 So, I wanted to do this follow-up video on KDE Neon. I've taken the time to play with it a lot more, do some customizations, and I am more than happy with it. It has not been crashing. It works really well. I'm actually running it here on my laptop, which is not as fast of a computer, and it still just buttery smooth. So, I'm going to start with some of the desktop things that I've customized here. So, I've changed the theme around a little bit, and the themes are pretty easy to change. You just go here and hit apply, and it switches out the entire look and feel of the system. Go to apply again. One of the things I have noticed, and you may have noticed some things didn't switch back, I've had this problem happen before where once you change a theme, until you log out, it doesn't want to apply the theme properly. Not really sure why. It's pretty consistent across the board. There we go, and it did it. I can't make it do it every time, but you guys actually got to see, I guess you could call it a bug, but it's not such a big bug that's a problem because I'm not changing themes all the time, and either reapplying the theme or simply going in and out of the system fixes it. Also, when you're changing things, occasionally some of the menu options will not disappear, but the menus will kind of get blurred together, and I've run into this with some of the other applications that are running like this one here. I've had these files become the same color as the background, so you can only see them when you mouse over them. That only occurs when it's switching themes back and forth, and I was playing, so I was doing some testing before the demo of this video, and that definitely was a weird thing that popped up. Now I've got some of the widgets customized over here to the side, CPU load monitor. This is really nice when I want to know what my computer is doing, or what's taking up all the CPU. Part of it's doing recording right now, and the other part of it's these desktop effects. And the desktop effects do take up a little bit of processing power to get these going. And just for reference, my system is a Core i5 at 2.3 GHz. This is one of the Intel mobile processors because this is on my laptop, so it takes up a little CPU power to do all the wobbly windows, but as you can see it's performing quite well, no real lag or anything like that. So it's not really been a burden, it runs really smooth on this system. And I do have 8GB of RAM on it. Nice thing about KDE NEON is I don't have too many things running right now, but it's not a huge memory hog. So when you look at the processes running, OBS is actually taking up the majority of it right now, but you look down here at Plasma, hardly taking up anything at all. So it's really, it's a pretty lightweight system. For all the iCandy you get, it's really well-coded. So back to the review here and some of the customization. So we're going to go here, we're going to look, we showed you the theme, it's pretty easy to change it. Now one of the things I really like is you can also really get down there and take a theme apart, so to speak, and say, I want different icons. I like this theme, but I want different icons or I want a different application style. That'll let you choose all those little settings in there to fine-tune it to the way you like. So here's actually parts of different themes in here, and then you can just click each of these and hit apply and change the color scheme around. I kind of like this one. I played around a little bit and this has great readability, high contrast and looks really good. So there's the themes. Now desktop behavior, this is where I've changed and customized things a bit. So show information tips, visual feedback for status changes, leave those at default. What I have done though, and I'll pull up here, I love this as the window switcher, and you just push it up to the corner and I'll show you where that setting is. This is really cool. So it's screen edges and you can customize what each screen edge does. So for this one, I have present all desktops. You just right-click and choose which one you want the option to be. So if I right-click, present all desktops, present windows on current desktop. Now the difference is, because I have several virtual screens, I can go to the different virtual screens and have them display or not display. So here's another virtual screen and here's that one. So I'm having it display both, that way whatever is on all the desktops, it pulls it up. Now this works fine even on my main computer, which has three monitors and it displays them all across all three monitors and which applications on which monitor. So it still works really well. It's good because it works well aware of multi-monitor setups. What was the problem I had with some of the previous versions of KDE was multi-monitor didn't seem quite as fluid. So you can also go here and configure things like lock screen, we're going to hit apply and it has now locked the screen. And that's kind of convenient that way you can just throw your mouse up at the top and lock the screen real quick without having to press any keys. But like I said, this is this neat little feature that they have in there. Now you can also control when you do the screen locking, what wallpaper shows up and customization on there. I have a background color and this background selected. I could select my main desktop if I wanted or choose a custom color. I just like a plain black, you know, with the login screen for that. Well, not plain black, but black login around it and then an image. We actually can set the plain color and there we go. Apply and now when I lock the screen, we'll go to the plain color. Now virtual desktops, I've left it at two by one. So it gives me two separate desktops. You can name them and that's down here. You can switch. There's also different switching modes that you can do for it. So I like the virtual desktops because if you have a lot of things like right now, I have a lot of things open and I just want to jump to another desktop. Just click real quick over here. Also when you mouse over the desktop, you know, as it tells you all the services that are running in that desktop back to the desktop effects themselves. And they open this window a little bit bigger for you. Most of them are at default, but a couple of my changed. So I don't really use the zoom feature background contrast, improve the contrast behind windows. It's part of the way it changes focus on here. So improve contrast and readability behind semi-transparent windows, desaturate unresponsive applications, kind of neat. They just fade out to say that they're locked up, make windows smooth, fade when they