[PLUG] The end of Mint KDE edition

[elcaseti]

The fact that Slackware is still using KDE4 is very appealing to me.  My
command line skills are not at the Slackware level, but I bet I can find a
Slackware-based distro that is more to my liking that's still using KDE4.

Too bad Slax moved away from KDE.  I used to use Slax for certain simple
tasks.  I might still use Slax for some things, & I don't mind that it's
switched to a Debian base, but it's not going to be my main distro.

It seems like Vector is not a very active project anymore.  I tried KDE
Neon about a year ago, & found it to have quite a few broken things.  I
might even try Gecko KDE Plasma, since I've not really given OpenSuse much
of a chance.

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Johnathan Mantey <manteyjg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The amusing part of all of this is I really don't use any advanced features
> of KDE.  I just like the overall look/feel.  I have no idea what
> enhancements Plasma brought to the table.  Mint/XFCE is an ok solution, I'm
> using it for an old laptop with limited RAM.  I just have much more KDE
> familiarity, so I'm loathe to change desktops.
>
> On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Ben Koenig <techkoenig at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Slackware 14.2 is currently using KDE 4.14. It is very nice but not the
> > latest so if you follow the updates from KDE it might look like stuff is
> > missing :(
> >
> > But there is a contributor for the project that runs the ktown repo for
> > bleeding edge versions of KDE and its dependencies. I don't use it
> myself,
> > but ktown is getting rave reviews.
> >
> > Or you could just go with KDE Neon, which is the closest thing you will
> > get to an official KDE distro.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 05/10/2018 03:08 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 10 May 2018, elcaseti wrote:
> >>
> >> In order to replace Mint KDE, I'm testing various disros that include
> KDE
> >>> plasma 5, or Plasma 4, or Trinity Desktop Environment. TDE is the fork
> of
> >>> KDE3, much like Mate is the fork of Gnome2.
> >>>
> >>
> >>   Slackware comes with KDE as well as Xfce4. Pat Volkerding has always
> >> peferred KDE to Gnome so the former was the default desktop. I've no
> idea
> >> what KDE flavor is included with Slackware-14.2 because I use Xfce4,
> but I
> >> install KDE because other applications use them and they don't consume
> an
> >> unreasonable amount of hard drive space.
> >>
> >>   Perhaps Slackware's KDE flavor will suit your appetite.
> >>
> >> Rich
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