15 AWESOME KDE Apps: I was WRONG about KDE applications!
VloĆŸit
- Äas pĆidĂĄn 23. 06. 2024
- Use code LINUXEXPERIMENT to get 25% off your 2TB cloud storage plan on Internxt: internxt.com/pricing
Grad a brand new laptop or desktop running Linux:www.tuxedocomputers.com/
đ SUPPORT THE CHANNEL:
Get access to an exclusive weekly podcast, vote on the next topics I cover, and get your name in the credits:
CZcams: / @thelinuxexp
Patreon: / thelinuxexperiment
Or, you can donate whatever you want: paypal.me/thelinuxexp?locale....
đ FOLLOW ME ELSEWHERE:
Linux news in CZcams Shorts format: / @linuxshorts5136
Join us on our Discord server: / discord
Twitter : / thelinuxexp
Mastodon: mastodon.social/web/@thelinuxEXP
Pixelfed: pixelfed.social/TLENick
My Gaming on Linux Channel: / @thelinuxgamingexperim...
đ· GEAR I USE:
Sony Alpha A6600 Mirrorless Camera: amzn.to/30zKyn7
Sigma 56mm Fixed Prime Lens: amzn.to/3aRvK5l
Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse: amzn.to/3BVI0Od
Bluetooth Space Grey Mac Keyboard: amzn.to/3jcJETZ
Logitech Brio 4K Webcam: amzn.to/3jgeTh9
LG Curved Ultrawide Monitor: amzn.to/3pcTVDH
Logitech White Speakers: amzn.to/3n6wSb0
Xbox Controller: amzn.to/3BWmIA3
Amazon Links are affiliate codes and generate small commissions to support the channel
This video is distributed under the Creative Commons Share Alike license.
00:00 Intro
00:45 Sponsor: Store your files securely and privately in the cloud with Internxt
01:53 Productivity
02:03 Kalendar: tasks and appointments
03:08 Plan: Project management
04:27 Calligra Suite: Office Suite
05:38 Skrooge: Personal Budgeting
06:43 Media Applications
06:49 Kdenlive: Video Editing
07:54 Krita: Digital Painting
08:43 Kolourpaint: Paint, but for KDE
09:22 Elisa: Local Music Player
09:55 Kasts: Podcast Player
10:48 Utilities
10:54 KDE Connect: Device integration
11:44 Subtitle Composer: create subtitles
12:08 Yakuake: drop down terminal
12:51 Sweeper: privacy and disk cleaner
13:12 Krusader: Power File Management
13:49 Falkon, KDE Itinerary, Marble, Artikulate, KAlgebra...
14:49 Sponsor: Get a laptop or desktop that runs Linux 100% with Tuxedo
15:55 If you have too much money...
Kalendar is an app to handle your calendars, but also your tasks. It integrates with your online accounts.
Plan is a project management application, that lets you handle tasks and subtasks, but it goes a lot deeper.
Calligra Suite is KDE's Office suite, great if you work on your own documents, and the ODF format.
For personal budgets, you have Skrooge.
For video editing, use Kdenlive. It's a full featured non linear video editor that lets you manage video and audio using tracks. It has tons of effects you can apply, transitions, and it can import and export to a TON of formats.
For artists, there is no better drawing tool on Linux than Krita. It's a digital painting appplication with tons of tools and brushes to let you create what you want. It's not only on Linux but also on Android, so you could even use it there, and it handles graphic tablets and their lovely styluses.
If, like me, you're no artist, but you still want a simple app to edit screenshots, or draw a few doodles here and there, Kolourpaint is going to be your go-to. It's basically MS Paint for KDE with anti aliasing, which of course you can disable if you like that pixel art look.
If you have a local music collection, and you're looking for a simple, but nice looking music player, then Elisa is the one for you.
Kasts is a small podcast app. You can add your own podcast feeds, or search for a specific podcast in the discover tab, and add it this way. You'll get a list of all episodes that you can then download and play.
KDE Connect it basically lets you integrate your Android phone, or iPhone, with your desktop. You can send files to and from each device, use the phone as a remote for audio or presentations, or as a trackpad, and more.
Subtitle Composer lets you create subtitles for your videos, or for someone else's videos. You have tons of options to make them look like you want, open an existing file to modify it, select which language you're working on, and export your file.
With Yakuake, you just press F12, or any other key you prefer, and yo get a nice little terminal that drops down from the top of your screen.
Sweeper lets you clean a bunch of stuff that might take up space on your hard drive, like various caches, cookies, web history, recent documents, command history, and more.
