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EndeavourOS is moving to KDE Plasma for its live environment and offline installer from Xfce. You'll hear no complaints from me!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

EndeavourOS is the distro that stopped my distro-hopping addiction. Installed it over a year ago and haven't left since. Now this made me love it even more. KDE plasma has come along ways. I think Nate Graham has a lot to do with the progress Plasma made. Dude is awesome (so is every other volunteer of course).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use EndeavourOS with KDE and it's wonderful!

Does anyone know offhand the issues Calamares has with Xfce?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I plan to switch soon from Manjaro to Endeavour, and hadn't yet decided whether I wanted to stick with Xfce. Well, with this endorsement plus reports of good overall performance I think I'll give Plasma a shot 🙂

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tend to use XFCE on machines with lower specs. It's a lighter DE. Plasma has always been pretty heavy in comparison, because it's really customizable and designed to be very good looking, which can be taxing on lower-end hardware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think this is outdated advice. Most folks seem to say the memory usage is similar, CPU/GPU usage is a bit higher in Plasma if you leave effects turned on, and disk usage is higher in Plasma.

I primarily care about RAM and my experience with KDE on the Steam Deck is pretty good so it seems like a solid choice.

https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/kde-or-xfce-for-me/26672

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it use systemd-boot by default?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Last I installed it, it had it as the default with an option to use I believe grub.