 KDE is one of my favorite desktop environments in fact I would say that it's my favorite desktop environment everyone who watches the channel knows that I love to customize things and one of the best parts about KDE Plasma is that you can customize literally everything Some would argue that KDE has too much customization, but I've never been one of those people I love that freedom that KDE gives you and I don't see anything wrong with the developers continually adding new features. I think it's great I think one of the things that Genome suffers from is that a lot of times they pull out features to enhance performance or something like that But with KDE you never have that problem all of that being said and my continuing respect to the developers of KDE I have to say that KDE over the last six months or so has been Really freaking buggy for me. Now, this may be one of those situations where it's just me It's a hundred percent possible that KDE just does not like my computer for some reason I've had that problem before with Mate, like Mate will not install on this computer for Whatever reason and it doesn't matter if it's a boot to Mate or Mate on Arch I just cannot get it to install and run properly. I don't know why Probably personal issues like it's probably something I'm doing wrong. I don't know But with KDE I get it installed and I can use it But I experience a ton of bugs on this computer and I don't know why and it's across Distribution, so I've had problems with Kino White. I've had problems with Arch Arco I had problems with Kaboom too and if it was all the same problems I would be more likely to blame the computer because then you know, obviously there's something with the computer causing that same problem But every single distro I've tried KDE Plasma on over the last six months. I've had different problems So with my Arco install for example Whenever the computer would go to sleep or not the computer to sleep the monitors would go to sleep when I woke them back up Kaywin would have somehow have switched the monitors around so instead of this one here being the primary one It would change to this one here Which means that the panel would switch from here to there and the windows would be all over the place It was not a great experience and I despite searching for the solution to that I couldn't fix it Apparently there was a bug report back in 2015 about the same issue and it just you know, hasn't been fixed yet And but it's weird because like I said, I've never had that experience before prior to that on This install of Arch that I'm using right now The issue seems to be that I cannot set an icon theme at all like I set the icon theme the icon show up in certain places but not in other places and What even like that's a problem that's been going on in Plasma for a long time sometimes you have to log out and log back in for your your Icon theme to kind of propagate to every application. Even if I do that There's still some Applications that just don't have the icon theme activated and I don't know why so in one of my most recent videos I think it was the top five apps of the month list I had dolphin up on the screen for a certain amount of time and You could see that the there were no icons in dolphin like at all and that's despite having actually Selected an icon theme breeze. I'm pretty sure I chose the breeze theme and Activated it just like you would normal in the system settings. They didn't show up What's really weird is that across multiple Installs of KD Plasma, I've had the settings app crash all the time and Usually it's when applying something so you apply a setting and you hit apply which is something you have to do and It crashes the system settings Application crashes and that's across different distributions But the weird thing with this arch install one or this install of arts that I'm using right now is That when I hit apply to apply that icon theme sometimes K when crashes completely and it stops recognizing that there are even two monitors install or you know plugged in and this monitor turns off this monitors on and It does reboot K or K when so you can right click on the desktop and get up a menu and at least log out But it doesn't seem to have a way for me to get that monitor back on because it doesn't no longer recognizes that this monitor is plugged in It's really weird. Now if I was having that problem with in other desktop environments or window managers or something that Then I would say well, you know, this is a hardware problem But again, it only happens on this install of arch the problems I've been having in Kina white are completely different I've been having problems there with the settings application crashing just like I have been all of them But also I've been having problems With the themes not applying so when I install a theme if I can get it installed at all It just won't apply at all and or it will apply portions of it and not other portions of it I have had better luck with covantum setting themes It's so just if I set covantum in the KDE Plasmus Settings and just use covantum to choose a theme that seems to work fine But the global themes in the KDE Plasma app just don't work also and in the Kina way one I've been having problems with discover crashing. So it's an absolute mess now the thing is I Say this all this stuff out of love because I think Katie's fantastic and I'm friendly with a few of their developers You know, I've talked to them before at least and they're all great people and they do amazing work So I don't want to have this come across as Kate, you know, Katie bashing I would still use KDE despite its buggy-ness over Genome 10 times out of 10 It's not even a close competition for me. KDE is the best desktop environment for me no matter what That being said, I do feel despite their hard work at Smashing some of these bugs. They do have a tendency for their desktop environment to be a lot more buggy than Genome or XFCE or Mate or Budgie and That's simply because they have so many more features, right? The more features you have the harder it is to Catch bugs, but also the more bugs you're gonna have So really I'm just making this video as a kind of a way to get some of this off my chest because I really like KDE Plasma and really do and despite not being able to use it You know as my daily driver because I'm a window manager guy I still like having an install of it because a lot of the applications that I use are cute applications like Crusader and OBS and stuff like that. I use a ton of KDE apps So I usually have plasma installed anyway, they just figure if I install the desktop environment You know, I have most of the dependencies already So I like using or having an install plasma around but I can't use it like this install plasma It's completely useless to me I'm been trying to figure out if I just want to uninstall it because It's just taking up space at this moment because I can't Stand an incomplete desktop environment like the icons not showing up really bothers me when the settings application crashes You know it bothers me and I do submit the bug reports through their little bug report You know thing what pops up every once in a while at least but I want it to be at least somewhat stable Now I have thought about using an older version of plasma That's a possibility for me like I have a feeling that if I were using Distributions that were less bleeding edge and more stable like if I was using the LTS version of plasma I probably wouldn't be having as many problems. I think some of the Problems that I'm having are because I'm always on the bleeding edge I have I'm using arch and that Causes me to always have the most recent version and that's gonna lead to more bugs. It's just kind of the way it works So maybe if I tried it on MX Linux or something like that It would be a better experience and that's probably something that I will I will try in the future Because I do like using Debbie and base distros from time to time Anyways, kind of a rambly video and not really much of a point to this other than me saying that Katie is kind of a buggy mess For me and I wonder if it's a buggy mess for anybody else And I would love to hear from you in the comments if you are having similar problems with some Katie Issues you can leave those in the comment section below I'd really like to hear from you if you want to follow me on Twitter You can do so at the Linux cast if you want to follow me on mastodon or any of my other social media networks You can find those links in the video description right below that like button Make sure you hit the like button because I'm a youtuber. 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