Krusader is a file manage that handles archives in the file manager, FTP, has multiple panels to open folders side by side, sync folders, compare file contents, it can batch rename and is completely customizable, on top of having a super powerful search module. - VÄda a technologie
please kde, never stop using the letter k in your app names. I know everybody else is annoyed by it, but I think it's a fun and quirky way of building a brand identity. granted, I'm a German speaker, but still
You mean kuirky? Heh
Yeah but at least it should be clever, not just slapping a K at the beginning of the name. Like for example Kalendar instead of KOrganizer, or Inboks instead of KMail. Just off the top off my head đ
I used to hate that naming convention but I rather like it now. It sure does make it a lot easier to identify KDE apps. I like Q as well, such as qBittorrent or Qmmp for Qt apps.
kde looks like a mess (it really looks like its packages are held by duct tape, and adding up the naming everything with a substring "K", but damn I love the customization.
First time I used kde I was annoyed that it was called console. Now like many others I rather like the "k" throw into their apps lol.
Something that's rarely mentioned is that a lot of KDE apps are available on Android.
True ! That's pretty cool!
They even have a F-droid repo, nice
And that they can't be put on iOS/iPadOS due to Apple's archaic rules regarding FOSS software. đ One of the reasons I'm hoping for Android tablets to make a comeback, because Krita is honestly amazing on Android tablets with a stylus!
@@cameronbosch1213 What do you expect from Apple?
@@charautreal Not much, but NOT THAT! I mean, I'd expect Apple to at least LET THE APP ON the App Store, not BLOCK IT!
For developers, Kate (the KDE Advanced Text Editor) is actually a very powerful tool but keep being ignored because most people expect it to be KDE's equivalent to GNOME's quite simple Gedit (while that would rather be Kwrite, Kate's little sister).
Also, Okular really is the BEST document viewer around and should really have been mentioned in this video!
I have also been impressed by Okular!
Okular is my go-to document viewer! Iâm a college student and it is THE app I use for viewing all the PDFs I need for my IT coursework. Before Okular I used to just use my web browser as my PDF viewer, but ever since I started using it Iâve never looked back. SUCH a useful piece of software.
Kate is perfect. I use it when I'm solving CTFs so I can remember what I did. Lol
I don't know if Kate is really made for professionnal developpers, but, just for write some text and work with them, it's really simple and complete (I often use regular expressions: it's super fast with Kate!)
And I'm agree : Okular really is the BEST document viewer around and should really have been mentioned in this video ;).
Hey Nick, making simpler apps that maybe can become more complex but keeping they easy to use and nice looking is a trend I started to see among KDE developers, I have some apps that are in the process of becoming part of KDE and they're dead simple, I could add more complexity in the future but that's no need for that right now, I think you might be very happy with our (new) apps and Plasma itself in the near future!
Great to see you using our software again! :)
Yeah, things have progressed very nicely on this front, the efforts are really showing!
Simple by default , Powerfull when neede
I LOVE â€ïž this philosophy
That's great ma'am đ
@Ronin Paterson a lot of progress have been done!
I started using Linux in 2012 and I was scared of KDE's appearance and complexity that kept me away.
After a video from nick, I switched Gnome to KDE and I'm absolutely happy about that, I'm having a great experience!
I can do easy things very fast, and if I need complex stuff, is all there đ
@@alessandromauri93 With Gnome, you became familiar with many apps and in switching to KDE, you just installed or looked for and started using the same apps.
With some distros (FEDORA for example), the Gnome apps can be installed into KDE.
I actually switched to KDE because I realized one day that most of my day-to-day apps were QT. Then I found it was leaner and faster than even Mate on my first-gen i7 Thinkpad.
What does QT means?
â@@resi943 qt is the toolkit that many Linux apps are made from (especially the KDE apps)
@@resi943 Widget toolkit. As you can see all buttons, tabs etc. in these apps behave and look the same, because they use the same widget toolkit. Programmers use widget toolkits to avoid reinventing the circle when it comes to handling UI elements.
Also even GTK apps look better on KDE than Gnome
@Abraham Vischnevskiy yup
Another great KDE app is Filelight, it represents your disk usage in pie charts and it's so useful for people like me that constantly live with their hard drives full
oh yeah, absolutely
There must be a mistake in the Krita segment. Some footage shows Photoshop on Windows instead of Krita.
Woops, yeah. I recorded some videos from other creators and I must have mistakenly added that segment instead of one showing krita... serves me right for not paying attention...
I actually didn't notice that and was paying more attention to Nick's narration. Had to go back and check and it looks like Photoshop CC on Windows 8.1 that's probably running on a touchscreen laptop (or a 2-in-1 device).
