This post on why lemmy.world temporarily adjusted federation abilities w/ kbin has a bit more insight, especially in the comments: https://old.lemmy.world/post/5289864
One thing that surprises me is the level of "aha" moments using the additional apps. Gwenview and Okular have so many power-user-friendly shortcuts that are intuitive. Lot's of "Oh that's nice but it would be perfect if..." moments followed by seeing the option in the settings and/or programmable via a shortcut key
Hmmm. This is either tangentially-related or an extension of the same issue you experienced... but I started using the terminal within Kate this past week troubleshooting a .bash_aliases function error and noticed that it too was not updating its environment as expected, even after editing the file and running source ~/.bashrc.
I spent 30 minutes only to realize that all of my edits/source reloading were not registering within the Kate terminal for some reason, but were working as expected in Konsole. Once I shutdown Kate and restarted it, the issue was fixed but that seems like a bug and it makes me wary about leaning to heavily on the terminal within Kate (or any other KDE apps outside of Konsole)
Personally, my (uneducated) opinion is that we already have plug-and-play functionality on a program level ie I can add an OpenAI api key to various programs and make them 'smarter'. Since the Linux experience is often pretty piecemeal as is, this would be a solid enough approach for most.
In terms of AI being ingrained within a Desktop Environment, that seems harder for me to imagine... Like how the Office Suite has AI functionality, would the KDE suite of apps allow for cross-program functionality? Would this require a substantial change in system requirements for local processing? Would there be an open-source LLM hosted in the cloud for chat purposes that also mirrors the privacy expectations of the average Linux user?
I understand people's apprehension towards Linux distros seemingly chasing the latest fad, but I think it's also worth hypothesizing the alternative if AI and LLMs are here to stay/differentiate.
Yeah. I created a thread recently that had over a hundred replies, but over time, each notification became a frustration because the notification link doesn't take me to the actual comment, just the first page. I'm not sifting through 10 pages to read an entire comment and see if it warrants a reply.
Experiencing the same "amazing UI but frustration experience that makes me check out" UX w/ firefish (fka calckey) as well.
Very good point. I understand the desire to give all communities equal opportunity to be promoted, but if the promotions are towards dead-ends, it really does a disservice to the fediverse as a whole
My counter-argument is a small minority create content and a much smaller minority of them actually create interesting/engaging content.
I'm not opposed to a 'blogs' magazine where people share their own content, but from my personal perspective, self-promotion often skews the OP's ability gauge's the outside world's interest in their musings about the world.
I'm in the same boot. Wrapping up my first week of dual booting (for me it's KDE via Debian 12).
With Firefox, I encountered the same issue. After adjusting the resolution scaling, it is back to normal/expected, so give that a shot if your distro allows it.