Interesting, thanks!

I know Fedora has some meta-theme package, they should add that to Workstation too.

It includes the breeze themes.

Then a flatpak env var or /etc/environment could work

LXQt is basically the up to date version of LXDE. Dont bother with LXDE I would say, use LXQt.

Lubuntu has the best theming.

Just download the ISO, flash it to a thumbdrive and install again.

apt search lxde

Is the better start

1. You dont download software from Websites
2. Use Lubuntu or other variants with LXQt or LXDE, dont do it yourself. They already have done the configs for you

Already did that. Those apps are themed horribly and are thus unusable. Afaik there is also no scaling setting for 3rd party toolkits in the COSMIC settings.

Ark can do more, like compress in detail, from the filemanager.

Gwenview is an image editor with many basic features you want.

Spectacle has another image editing feature, for some reason KDE has 4 implementations of that, Spectacle has the only good one. This can be used standalone with the Dolphin extension “annotate it”.

Dolphin is waaay better than COSMIC files, absolutely no comparison. If it is just a customizable GUI, custom icons for everything, extensions.

I dont ger Thunar. pcmanfm-qt is the best alternative to Dolphin I know. At least the theming works on KDE, may be different on other desktops

The thing is I need to configure, compile, package, sign and then layer, because I am on Fedora Atomic (and because that is the correct way)

And I dont know many of the steps in the middle.

A Github runner for this would be great, like a template where people can choose what kernel they need, which then packages it.

Tbh as long as COSMIC lacks 1:1 theming support for KDE apps, it is not usable.

I love KDE Apps. There are also some GTK Apps I use, but the big ones (Dolphin, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle Editor) are all KDE.

Thanks for the insight

Great work!

I am really excited to try it out!

On an Intel machine, this makes me want to compile my kernel so much

I should learn how to compile RPM kernels on COPR

Monolithic kernels and drivers are an issue.

I understand why its easy, but on Fedora Atomic I even have all the userspace drivers for intel, amd, nvidia and maybe more, even though I clearly just use intel…

Yup.

Yeah why need a 3rd party client if Qt works on all platforms too…

Yes this is really wtf.

Linux even has a webview. KDE has QtWebengine, GNOME has WebkitGTK.

There also is Tauri, which seems to be a way better solution.

I rely on 4 Electron apps and hate it.

(Signal, MullvadVPN, Nextcloud, FreeTube)

I am pretty certain those are the reason why my RAM use is to huge, 6GB with no open apps!

ChromeOS is so nice because all these optimized apps simply really run in the same browser. Android the same.

I think Windows (and MacOS?)are also pretty good there… because they have marketshare.

But well, did you know Office 365 for Mac is 5,2GB???

Yes ok, so that is kinda fine.

The app is still huge. And using separate accounts is probably a workflowbreaker for many.

But good that at least that works kinda :)

Yeah probably. Installing Mint and GNOME or Plasma on there will be waay easier.

Haha no, not even KDE devs use it.

I am on Fedora Kinoite and happy. But this was about Ubuntu, and Fedora simply serves a different use case. Kubuntu and KDE Neon are both Ubuntu LTS.

I would never use dnf Fedora again, it is an unstable mess.

I am on Kinoite since a year or more? Works great. Fedoras Packages are awesome, stable and often better than Uwuntu or OpenSUS

But dnf upgrades simply were extremely unreliable.

It doesnt matter how your distro looks, thats the desktop.

It matters how it backups, upgrades, recovers.

Hmm have to check that again.

I really like SimpleX on Android, it is a good and often way better Signal replacement.

It is. I also wonder if there was a model that accomplishes the same thing but with less image copying.

Like, make snapshots every day, but manual installs are not snapshotted but still tracked with ostree. So you can revert them, display them transparently etc.