Well, one of the good things about KDE is support for various theming and customisation settings that allow users to personalise their PC to their taste. Enjoy it!

Hi @jawnhenry it’s been a while since we spoke but I’m surprised I’m actually seeing this now. Before answer, though, I would like to know if you’ve found a distro yet. And if you now know the differences between Plasma and Neon

KDE is incredibly CPU intensive, even if it has become more “optimized.”
I had to overclock a computer I put KDE Neon that had 3.5 ghz, a RTX
580x, and 8 gigs ram to 4.1 ghz just to minimize all the lag when
opening and closing windows.

I’m calling BS on this one. If you had to overclock your CPU to run ANY desktop environment, the desktop is not your problem.

Perhaps you can shed some light on this–
I have been following / reading about KDE for several years, but never made any serious attempt to check it out. Just when I decided to make the move, the distribution which I had been using for many years, Mint, decided to drop KDE as an option; so it was back to square one for me. Since I have now dropped Mint (let’s just say it’s not the same distro any more, and then leave it at that). Can you recommend a really good, KDE-based distribution?

AND–what is the difference(s) between KDE Plasma and KDE Neon?

Thanks again for all your hard work, and your extremely good, expository writing style.

3 reason I’ve been keep in it:
– Goes well with HDMI audio and video (despite many others distros, including Mint).
– Once you lock the task bar and desktop, many things become smoth.
– Privacy and security + GUFW/UFW makes me love it.

3 things that I will improve:
– Twice I’ve been facing unknown memory leaks. Once you identify them (like going with Mint desktop and trying to come back).
– Desktop style. Developers are not the same as common users, a default settings for Java and environment variables would be great.
– Install synaptic as default package manager.