Why there will never be a year of the Linux desktop
I love the Linux desktop. As far as I'm concerned, the Linux Mint 17.2 is the best desktop around. Heck, I was once editor-in-chief of a website called Linux Desktop. But today, I believe there's no way the Linux desktop will ever become the top desktop operating system.
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Linux Desktop
The Linux kernel itself is rock stable but I feel free desktops peaked at Gnome2 and KDE3/4. They went downhill quickly since then because they adopted technologies that neither Gnome or KDE have the manpower to maintain.
KF5
I feel this way regarding KF5. It's still far too messy for me, it's like going a decade or more back.
KF5
gnome 3.18 decided not log me in again so I removed it and installed KF5 (5.14 with plasma 5.4.1).
I reported a few KF5/Plasma bugs the last week or so:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353281 (This is broken in kickoff but works in kicker).
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353193 (Baloo shouldn't blindly index all folders in my home directory).
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353003 (a Solid crash).
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=352975 (dolphin bug).
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353354 (If I mount a usb disk, kickoff "Computer" panel doesn't show it as mounted till I restart plasmashell).
And a few others a well.
Someone else reported this bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353311 in kcalc.
Edit: there is also this from months ago https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348902
Kinda frustrated and grumpy about it right now haha
KF5 bugs
I haven't submitted KF5 bug reports yet. I'm assuming the bugs I am experiencing are so obvious that they are likely to have already been noted, noticed (by developers), or reported by early adopters.
Thankfully, no bug is truly critical. I haven't, for instance, been forced to reboot or lost an entire session.
For now I am kind of missing KDE4 and wish I stayed with it for longer (maybe another year or more).
It's good to know I'm not alone in all this...