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Plasma 6 Laptop Experience

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Hello everybody! I was thinking of switching from GNOME to KDE Plasma on my laptop. The main things keeping me from switching are

  • Touchpad Gestures
  • Dynamic Workspaces

Since I have a pretty beefy machine, dynamic workspaces are more an optional than anything but if there’s something unnegotiable to me, especially for a laptop experience, is the touchpad experience which must me at least viable. So what has been your experience? Please I need your opinion

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unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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Anything you can do in GNOME you can do in Plasma.

Just beware that for the first time in your GNU/Linux life, you can CHOOSE how everything works, instead of being forced into a specific paradigm. For some reason some GNOME users find it disturbing 😅 (it’s a joke guys calm down).

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super_user_do@feddit.itOP
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apparently, Plasma 6 Toucpad Gestures are uncustomizable…

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mrvictory1@lemmy.world
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Touchpad Gestures are supported only in Wayland in KDE Plasma

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super_user_do@feddit.itOP
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It runs fine overall!

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derbolle@lemmy.world
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i have kde on a ThinkPad x1 yoga and the experience from plasma 5 to 6 got a whole lot smoother. try it Out. could ne that you need to configure a few things but its awesome

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OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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Touchpad gestures are good, but you have to Google to configure everything. It’s not done out of the box like with GNOME

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super_user_do@feddit.itOP
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I just installed it in this very moment and I’m texting you from the new Fedora KDE Spin installation - Touchpad gestures work ootb, I just find some design choices kinda… uhm, questionable I’d say. Nevertheless, it runs fine overall!

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