@@TheLinuxEXP are you going to do anything about it?
to be honest Photoshop NEED this split like in Gimp and Krita are: in Photoshop you use only one software for everything why here you can choose better
@@raandomplayer8589 Kinda too late, and not sure taking the video down for that is worth it. I'd just put a disclaimer and apology in the description personally, woth a link to a video where Krita is being used.
Did you miss mentioning Okular? I love it, and use it even on my non-kde machines
KDE has lots of amazing programs.
As a German myself, I don't mind the calendar program being called Kalendar either albeit we write it Kalender so it's a little confusing đ
I think how you pronounce that one application is Ya-Quake, since, you know, it opens like the Quake console.
I thought so too!
KDE is hands down the most powerful DE i've ever tried. And at least on arch there's tons of modules I can install straight from pacman or the AUR such as one for controlling fans in the settings, policykit KCM, things like that. There's even chat functionality built directly into the desktop if that suits your fancy called telepathy. The modularity and expandability is probably the most defining factor of plasma and it's applications. If you need KDE or an application such as dolphin to do something that isn't in by default there's probably a module or widget for it or if not there's great documentation to help you write one that fits your needs.
hasn't telepathy been on life support for a while now? IIRC it's development basically halted but maybe I'm missing something
8:39 that's my new wallpaper now
Hahaha damn
Here I was struggling with just the Dolphin file manager and here I find out about Krusader. The batch rename will come in handy sooo hard
Don't forget to use F3 on Dolphin for split panes.
I'm no artist, but Krita has helped me tons whenever I needed to do something image related.
Also being relatively lightweight (few hundred MB) it doesn't take too long to load, even on somewhat low-end computers.
It doesn't have extensive features like photoshop, but it sure doesn't lack either at all. It does an amazing job if you are a new digital artist - for free!
Oh also you can do animations too.
Though on a somewhat related-unrelated note, I am heavily impressed with the size of Paint Tool Sai, being I think somewhere to 20mb in size, for the whole app. And it does painting, it doesn't lack there. Obviously it aint super feature rich, but impressive. Though it is a paid app.
(edit: Gnu Linux is full of amazing softwares like Blender and Audacity)
i explained a lot time that for me Gimp and Krita AREN'T rivals, at contrary, Gimp and Krita to me complete each other....Krita is not Gimp. Now we basically only know Photoshop, that tbh doesn't means Krita and\or Gimp are worst but maybe in someway better or is full of alternatives good as open\close suorce but good as, that doesn't simple have this difference but in my opinion is a good thing.
think in that way: not always you can use an .svg image so with Adobe you will be forced to use or Photoshop or Illustrator(quite stupid but Adobe is a profit company, makes sense) while using alternatives such as this you can use Krita or whatever that aren't created for being image manipulators but painting...it's similar but there's difference.
to me is useless Krita, that's it, but because i'm a photographer so my use is correcting my photos and stop so I will use Darktable and Gimp...this softwares are maining use for this purpose and is right we got this.
Krita is rightly for artists who cannot or don't want use Inkscape...I see many artists painting something on paper and then editing by software it, Krita here is the best choice(to me even better than Photoshop due the tools in the gui got a better layout).
I think the 4 softwares: Gimp, Krita, Inkscape, Scrubus, Atom\VS Code and Olive(and co) are really amazing and really to me it is way Gnu Linux(now I don't care if you prefer like me Gnome based on Unity or Kde...are taste, i ended to use Mint Cinnamon Edge 'cause it is stable and it is just working!!!) are the motivations 'cause right now Gnu Linux IS comparable to MacOS.
I still think Windows NT isn't the right choise due Unix based are still just more stable and their virtualized memory is just far better and the concept of use apps in boxes allow you to just have more power...but i think i can use my laptop as i use my macos and what i use in my linux is what i use in my mac...that's power is something amazing, something before was impossible.
due the large comunity Gimp, Krita, Olive(and co), Scribus, Inkscape and Atom\VS Code are easy to use and you wont miss anything from Adobe...that's amazing, that's the greatest result achieved with the easy to use(but still powerfull) GUI!
It's pronounced Ya-Quake, the name is a callback to the dropdown console from Quake. There's also Guake for Gnome
Another KDE app I really enjoy is K3b! Itâs a simple to use, all in one CD/DVD authoring tool
Literally k3b saved me on work, I had to burn a cd and Windows being Windows corrupted 2 CDs, before I gave up and used my linux live USB and used k3b
CD/DVD burning in 2022!? đ
Maybe I should give KDE apps a try again. I dismissed them early on in my Linux/distro-hopping journey because I got sick of all the "K" names. Petty, I know...
As an artist, I can confirm that Krita is super powerful. I use Clip Studio Paint on my tablet (Krita on Android sucks ballz btw) and I can tell Krita on PC is pretty close to CSP in terms of features and how the brush feels. Unless you need some specific CSP niche features and assets, Krita is enough for all your drawing needs.
