<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I love this function a lot!</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>It will be much better if the zoom area followed the cursor when typing.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40480">Daniel Eriksson</a>. oky :) cool ! you have not deleted it, you have explain it ! => *like!* best...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40513">Abra</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> Even for old devices, <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> I've installed it on a 10 old PC with a 3rd gen i7 processor, and even as an alpha, it's a smoother experience than a 3-year-old laptop with stable Windows 11 <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40506">ra248ec91388153</a>. That's great! I'm really happy to hear it, because I tried KDE Linux on a laptop with another annoying MIPI camera, and it wasn't recognized. Good to know it's not a general problem with that whole class of device...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40508">tuxflo</a>. The Nix package manager is installable on KDE Linux for those who want to use it as their method of getting additional software. However I'm not sure if it makes sense to go all in on it. It's quite complex, and I'm sure there would be integration challenges. Although admittedly, I haven't looked into it in detail...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40509">smihael</a>. Apps being available for only specific distros is a problem, right? That's what both Flatpak and Snap solve, and it's why we're going all in there...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/03/the-perfect-laptop/comment-page-1/#comment-40510">mkurz</a>. I'm sure it's a great idea. It's a bit of an emotional leap for me to return to any part of the Apple world, and I also have some hardware support concerns. But it may be a solution...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40513">Abra</a>. I've been pleased by how many people see the big picture here, and clearly you're one of them! You've got it right except for one thing: Flatpak apps are waaaaaaay smaller then your example would suggest. Flatpak apps themselves are mostly very small, under 25 MB. A very small number of huge apps like Chrome and Thunderbird might be 400 MB; these are apps you'll have 1 or 2 of on your system. What's larger are the shared runtimes used by apps; each of these is about 300 MB, and you'll probably have several. But they're shared. In practice, a system using Flatpak for as much as possible will probably consume an extra 1-5 GB over a system where everything is made of granular mutable packages. In KDE Linux, the space overhead of Flatpak is 1.9 GB right now. And that's only because there <em>is</em> content duplication between Flatpak and the base system; our aspiration is to make the base system even smaller by putting more KDE software in Flatpak and pulling more libraries from it. In this case, I expect we'll be able to shrink the "overhead" down to below 1 GB. Possibly closer to zero (asymptotically, I imagine)...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/comment-page-1/#comment-40514">sirspudd</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I installed it, distrobox is present! awesome, this is a slice of perfection :D</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> Very cool initiative; I do think the tooling for composing your own distributions is reaching awesome heights, and there is room for someone to sweep the board with a modern immutable OS.I think Distrobox would satisfy the needs of (what will be) a vocal subset of your prospective users; people who want to manage/mangle their own distributions. With Distrobox you can give them back this power, and when they screw the pooch they will be destroying a containerized Linux (one of as many as they want) instead of the machines primary OS which basically always needs to be functional. <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> Lots of complex problems still to solve, but good show getting this out the gates. I wish you people the best. <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...