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2 Months ago i decided to quit Windows 11 cold turkey. Started with PopOS - didnt like whatever DE i had, so i just switched entirely over to Kubuntu - where i had a ton of permission issues. Finally landed on EndeavorOS using KDE Plasma and WOW. Everything simply works. I've been on it for 6 weeks now and I absolutely love it.

Lots of options out there, and my reasons for moving around could have been solved other ways, but I'm happy where i landed. Everything is customized exactly the way i like it (for now) and it all runs smooth as lubed butter.

The community has been great, and with the advent of AI, almost any problem i have is easily fixed (though there haven't been many).

EDIT - i realized i didn't say anything about gaming but between heroic, steam, and wine, everything just WORKS! Only 1 problem i have is I cant get voice to work in Rocket League, because the Epic terms wont open. I can live with that!

EDIT 2 - I run this with an NVIDIA 4070 Ti Super and an Intel i7 12700k

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've got KDE Plasma on my laptop (Mint) and desktop/server (Debian). It's SO NICE, it really is a fun DE to use. And while it definitely drains battery quicker, otherwise it runs smooth as anything else. Edit: actually, don't quote me on the battery

[-] AugustWest@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Got any stats on the battery thing? Plasma is fairly low resources, my laptop is equal if bit better than gnome in that regard. Certainly better than windows.

I am not using Mint though.

One laptop Arch the other Fedora.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

To be fair it's a decade+ old refurbished MSI laptop, its battery isn't amazing anymore no matter what. Just seems like when I've got it unplugged playing YouTube it drains quicker but I could be mistaken.

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