jwinnie8 Distros aren't maintaining themes, well most of them aren't. Theme developers are. And until they lock people out of changing themes it'll happen. And at that point people will change toolkits immediately.

    jwinnie8 The GNOME devs have tried to convince distros to stop doing it: https://stopthemingmy.app/

    They can "convince" all they want but I am going to continue to provide a cohesive user experience across both GTK and icon themes, something that cannot be accomplished using Adwaita for GTK theming and icons (since then you don't have a uniform design language for anything that isn't GNOME).. I couldn't care less about the opinions of a select few developers of GNOME applications.

      4 days later

      All I can say is that it looks pretty and works well. Just as lite as Solus MATE on my system.

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      this has nothing to do with default coloring etc. or the post subject, please stop posting in inside this post, if you need support create an seperate post.

      I've been happily using budgie for some time now, but I've just recently given the KDE Plasma a spin. I've had some time now to really dig into the settings etc, and I've also just set up a laptop for a friend. I am actually pretty happy with all of the defaults and would consider them sane as is. Nearly. My only suggestion is in the session setting - my preference would be for the default to be "start with an empty session". It was slightly disconcerting when programs that I hadn't intentionally placed in autostart kept popping up after restarts. Other than that? I'm pretty dadgum happy with things as they are. :-)

        I agree with paulvg regarding clean session. It's standard for most desktops.

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          • Post #55

          Girtablulu It's a shame the music player don't work. Everything works in Budgie, except there is no auto pop up asking me which program to use to open the inserted music CD.

          It was the same with many other distros. KDE looks nice but everything doesn't work, like in Gnome or Budgie.

          Just a few thoughts for what it's worth.

              lekkerlinux I honestly thought most people that user PCs had moved on from CDs, I guess not.

                  Justin I honestly thought most people that user PCs had moved on from CDs

                  Personally, I have a large collection that I've ripped to the Music share on my NAS, but I usually keep a dozen or so CDs in my car for music while I'm driving. When I get tired of those, I exchange them for a different dozen or so to play in the car.

                  When I rip CDs to the NAS, I store the originals. If I'm ever accused of piracy because of ripping the CDs, I can always provide the originals to show that I paid for them. I just don't like dealing with the discs and cases for listening at home.

                      WetGeek I haven't used a CD or DVD for data or audio for about 5 or 6 years at least. I find having to deal with physical media awful. I stream all my music in my car via Spotify or just listen to digital radio. PC is Spotify or YouTube (rarely).

                      Edit: Sorry for derailing thread.

                          WetGeek Yes, I have a lot of CD's and even some vinyls in the garage. Never got to buying a vinyl record player again, yet. I was a graze the past few years, don't even know if it's over yet.

                            Justin Yes, it's much better seeing your favourite song on you tube, rather than just listening to the music, but it eats up data and I am prepaid mobile data.

                            I use DVD's still to install Linux because I never figured out how to install or use the USB burner program.

                            I once picket up a cd from the dusty floor with Zorin on it from years ago, when the other Linux on my PC disappeared. Memory stick are easier to loose.

                            Okay, this is way of thread, but if you buy music from say the Google Play store, is it stored in Google drive or something?

                              7 days later

                              Ok.. So I have to say the Solus implementation of KDE is absolutely amazing. I have tried KDE before.. in Manjaro, Ubuntu and the previously unstable release.

                              I HATE THEM ALL. Hate Hate HATE. I have only ever HATED KDE.

                              But by God, you all did a freaking -brilliant- job implementing KDE. I actually enjoy it using it. I spend most of my time (over)customizing things.. and I really do feel that it is overkill and things are easier in Budgie. But still.. amazing implementation guys.

                              One question though.. I have Budgie installed on two laptops and installed KDE as a DE so I can choose to use it as needed. I know that this can cause potential problems but I haven't had a single issue (except existing issues in KDE, like trying to figure out how the Wallet worked, and issues with getting KMail to add my email accounts, nothing Solus related).

                              I installed SOlus on my roomates computer. He migrated away from Windows 10 completely. He prefers Gnome to Budgie though and so he is using GDM instead of lightdm. I think he would REALLY enjoy the KDE version of Solus. I haven't had any issues running Budgie/KDE side by side.

                              Are there any potential conflicts that might arise from using GDM (because of Gnome installed next to Budgie) AND having KDE installed as well?

                              Just researching before I dive in and get him to do it!

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                              • Post #66

                              I think the plasma implementation is well done. The defaults are sane and the few settings I change are completely subjective.

                              I use the icons only task manager for the panel, turn off the hover feature in the app launcher, and make tap to click available for my touchpad. I might change the click once to open setting... I'm accustomed to using two clicks to open things in the file manager.

                              Love the Solus Dark theme and the Solus icon on the app launcher. I appreciate all the work and attention to detail 😄

                              22 days later

                              My fresh fresh solus 4.1 plasma iso wasn't able to switch audio devices on any games that used openal for audio (for example, warfork) until I added a new part to the config.
                              From the arch wiki;
                              By default, OpenAL does not allow pulseaudio to move audio streams to a different device. To change this, add the allow-moves option:
                              /etc/openal/alsoft.conf

                              [pulse]
                              allow-moves=true

                              If that config was there by default the issue would go away. The bug appears to have been fixed in 2019 according to this openal-soft github commit but still existed for me until I manually added allow-moves=true