i know i’ll get downvoted but this was my experience last time i tried kde a few weeks ago (kubuntu and fedora kde):

• cool animations but stuttery as hell

• browser randomly consuming 10% of cpu, making everything else slow as if it was using 100% (tested: firefox, librewolf, floorp, brave)

• programs refusing to install

• programs refusing to open

• editing the taskbar often resulted in all the items going on top of each other, i couldn’t move them until i rebooted. couldn’t find an option to reset the whole thing

• i put cpu and gpu temps in the system monitor and it always borked after it had been closed a few minutes

• kded5 or something like that constantly popped up wanting to create a new wallet. couldn’t figure out how to disable. guides pointed to a configuration file that didn’t exist on my system

idk if it’s an nvidia thing but none of these happen on other DEs

personally i find gnome to be kinda weird to use and kde has been so completely crippled with bugs and performance issues every time i have given it a shot (may be a skill issue on my end), that i still have to vote for gnome.

cinnamon ftw.

so your wife likes bbc (big black cursor)

mint cinnamon because on my system it has no major issues and everything is easy to configure. i don’t have a lot of spare time so i can’t spend hours or even days troubleshooting why something won’t install or run. most other distros have been annoyingly buggy or too difficult to set up.

rpm fusion guide was a tad confusing for me and my rtx 30 series wasn’t listed so i didn’t know what to install. i did find a good guide after some trial and error and a full reinstall.

i have used nobara in the past, and i quite liked it and would have kept it but it had (and still has) this weird issue when i suspend my pc and/or turn off the monitor (oled tv), it won’t get signal anymore until i reboot.

anyway for now i ended up going back to mint for the 6th time and everything works so maybe i just stick with it 😂

gave fedora a shot today (with kde) because i see it recommended a lot. i found it difficult to get a working guide for nvidia drivers, had to reinstall the first time because all i got was a black screen. had lots of difficulty mounting secondary hard drive, programs refusing to install and not launching or nowhere to be found after installing, and everything works ridiculously slow even though i have powerful hardware. after almost smashing my head through the monitor i gave up and installed kubuntu, which also seems to have little hickups like stuttering and lagging when downloading something. is it supposed to be this hard? mint is still the only properly working distro i have seen.

i would never do that to a cat and i don’t have money for a new one

can’t wait for my s22u to die so i can do that

and why do they have to be everywhere? we have an induction stove and it has capacitive buttons for some idiotic reason. so many problems! when you boil water, little drops are always landing on the buttons. and to reduce power from max to min, you need to hold the - button for like a full minute. wiping the stove with a wet towel makes it go BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP and it won’t shut up! and finally, when my cats walk on the buttons, they always manage to turn it on. i miss knobs.

random stock info and exchange rates. app recommendations from microsoft store. btw would you like to enable onedrive?

yes, assuming the cables are inaccessible from outside. otherwise it would be easy to cut them.

simply timeshift backing up the system on ssd. random important stuff, tv shows etc on hdd and backup of the hdd on an external hdd. pictures and other important files also on phone storage.

the good news is that it does make windows more secure. you cant hack something that has crashed.

a few years back i was pirating some movie after a bottle of captain morgan. i remember not being able to play the movie and suddenly the file was gone so i downloaded it again, same thing. the next day i noticed the whole system running a little sluggish and some things just wouldn’t work. then i noticed that i had several notifications from windows defender, it had blocked the movie. checked the torrent again and it was a damn .exe… i ran malwarebytes and it found nothing. i didn’t bother reinstalling because it felt normal after a reboot, but it bothered me for the next two years until i hopped into team penquin. just do a clean reinstall, and you can forget about it.

if there’s a chance something nasty got loose on your system, i wouldn’t trust it anymore even if some antivitus succeeds in quaranteening something. if you didn’t have a primary password in your browser, all of the saved passwords may have been compromised. i would reinstall OS and change all the saved passwords.

it’s a good one. just dont’t get a gigabyte mobo. their bios is comically bad, and i found out that the same issues have continued for many generations…

my 9600kf was able to do 5ghz with 1.35v for the first year, and i’ve had to lower the clocks again and again as it gets unstable. it’s now only able to do 4.4ghz. recently upgraded to 7800x3d and i’m afraid to see how long this one lasts as it’s 5ghz stock and gets quite warm even in light use. performance is amazing though, realized my old cpu bottlenecked in many games.

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i have noticed too, apple maps is absolutely superior to google. when we are navigating somewhere with gf, she uses apple maps with no issues while i can’t find shit with google maps…can’t remember this being a problem in the past.

also killing wordpad and putting features from that to notepad means one less program to maintain, less expenses