Why did you show Photoshop so much while talking about Krita?
And on Windows too! Yuck!
May have been clips from and artist who uses both? lol, I saw that too. Funny mistake... There are a lot of Krita users on Windows too actually, it's gotten more popular among artists.
Woops, yeah. I recorded some videos from other creators and I must have mistakenly added that segment instead of one showing krita... serves me right for not paying attention...
@@sarrakitty I know it for sure that coming from my example, many furry artists (including the ones I commissioned) have switched from the proprietary Clip Studio Paint to Krita, thanks to being familiar to it UI-wise, having more features and not being restrictive about the usage of the software, thanks to being FLOSS software.
Many furry artists have NEVER heard of Linux, Krita's native platform, but they LOVE using Krita on Windows.
@@TheLinuxEXP Copyright infringement?
Use code LINUXEXPERIMENT to get 25% off your 2TB cloud storage plan on Internxt: internxt.com/pricing
For anyone wondering, the K stands for kwality.
@@greggoog7559 Oh, kut it out, you two.
That so kewl !
What KDE really lacks is a proper way of making KDE apps. I can compile a Kirigami or Plasma app, but I can't use a UI designer (that is in fact better than a xml file) and I can't make a Flatpak with only one click
And Windows Store lol.
What about Qt Designer?
@@litaveccz It is not part of Kdevelop.
Glade is an extension of Builder
@@talkysassis you really don't need to use kdevelop tho. I'm pretty sure a ton KDE developers don't use it.
@@poudink5791 The we have a problem.
I doubt that Apple developers don't use Xcode and that Windows devs don't use Visual Studio
If only we could have some of the rich KDE features in the GNOME framework haha... also, that Photoshop footage during Krita was đđ„
Yeah it was an editing mistake, sorry about that đ¶
â@@TheLinuxEXP Yeah I figured, it's all good man, love your videos â€ïž
12:16 - it's the first pronunciation because it's a style of drop down terminal introduced by a game called Quake.
I used to be a serial distro hopper but have been on KDE Plasma for over a year now it just works - Great video
KDE is a DE not a distro... đ
I think one HUGE thing KDE has going for it is the fact the developers use the DE they actively work on. How do I know?
Well I don't for sure, but the fact you don't need 10 different extensions to make the desktop usable is something you just can't overlook. Every year Plasma gets better and better; and as much as I also like GNOME, the fact they don't have quarter-window tiling, a visible taskbar or tray icons says a lot about how inaccessible and inefficient GNOME desktop is to people who use their desktop for productivity.
Gnome circle apps are honestly better than these apps, because the developers use GNOME. The things you listed (except for the quarter tiling) aren't things that make you unproductive by themselves, they make you feel unproductive because you are used to the standard way things work.
@@twb0109 Some people are just more comfortable with different ways of working. Even Nick said that GNOME isn't the best option for those used to Windows (rather than macOS or just smartphones, which I find to be much better in terms of intuitively grasping).
@@cameronbosch1213 you're right my boy
Great video! My first experience with Mint KDE was good but it had a few quirks I couldn't live with. I settled on an LXDE desktop and shifted to LXQt. Since most of LXQt gets stuff from KDE, I finally decided to give it another go and it has been great! I still like LXQt slightly better for my use case, but trying out other versions with different default applications has been eye opening, particularly finding KDE Connect.
Years ago I remember many people complaining about certain aspects of KDE and can't help but think they refuse to give it another look now that it has matured. I've got Kubuntu and KDE Neon installed on older machines and it's pretty seamless going between them and my LXQt machines, so I'm very happy with the progress KDE has made.
I am using the drop-down terminal since I switched to arco linux with KDE Plasma and yes its very handy to use. When I tried Linux out for the first time on my old Laptops I mostly used KDE because it was less hassle to find your stuff that you need and I dont want to switch to other anymore...
Dolphin actually has the side-by-side folder feature, too. Just press F3, and it wil split the view into two panels. It is also possible to have tabs within those panels by using the 'open in new tab' feature.
I've always felt KDE has generally got the short end of the stick. It's got some great apps and the interface has always been the best looking. I suppose the disaster that was the switch to KDE4 didn't help, that was a painful time.
The early licensing issues were probably the bigger obstacle.
@@Komatik_ really? that was literally solved 23 years ago though, when Qt finally adopted the GPL in 2000. I guess GNOME wouldn't exist if not for the early licensing issues though, so I guess things would indeed be pretty different.
I think it's time we stop referring to video editors as non-linear video editors. Linear video editors have not been a thing for about 15 years now, and they virtually never existed in computers.
