > >> PLUG mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
