12th December 2017, 23:19
I had a brief, intense, passionate but ultimately disastrous 3-day/night affair with KDE Neon on my Lappy in late November. It was after i decided to move away from openSUSE Tumbleweed KDE, & before i decided to use Manjaro KDE.
I replaced TW with Neon on Lappy, after first extensively testing Neon in a VM on my Tower. Well, i'm afraid that Neon on Lappy was... horrible!!! Ugh. It behaved much better in the VM than in reality. Unlike in the VM, i found it really bad to install in Lappy's SSD due to: constant crashes of the Installer; failure to work with my TW encrypted /home partition; chronic instability of KWin [very very frequent crashes, even just from simple actions like moving windows]; inability to either logout or switch user [in either case it instead killed plasmashell entirely & jumped to TTY, then refused to let me restart plasmashell, so i always had to reboot]; incompatibility with Firejail & KeePassXC... The final straw came when i was moving my panel from the bottom to the side, & KWin entirely broke... nothing i tried could fix it, even deleting .kde & kdeglobals then rebooting did not help, even then reinstalling Neon in / did not help.
Yes, obviously i could have chosen to persist in diagnosing where the problem lingered, probably a bad file in .local or similar. However Neon had been so bloody unreliable that i decided even if i fixed it then, it was likely to soon break again & just be an ongoing stress. I decided to cut the pain & move on.
The painful irony of this miserable brief experience was that i had worked day & night to configure Neon asap to my preferences wrt installing & configuring all the many many pgms i need, & of course restoring all my data [given that ultimately i had to delete my previous /home due to Neon not working with it]. A lot of intense time & effort... wasted completely.
KDE Neon had seemed so potentially promising in the VM, but was so horrible in reality. It was so disappointing after the massive success that Maui had been. It's still such sad news about Maui...
Manjaro KDE is running sweetly now in both Tower & Lappy.
I replaced TW with Neon on Lappy, after first extensively testing Neon in a VM on my Tower. Well, i'm afraid that Neon on Lappy was... horrible!!! Ugh. It behaved much better in the VM than in reality. Unlike in the VM, i found it really bad to install in Lappy's SSD due to: constant crashes of the Installer; failure to work with my TW encrypted /home partition; chronic instability of KWin [very very frequent crashes, even just from simple actions like moving windows]; inability to either logout or switch user [in either case it instead killed plasmashell entirely & jumped to TTY, then refused to let me restart plasmashell, so i always had to reboot]; incompatibility with Firejail & KeePassXC... The final straw came when i was moving my panel from the bottom to the side, & KWin entirely broke... nothing i tried could fix it, even deleting .kde & kdeglobals then rebooting did not help, even then reinstalling Neon in / did not help.
Yes, obviously i could have chosen to persist in diagnosing where the problem lingered, probably a bad file in .local or similar. However Neon had been so bloody unreliable that i decided even if i fixed it then, it was likely to soon break again & just be an ongoing stress. I decided to cut the pain & move on.
The painful irony of this miserable brief experience was that i had worked day & night to configure Neon asap to my preferences wrt installing & configuring all the many many pgms i need, & of course restoring all my data [given that ultimately i had to delete my previous /home due to Neon not working with it]. A lot of intense time & effort... wasted completely.
KDE Neon had seemed so potentially promising in the VM, but was so horrible in reality. It was so disappointing after the massive success that Maui had been. It's still such sad news about Maui...
Manjaro KDE is running sweetly now in both Tower & Lappy.