True
heck, this comment if first time I ever saw this definition! I think nowadays it'd be called like "slideshow maker" or "video presentation creator"
@@lmnk Linear video editors were boards that allowed you to queue multiple tape players as sources and output their video feeds to a tape recorder. That's how you edited for tv until the early 2000's.
I came to KDE - Plasma as an alternative to Gnome3 and Unity. I continued with KDE for its immense configuration possibilities. Now, I stay here with KDE for all its great quality apps!
One of the big reasons I stuck to KDE during the darker of the KDE 4 days was the app selection (10 years ago the fact that it had something for every need cannot be understated as immensely useful).
To understand how bad the early KDE4 days were you have to realise that even bugs had bugs sort of, later it got great but the damage was done.
That's not to say GNOME 3 was much better at first; heck, it was so bad that FOUR new DEs came out of it; MATE, Cinnamon, Unity, and LXQt, heck, even Linus Torvalds used Xfce for a while from GNOME 3's released until 2013 when he switched back begrudgingly. What did most Linux users use during those dark DE days?
@@cameronbosch1213 I agree it was bad, but even the original Cinnamon(build in top of GNOME 3 and pretty finicky itself) behaved somehow more predictably; the main issue with GNOME 3 at the time (as with Windows 8) was that it came out of nowhere and broke every single desktop metaphor and user interface convention out there while being extremely idiosyncratic(this is still true to this day of GNOME), people felt deeply alienated. The huge success of MATE and later Unity are in part because of this; LXQt is a bit of a different tale.
However KDE4 was buggy, you couldnât count on it to reliably put a user session not to mention that Nepomuk was a really clever idea gone terribly bad, it could drag performance a lot; we are talking about mechanical drives, smaller and less reliable SSDs and processors with not as many threats available as today (8 at most).
Yeah, it made me leave and use XFCE for a couple of years.
@@cameronbosch1213 i thought LXDE came first and then LXQT was supposed to suceed it, but LXQT just refused to die
KDE is the only one which does not impose a workflow, but yes the names of KDE apps are just........no F's been given in naming them sensibly to what they do.
Well, the hardest thing in programming is naming the variables and I guess naming an app has a similar experience as naming a variable.
GNOME - sometimes is too simple to the point where essential features are lacking
KDE - sometimes is too complicated to the point where applications bombard users with features only 1% of people will ever use
But both are moving in reverse and trying to attain a state in between which satisfies most of the user's, and i like them both for doing so
You can always ignore and hid a feature you don't want to use, but you can never use a feature that isn't there.
@@deathdoor The problem with that is if there is a feature you don't use it still takes up space in your desktop. That's why I prefer if they make features as extensions
â@@davemarinas3259 Yeah that's a huge problem. Konsole for example has so many features I don't need and removing them all would save me 3MB solid. That's like, a fifth of a Nintendo 64 game, right there. Very useful on my 1TB drive.
I swear this "bloat" discourse just keeps getting sillier, I love it.
@@davemarinas3259 Not on my desktop, no. Because Plasma is also highly customization. On all places I add and remove features freely.
Great video Nick! I might have to give KDE a try again here.
These program lists are always very helpful, thanks Nick.
Can we just stop and apreciate the plan to create "sinkship", the youtube killer hahaha, nice one.
Hahaha couldn't resist this one đ€Ł
YES! That is the video I was waiting for!!! Thank you. And thanks KDE apps developers for their great job! Keep doing and improving your apps.
i use KDE connect on an iphone to send files to a windows PC. truly fabulous
I would of mentionned ksnip that I use almost daily, good Snipping Tool replacement for quick snapshot + minor drawing
This is why I love linux. CHOICE!! The competition between desktop environments gives the user a richer experience.
3:15 "Sometimes you DO get normal names!" - Nick, 2022, in this video
That sentence is one of the best ones I have ever heard, it's a sentence that should get famous!
I guess core apps aren't mentioned here, but in addition to yakuake, KDE's file manager has a built-in terminal you can activate with F4 which is super useful.
Also F3 gives you side by side chad mode...together with F4 opening a terminal in the folder you are browsing gives you double Chad points! Also has inbuilt ssh browsing with fish protocol, inbuilt ftp/sftp, smb....I do like how crusader natively handles archives - dolphin needs that
@@andrewjohnston359 yeah lack of native archive handling is annoying cuz I use sway. TBH I need to just make Ark floating by default
THANKS FOR THE INFOOO, very useful terminal!
@@maxxiong You can actually just enable archive handling in the Dolphin preferences with Navigation -> open archive files as folders. It doesn't come enabled by default for some reason.
Awesome video, although the Photoshop footage during the Krita segment was weird.
Yeah it was an editing mistake, sorry about that đ¶
Hidden adds. In fact he is an avid Windows guy.
