Plasma and system specs

fishyman65712

Souls 4 Budgie YES YES YES
got it installing a fresh Solus 4 Budgie as of this posting it was reading and prepping everything for install.

clicked to wipe the whole drive and do a fresh install
then at the LVM I left everything blank and just clicked next
it loaded the install screen paused started reading and prepping everything for install.

brent

fishyman65712 Congrats. Panic is normal (for me). Sometimes you got to burn it down and start fresh. I swear to the (deity of your choice) that installation success depends on nuances I believe are out of my control.
I've never got past checking LVM either. Never worked.
I love me my solus but sometimes I could not even get it to see target drive until I made some moves. None, of course, that I remember.
My method of fixing in linux is to throw everything I've ever read against the wall to see what sticks. Eventually something sticks but you will never know what! It makes computing exciting again if you've been around...heh.
Budgie is probably glad you are back.

dbarron

Lol, and that is why you try to change one thing at a time, to see what makes the difference (methodology of troubleshooting). But, yeah, I've been there...I think i was there first time I tried to install Solus (don't remember cause either (lol)).

brent

dbarron
Yes without question method/sequence is the right way to troubleshoot and many times it works EXCEPT I've noticed that re-booting or not re-booting adds an extra=wrinkle into the equation either nullifying your results or confirming them. But I've gone beyond the realm of install issue and I apologize. It might be a good idea to remind myself (or be reminded) to re-boot after every tweak, that way that variable is eliminated. But sometimes I don't see improvement til the next day after shut down and some time has passed. I like the mystery of Linux; starting to understand it.

fishyman65712

When I left everything alone ......
and in default - - and stopped checking something besides the default it gave, magically it worked.

You know basically / stop screwing with it before you break it.

dbarron

brent I had to give Plasma a good run to get an opinion. However, I will say this, it's the best Plasma experience I've had, having tried with manjaro, kde neon, kubuntu in the past. Of course, you have to consider that this is the most recent, so all performance tuning and bug fixes since I ran it last.
I'm pretty darn happy with it, I miss some budgie stuff, but KDE kinda does have it all (much more mature). For the moment, I think I'll run Plasma on my desktop and probably budgie on laptop. After I do the linux install-fest I have planned in May, I will probably think about moving the laptop to a tiling manager because that'll just be faster and I won't have to mess much with the darn trackpad.
I love budgie and I hope it continues to evolve and I'm sure I'll be looking/using it some too. I absolutely love the notification handling in Budgie, Plasma notifications (at least stock) are dismiss all like Budgie used to be.

brent

Excellent review, thank you. Will DD my .iso soon and take it for a spin.

fishyman65712

I just put everything back in a work order and am going to leave well enough alone.

Picked this wee tiny laptop for guest to use. Solus Budgie is running very well for as limited as it is.
1 gig AMD dual core acer ....... surprisingly well to be honest - better then it did with MS Win 7 ever thought about.

Jacalz

I just want to throw it in here that the Plasma desktop generally scales to be as fluid as possible in regards to your pc specs. If you have a lot of ram it will use a bit more to make it feel smoother.

For me it beats Gnome and Budgie memory consumption most of the time. The only merit in saying it is bloated comes from it being slower to start...

fishyman65712

Well I reloaded Plasma, and so far I have managed not to screw anything up.

eye4bear

I installed Solus 4 Budgie on my desktop as soon as it came out. Since then, I installed Mate and Gnome to test out the various Desktop Environments and haven't had any problems.

I see that the KDE Desktop Environment is available for download and I would really like to test it out.

Does anyone think that installing KDE while also having all of the other available Desktop Environments installed will cause any instability?

Any thoughts before I try and install?

craigtoyoracer

eye4bear running multi-DE's can cause conflicts.

For optimal viewing run single DE, or run them all in VM 🙂

fishyman65712

My first Solus was Budgie - reloaded Plasma and have both running on the same SSD.
I did notice today using Brave browser to surf a forum with music links to Youtube the plasma DE would play the music in headset right side speaker at set volume but the left side speaker would only play at little to no sound. I use a USB plug headset by Steelseries, so I switched DE back to budgie and same Youtube links played the sound and set level in both sides in same Brave browser at same level to each other.

dbarron

There are definitely gotchas with many of the DEs. They may not be deal breakers, but you will see issues that you wouldn't see if you had a solid single DE. Basically that means you aren't giving any a fair shot if you're mixing and matching.

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