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?

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    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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    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 😄

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    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

      That's a yikes 0-0 I just assumed it was updated because it was rebuilt recently

      Hi ! I'd like to suggest something that I've ran into on all my Plasma installs, whether in Solus, Debian or other distros. Would it be possible to make numlock on by default at the system start ? For some reason, KDE's numlock options in System settings > input devices > keyboard never had any effect on my systems.

      The default way to enable it IIRC is to create a file /etc/sddm.conf and add this simple line Numlock=on

      Maybe it only bothers me though 😛

      Also as someone already told above, the default theme makes Kate unusable unless you hit ctrl+a to highlight everything. Dark font on a dark background is really impossible to read, and unlike some fiddlers I have no idea how to change this specific app's background colour !

      Thanks for this KDE version, it really does the job for me 🙂 I'm still quite in love with Budgie so maybe one day I'll get back, but for now KDE is the way to go !

        trixon this would need really deep testing, that it doesnt brake any stuff and discover wont be added to the repo

          RE + 1 for the activation of the digital lock at startup this would suit me well because in my passwords I always include numbers. I did not have any updates this weekend is this normal ? by cons my girlfriend who is on Solus Mate had.

          Rectification!! I just received the updates this afternoon

          I was a gnome fan at the first ubuntu days, before ubuntu i was using always kde it was pretty good. Now i'm a kde fan again i just prefer it.

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          Thanks for doing this. I moved back to solus and this is the first KDE env that isn’t like emptying a few tool chests at my feet.

          one feedback on the default dark them is I can’t tell active from non active windows because the title bar color is the same. The font color contrast as the only visual cue is not enough of a difference. Probably a personal or monitor issue

          good job. Thanks

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