@@xtra9996 I KNEW IT!!!
I used KDE for primary desktop environment for a long time. digiKam is one of the applications I did not find an equal in terms of performance and features for a long time. Also when I needed a good IDE on an old laptop I found KDevelop. It is developed in C++ instead of higher level languages and provides tons of features at faster speeds (even in old machines) than the most popular IDEs on the fastest desktop computers.
Press F3 in Dolphin for dual-pane and F4 for a terminal pane
Double Chad Points
Great video, thanks for doing the research. I use "KDE Connect" all day long, every day, between multiple PCs, a tablet and a couple of cell phones. I can't imagine how I got by without it. A couple of the ones you mentioned sounded interesting so I will check them out. Thanks and have a great day. -David
Nick when are you talking about Linux MX and Lxqt
I'm going to be building a new computer very soon and it's going to be my first Linux box. I'm definitely going with a KDE desktop. This video was a great help finding the excellent KDE apps.
Detailed Description. Thanks, Nick.
For music, I really like Clementine. Great music player that has podcasts and all manner of goodies built in. Nice to see all these great apps, though. Thanks for the great review(s)
Thank you for the video. I think it would be nice to have hyperlinks to those apps in the description of the video
Elisa also allows to listen to the radio stations on the internet.
I think that Kdenlive now supports hardware acceleration (I think that it's a beta feature but I tested it with a 3060Ti and it works).
It's super unstable in my experience
for video encoding?
Unironically your painting waas pretty solid haha good to see
Hahaha it's the first one I ever made đ€Ł
Thank you, Nick. Yes, and Okular and Krita are great.
Again such great tips of things I didn't know about but are useful. Thank you very much for the work you do and great presentation
The only reason I don't use Krusader full time is because Dolphin allows me to navigate with both the file manager and the terminal and synchronises them. That's the one thing I miss in Krusader
BTW Dolphin has dual-panel mode too (try F3, I hope that's the default and not custom), even supporting the key to switch between for us old-schoolers from DOS era... :) (may require enabling in settings, again I'm not sure if it's default)
Enjoyed the presentation as always. But "...lacked good simple applications" as an opening line followed by some of the most involved applications made me laugh!
KDE Connect also works between two phones (if you're into that)
From damn serious Nick to the charming funny guy ... Loved the transition đđ
As a GNOME user, I'm not going to say that I hate KDE or anything like that.
But when looking at applications that were made for KDE, I often feel really overwhelmed. Most of the apps you showed make a really convoluted impression to me. Most apps seem to be feature-rich, which isn't a bad thing, but like with the budgeting app, for example, a lot of space is used for the huge icons on the left, which is totally nonsensical to me.
And that seems to be a recurring theme with KDE apps. You just notice that these apps have been designed by developers, not designers. And in my opinion, the UI / UX suffers from that.
On GNOME, I feel that most applications I use are made for a single purpose and it feels way better.
But again, this is not an attack on KDE. If you use it, power to you. I tried to use it multiple times. In fact, my first distro back in the day was SuSE Linux 7.2 or something with KDE. But everytime I try to pick it up, it feels as if it's hindering me from doing actual work on my computer.
Funny, I think GNOME 3 and later feels like your last sentence. I'm one of those people who need to use extensions with GNOME to make it usable. Hence why I use KDE. That being said, I do like MATE/GNOME 2, Cinnamon, and Xfce. I just cannot get GNOME, even 40 and on, to do what I need it to do so that I feel productive on it.
@@hwfq34fajw9foiffawdiufhuaiwfhw I just don't care about the huge title bars and icons or whatnot. I start my applications and work with them. That's all.
@@cameronbosch1213 Maybe. I used to love customizing and adding features, etc. But nowadays, I just like to leave the UI flow to the GNOME people. Because things in GNOME feel thought through. Everything seems to have a reason.
On KDE, everything is made to be customizable, to the littlest detail. But in my opinion, something that I modified to "fit my needs" still doesn't have all that thoughts behind it that GNOME apparently has.
I'm saying, that with my logic, a riced-out, customized KDE can't be as "effective" to work on FOR ME (not for you) as GNOME is out of the box.
I don't need a bunch of bars, desktop icons, thousands of features, etc. I feel pretty at home at GNOME with it's keyboard-centric workflow. And I say that as someone who used GNOME 2 for ages back in the day and who was also very upset about GNOME 3.
The only extensions I use are GSConnect (which funnily looks better than KDE Connect itself, imho) and stuff for blur.
@Fernando Figueredo what menu bar? You can get rid of those.
Kdenlive DOES support GPU acceleration, but it was still in beta last time I checked and was hidden away in settings.
