From: alan@invalid.com   
      
   On 8/10/25 12:17 PM, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Alan K. wrote:   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > My everyday driver is LM Cinn. I regularly boot a LOT of different distro/s   
   live, and I'm   
   > a big fan of KDE, but I also like just using a WM, and I like XFCE as well.   
   I generally   
   > don't like Gnome as a DE, but I appreciate the dev that comes out of that   
   'umbrella'.   
   >   
   > I recently read an article in DW about adding the KDE desktop to LM, and I   
   hadn't tried to   
   > mix desktop toolkits in years because the last time I did that, the menu was   
   a big mess.   
   > This time it worked out fine just adding the KDE desktop instead of 'full'.   
   >   
   > I like for the dev of a KDE distro to try to keep the KDE 'light' in terms   
   of resource   
   > usage live to the desktop; Neon does that pretty well; most do not.   
   >   
   > In terms of resources used to the live desktop, I recently observed that   
   Q4OS TDE uses 10%   
   > LESS resources than Sparky's OB WM over Deb. I'm very impressed w/ how   
   Timothy Pearson and   
   > crew have managed to maintain their forks of the Qt toolkit as well as the   
   '3.5' KDE alive   
   > and well.   
   >   
   Putting KDE onto Mint would be interesting.  You could log out, and login with   
   another DE.   
       You could flip from one to the other but keep your data and files and   
   software.   
      
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   Linux Mint 22.1,  Thunderbird 128.13.0esr,  Mozilla Firefox 141.0.3   
        Alan K.   
      
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