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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
You and I have very different ideas of the meaning of the word "fantastically".

Mine is admittedly a second-hand device and it is possible that the previous owner did not set it up optimally. It is also the Gnome version rather than KDE. Still, there were inexcusable glaring issues with it, such as the Settings application crashing with a kernel fault when I was trying to edit users, and then refusing to start again until I logged out completely and back in again. There was a pending OS update that fixed that but it did not fix other issues, such as...
  • Booting up and shutting down takes Bloody Ages™ (read: about three minutes), with absolutely zero feedback during the process, just a black screen, so you have no idea whether you pressed the button or WTF is going on.
  • There is no sound. No sound device is listed in Settings.
  • Closing the lid does not suspend the device and there is no setting to make it so. At least twice I had to finish what I was doing quickly so I just shut the lid and put the laptop in the bag, only to find it hot and with a dead battery when I took it out again after less than an hour.
  • The screen scale factor can be set only to 100%, where everything is so tiny that you need a magnifying glass to read the menus and 200%, where most dialog boxes do not fit on the screen. Nothing in between.
  • There is a noticeable lag in operation, in the order of seconds between e.g. tapping on an icon to start a new application and any visible reaction. Not at all what I would call "snappy".
  • No sensible package manager, like Debian's Synaptic, only a very high level "Software". That is a major issue for me. I tried to find one but no luck. There is "Gnome Packages" in the repo that is utterly useless. Whatever I do, it just presents an empty window, despite having sources set correctly.

Maybe you are used to "small things" like that but I expect things to work flawlessly and out of the box.



Can you confirm it works? Having suffered the above, I was tempted to install Ubuntu on it. I found an "official" Ubuntu ISO (16.04.1-desktop-amd_0809_2) and tried it live. It shows up sideways which does not inspire confidence to actually install it.
Honestly, I don't understand why you replied to me when we have completely different setups.

I was referring to the official Fedora 28 KDE (from here: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/download/index.html ). So it's beyond me why you compare it with Gnome, and don't even know how it was installed as you got it like that from somebody else.

With the few instructions I included in my post, you should easily be able to get to my same setup which works great (I have 0 issues I know of).

To address some of your points:
  • In KDE you can set scale factors between 1 and 2 (I find 1.7 optimal, as it seems to be detected as a 1280x800 screen by websites)
  • dnfdragora and Discover do a pretty good job for installing software (Discover is receiving a lot of attention by the devs lately)
  • sound and mic work for me
  • closing the lid does whatever I configure it to do in the GUI settings (by default suspend)
  • screen rotation is remembered and you have to set it up only once in the beginning
  • booting up and shutting down is fast (I think you are getting the 90 sec delay due to some application not closing properly; I think you can see the underlying message by pressing the Up or Down key while you wait but not sure, I noticed that casually in one occasion)
  • nothing is crashing for me
  • and finally I have 0 lag between operations, everything is actually snappy.

So if you have all these issues you speak of, perhaps you could try to install Fedora 28 KDE from scratch and see if you get the same as me. Note that for the few configurations I mentioned in my post you need to download some files on a USB key (or at least the wifi fix).
 

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