It's super unstable
Oooh, Krusader. Seems like the same shortcuts as Norton Commander. Even though I've not used it in ages, I still know them by heart... Will give it a try!
KDE Connect is also available for Linux smartphones ;)
Today I can't live without Yakuake on f12 and the built in Dolphin terminal on f4.
It's soooo practical.
Some pro tips about spending on Amazon - consider how long you'll use it, and if you need it in that instance compared to a solution you either carry over into other tasks or if you can smack together some existing things to make the same thing, except a bit more inefficiently. Always purchasing as you need, as well mixing in some other comparable purchases versus going out and spending money on gasoline can help reduce waste if done with intelligence and intent.
KDE is amazing, one of my most beloved features is limiting battery charge, so now not only ThinkPads (and some Samsung laptops) can use such a great feature.
Which distro are you using to get this feature? Or can I download the .Deb/rpm ? I am using kubuntu and I don't have that feature.
What does this feature do I'm a bit confused
@@n.m4497 You can set it so that your laptop isn't charged above 80% (or whatever percentage you want) when plugged in - not charging all the way to 100% can supposedly prolong the battery's life.
@@prettysheddy I use Debian 11 Bullseye and latest Fedora 36. To limit your charge in KDE (so you ease stress of charging your battery to 100% and prolonging life of your battery) go to System Settings -> Power Management -> Advanced. Here you can see Charge Limits, which you can enable and change when to stop and when to start.
Previously you could use TLP but only for ThinkPad laptops.
Have fun using this feature :)
@@n.m4497 It allows you to set Charging Limit in % and when to start charging your battery. So your battery will not charge to 100% (let's say 75% and start charging at 55%) which prolong lessen the stress on battery prolonging it's health. After 2.5 years my battery has still 99% according to KDE info.
To enable charging limits go to System Settings -> Power Management -> Advanced Settings. Here you can enable charge limits.
Yakuake is the most powerful in keeping tabs and paths between sessions. I need to run 3-4 console apps in different folders every working day. And Yakuake saves tons of time for me.
PS I use Gnome ;)
Yeah, nor reason it wouldn't work on GNOME either!
tdrop can make any terminal emulator a drop down one. I could name a bunch of terminal emulators I'd use over any KDE ones. Kitty, Wezterm, Alacritty, ST. -There's 4. I liked Yakuake as well until I started noticing consistent bugs.
@@TheLinuxEXP Yakuake is an acronym for Yet Another Quake Terminal - as it's inspired by the terminal in the game Quake ;) - so that also helps with pronunciation!
I was going to mention some that you missed but realized that there are too many. We're really spoiled for choice! Cantor, Digikam and KStars definitely need a mention though
Yeah, I had to leave some out, unfortutely !
@@TheLinuxEXP Time for a part 2 then? đ
I do like some KDE apps, but have always been more of a Gnome fan. It just resonates with me more. Great video, as always!
Great video. I really like using KDE so it is good to see the application landscape catching up to Gnome. Just a tip: a rant is negative so I think the word you were looking for is "ramble". Keep up the good work!
@4:15 "It's too bad I don't have a real job anymore, because that's an app I would have used" -- I misinterpreted this as: "I didn't know you can get a 'real job' app now, I would have used it (to get a real job) sooner had I have known"... Well, that was a trippy couple of seconds. đ
Dunno why CZcams keeps eating my comment been trying to comment this a few times now, and it looks like YT doesn't like me mentioning the app names (so I'll be butchering them a bit with accents).
Heard of some of the apps mentioned like CĂ lligra, KöloĂșrpaint, & DĆlphĂn, but don't use them as my desktop is GTK.
I do use KdĂȘnlive though, solid apart from hardware acceleration problem. KDE Conñect and KritĂ are ones I have install but haven't gotten around trying them out. In the case of Kolöupaint, ElĂsa, and SweĂ©per, I have something equivalent to them.
Looks like butchering them with accents worked, weirdly. Not fun that I had to do that and had to retry for like 5 times to get the comment to stick and not get sent to spam or something.
I was thinking that Nick removed my comment :D I made the same writing OkĂčlĂ r
Yeah, I have KDen and nemo installed so I've got Gnome, KDE and Cinnamon libraries floating around.
Thanks so much for this I had no idea most of those apps existed and I'm a KDE user.
They need to do a better job at showcasing their stuff!
Good sh*t. I was disappointed on some video where you kinda gave impression that KDE doesn't have that much kool stuff. đđ
Hey Nick, love your videos! It is off-topic of KDE but can you please do a review of Sodalite?
It's an interesting project to port Pantheon to OSTree Fedora-based distros, and it has virtually no reviews in English. What do you thnk?
Maybe I'll take a look!
