From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   My saga of playing with KDE.  TL;DR   
      
   I've been a long time user of Linux Mint.  It was my first Linux with Mint 13.   
      
   As I have am now more proficient in Linux, or Mint at least, I've been playing   
   with KDE   
   plasma.  It looks like an interesting DE and I would think it would give me a   
   challenge   
   playing with it, learning it's differences etc.   
      
   I've loaded more than a half dozen different systems, MX Linux, Manjaro,   
   Kubuntu,   
   Openmandriva, Garuda, Endeavor and Debian being my last test.   
   I got used to the way they worked, trying to find if there was one that worked   
   better than   
   the other.   I did find that since it was my first tweak to disable the   
   touchpad on my   
   laptop so my fingers didn't move my cursor unexpectedly, that a few system had   
   a setting   
   to disable the touch pad when a mouse was installed.  Same thing that Mint   
   does.   
   Okay, nice touch, what else could be different.   
      
   Well, a few days ago I loaded Feren OS.  It's an interesting KDE DE on the   
   surface.   
   Similar settings app like others.   It's the updates, update manager, and file   
   manager   
   that threw me.    Feren uses the same synaptic and update manager that Mint   
   uses.  Same   
   front end to apt.   Also the file manager is not Dolphin but Nemo.   Even   
   entering   
   'dolphin' on the command line make it launch Nemo.   That specific item caught   
   my eye with   
   I copied a few launchers onto the desktop from other DE's.  They were all   
   written to   
   launch 'dolphin ${HOME}/Downloads' etc.   When after a day or so I realize   
   they all worked   
   and I have forgotten to fix the launchers.   That one got me for sure.   The   
   launcher to   
   open a text file using 'kate ' didn't work since kate was replaced   
   with kwrite,   
   but that was one in a few.   
      
   The last startling twist was that the custom desktop themes I have created and   
   tweaked   
   over the years that has GTK3/4 configs along with cinnamon (useless here   
   though) works in   
   Feren.  Seems when you are in settings->appearance looking at application   
   themes, one of   
   the configs to it is to pick a gtk setting.   And once I copied my good ole   
   Mint theme   
   into place, I was able to pick that.   And now all the appropriate desktop   
   looks like my   
   Mint.  Same dark orange appearance with the dark walnut wood grain   
   highlights.   Wow.   
      
   The down side of that is I won't have the typical theming setup that other KDE   
   systems   
   have, but at least I have the Plasma config I can learn and play with.   
      
   All in all I think I've found a KDE system I'm going to like and it should   
   give me   
   something to play with.   
      
   If you got this far, thanks for reading.  Maybe I gave you something to think   
   about.   
      
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   Linux Mint 22.1,  Thunderbird 128.13.0esr,  Mozilla Firefox 141.0.3   
        Alan K.   
      
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