Mandrake introduced me to it. I think I moved over from fvwm, so the difference was huge.
I stuck around until KDE4 - At which point I couldn’t get it to run for long without crashing. That and I think the Amorok guys started phoning it in. Many years of DE/WM hopping finally ended with 5.21. The wait was worth it!
Nice! Mandrake was really great when it was new – Basically redhat(clone)+KDE+Mandrake Control Center. Compared to the pain of getting KDE installed on redhat (originally), it was quite a slick system. It was my third linux distro, and I rode it up until the Mandrake+Connectiva merger.
After the aforementioned redhat pains, but prior to Mandrake, I also dabbled with Caldera. This was so slick at the time: www.linuxjournal.com/article/3563 – a pity they “enshittified” before the word was coined, because that’s exactly what happened haha. It was the first distro with a graphical install process, which just seems normal now but was quite revolutionary at the time. Plus it came with KDE preconfigured.
After the connectiva merger, I moved to slackware and stayed there until I exited KDE development. It was a great development box because the systems were so minimal and just sort of stayed out of the way. At the KDE 4.0 release event, we even managed to get Patrick Volkerding to attend – which is sort of like meeting your own personal linux hero. That was fun.
I’m out of the loop, but I used to use Slackware – largely because the distro didn’t get mad when I just installed things from source directly onto the filesystem. No dependency tracking ;)
But I had a lot of experience before that with other distros.
Good choices are probable OpenSuse (tumbleweed), Arch, or Neon. Actually, I don’t know the current state of Neon… is that still a thing?
All I want from Digikam is support for Apple’s Live Photos. Not having a good way to incorporate those photos into Digikam, is a huge barrier to me moving fully away from Apple. It should be basic functionality at this point. Live Photos have been around for nearly a decade, and even rudimentary support for them would go a long way.
Any distro that allows you to patch and rebuild KDE packages quickly will be good. Personally, I really like Arch for this purpose because working off of PKGBUILDS just rock.
I vaguely remember having a similar issue with a different terminal emulator. As I recall the keyword to search for is alignment. I think what’s happening is that the symbol border falls inside a pixel instead of on the border between pixels. This results in font smoothing taking effect, which produces that off-color line.
thanks for the answer! the only settings about alignment I found in konsole are under edit profile > appearance > miscellaneous > align to center, but it does not seem to do anything to the fonts
You can try and play with the font smoothing. Maybe disabling sub-pixel smoothing doves this particular issue. It would produce others, though. Or maybe it’s enough to increase the margin.
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