AFAIK "Yakuake" is derived from the console in Quake. Therefore I pronounce it like Ya-quake
I didnât even know Caligra suite existed. Looks awesome.
Krusader was the program that made me choose the KDE environment. Not only does it know everything I need, but it does it in the usual way that I learned back in the days of Norton Commander.
I'm deligjted how much Elisa improved over the last couple years. It has become my default radio player
I've really tried to like it but it tends to crash with my collections. Instead I use strawberry, no crashes.
Hi, is there a way to somehow backup a Flatpak for use later in a situation where internet coverage is not available or the servers are down? Thanks for the video and recommendations.
Dolphin also has FTP and can do most of the other things that Krusader does via context menu addons - it's mostly the dual pane layout and OOTB feature set that sets them apart. Still gonna give Krusader a try now though!
Great selection! And it's really impossible to rate them all, they're too many! I love Kile for writing my LaTex docs and presentations...at the moment never found anything better
I find it funny that in the Plan app showcase there's a task that you want to be Linus Tech Tips of Linux
I believe it is a reference to Artesian Builds "Star-Lord" wanting to be Linus Tech Tips of computer builds (or something like that) :)
Kruseder might be appropriate in combination with i3. But if you really want to be a Chad, you need to use cd/mv/rm... or lf file manager on dwm. No way around that
KDE is great. They just don't advertise very well how great KDE is.
Thanks a lot for this video. I've just watched the other one you mention in the beginning, where you say that KDE lacks applications.
Im a KDE User since A LOT, and I got surprised about Kplan and few others I didnt know about it, thanks.
And regarding file manager, all you said about the Krusader can be done with Dolphin.
I wish Dolphin had queueing though
I found KDE to be the perfect Linux desktop environment, especially on top of Kubuntu. Itâs stable, familiar user experience , has all the essentials, looks nice, and, most importantly, offer an App Store that can manage applications from all sources.
If you want further customization, you can perfectly do that with the plenty of options available.
GNOME experience and usability are just too experimental and buggy. So for someone wanting something practical and operational, KDE is the right choice.
I don't mean to be inquisitive, just curious. What do you mean by "buggy" and "experimental"?
@@twb0109 bugs in the app store, inconsistencies in the experience, the workflow that just seems strange and unlike any other familiar os experience. It's a great desktop environment for enthusiasts willing to try new things, but for a power user that just wants to get things done and actually use an os for productive work, gnome will probably fail you
@@semsomify weird, I guess it's subjective, I actually find gnome to be the most consistent DE out there. But the experience being different doesn't keep it from being used by power users, remember that some power users will use only TTY, others will use a DE and others will use tiling WMs. I don't see why it would stop a power user from being productive, but I get why it would stop you from being productive. It's funny how subjective things are xD, I feel like even though KDE feels familiar it is just too much clutter and would feel as unproductive as Windows, which Windows being unproductive is the reason why I switched to Linux.
@@twb0109 Yeah totally agree it's subjective and a matter of preference ;)
Deepin or Cinnamon!!
Hey, so where do you need the GPU acceleration in Kdenlive? Is it in rendering or something else?
Rendering and previewing :)
Kdenlive's GPU acceleration for export worked great for me recently
Are you gonna make a video about the murena/slash e launch? an in depth review of the new version would be great as much for the look and feels of the DE as for the functionalities it has. Since they're French it may make it easier for them to send a review unit of their new phone to you too.
Yep, in a few days :)
I wish that Krita was extended from a drawing tool to a full-scope Photoshop alternative. The devs have really nailed the UI and the workflow, so this could be a logical next step.
Just wondering, what game was playing on the laptop you were promoting at 15:40?
I expect that yakuake is pronounced "ya quake". These style of drop down terminals started when the game Quake brought a drop down console when you pressed the ÂŹ key, to allow you to manually set various config options.
Nick, speaking as a professional illustrator who sucks at environment painting, I'm telling you that you do have the basics down, my dude. I love Krita!
I personally prefer Cantata to Elisa. I have a lot of collaboration albums from artists and that needs an album-artist view so as to not have clutter in the artist list view. Elisa doesn't offer that view mode. Too bad Cantata is no longer in development, though. But I'll keep using it until it's no longer viable.
Thanks đ I need to practice a lot more!
Plasma has been my DE of choice for many years (though I flirt with GNOME from time to time). Glad you gave these apps a try, I definitely have some new things to play with.
P.S. A laptop I can buy with an ISO keyboard layout. Thatâs something I donât see often enough.
O use KDD Plasma and am impressed with programs available.
@7:54 In addition to Linux & Android, Krita is also available on: Windows & Mac OS.
How did you screen/mirror your android on KDE? Thanks.