are shown or hidden. I don't care for the glide that much. The smooth login works. The morphing pop-ups, I think I can pull some of those. It's kind of the way, let me find something that has a tooltip in it. Does this have it? Yeah, it's just kind of a smoother way to display the tooltips as they come over. The translucency, and each one of these is customizable. I mean, there's so many options for here. Move window contents when showing the desktop. So you can actually have it not move the windows contents if you want it. And the magic lamp is one of them I like. This is kind of novel to me. It just magic lamps up and down, kind of cool. Now I have auto hide turned on for the bottom here. One thing about the auto hide that I thought was a bug, it turns out it's just when I get notices. So if I have another window that has a notice that comes up, the auto hide stays on there until you click that notice and it goes away. I don't have any notices I can force to pop up right now. But for example, I use Google Hangouts. So when Google Hangouts has something that comes up, it locks the slide up and it won't show until I click the notice. It won't go back and forth. It won't switch away from it and auto hide again. Now let's go back to the all settings. Window management. I like the fact that they give you a lot of task switcher options. So this is my alt tab, being able to switch between the different applications. And the default is the one of the theme, which is breeze. But you can do other switching options like cover switcher. And you have another one in here, flip switch, which I think is similar to what Windows Arrow does. I'm not enough of Windows user to really pay attention. But I think Windows Arrow does this. It looks kind of cool. It's more eye candy. I don't know if it's as helpful. Then they have like Informative, which is just really simple. And I kind of like this task switcher. Now one thing I will note, the task switcher doesn't work as well with three screens. Like with the flip one, it kind of tries to spread them across three screens. So it actually makes it harder to read. I didn't see a customizing option at all in the flip switch or that one that allows it to go to a single screen. Because ideally I'd run it on my middle screen. But spreading across those across three screens, it just stretches everything. And it's kind of weird. Grid switch. So you get kind of a grid of all the windows that are pulled up. Text only. So if you're kind of more minimalist and you want it to be really efficient, kind of nice. But the breeze switcher kind of works for me. I don't know. For all the cool eye candy stuff, I thought this one was kind of neat. The other thing too, I find myself doing this more than anything else. I just run the mouse up to the corner and jump back over to whatever it is I wanted to get back to. So those are just kind of the customizations I've done to it. I guess we could take a look here too. I've also added the notes down here. I really like the note feature. So you just go to the widget, and we're going to go ahead and, I know some people don't seem to like the widgets. I'm pretty happy with them though. They don't seem to have any problems. We're going to search for widget note. And here's the note. So now if you drag it over to here, it becomes a little icon here, which I like. Because I usually have a lot of things open on my desktop. But it also becomes a great scratch pad. So if I get a call or I need to do this, often when I'm configuring networks, I'm like, okay, I need that address. I need another address. And then later, I can just simply copy and paste them back into the clipboard and keep working what I'm working on. And it's nice and distraction free, so I can just keep putting things up here. Now one thing I have noticed, the settings can be a bit daunting, because there's so many of them. But I do like the switch the way you can just search for things and it highlights them. I'm not mistaken, that's a pretty popular Mac feature. So it grays out the other options and brings you to the options inside of there. And once again, being on a laptop, it gives you the options to dim the screen, screen energy savings, switch the screen off, basically on battery, on low battery. So I like the triple setting. So when it's plugged into this, when it's on battery, do this, and on low battery, do this, and you can choose what the battery levels are. Now also, the desktop, the updates go really smooth. So it has an update here. I'm not going to run it at the moment, but I'll pull it up to show you what it looks like. Just hit update, and it brings up the update manager, fetching updates, and you click load the updates after it loads them. I'll close it. It'll remind me later to do that. The networking is pretty slick. So I'm connected to Wi-Fi right now, but you just click the network here and you can scroll through all the connections. Right here is my Wi-Fi connection, and I'm connected to. Here's my VPN. Now I like the vet. It pins the VPNs to the top, and I can just hit connect, and it lets me know, and it puts a little icon in there. Unfortunately, I'm in the office, so I can't show you a little lock icon that goes over the network, but because it's Wi-Fi, it's got the Wi-Fi icon, and then a little lock shows up next. We're very similar to this little lock right here to let me know that I'm established connected to VPN. I also like that when you disconnect from wireless, it goes, okay, it just doesn't jump on auto reconnect, and when you connect back, it goes, okay, I want to auto reconnect to that each time. So I don't want to drop off the wireless for a moment, but it also has an airplane mode and the hard line network mode, and they will show up in here. It's easy enough to configure all the networking. You just go right in here to the configuration, and then you can go into Wi-Fi security. I like that you can show the password. I'm not going to show you my password, but you can show password for previously configured Wi-FIs, and that's pretty handy to do. That way, if you wanted to know what it was, you can always get it back later. Also when you do click the show Wi-Fi, it stays shown, so you can read it, type it, or copy and paste it back into the clipboard or wherever you want to put it. Here's also how you configure. I have wired DHCP and wired manual. Now the wired manual is pretty slick because I can type in a manual IP address. Matter of fact, you can put in multiple IP addresses in here if you wanted to multi-home your network, but this is pretty clever because I can go and change this or DHCP, and it lets me know when it's last used. I do this when I'm on-site at a lot at clients, and I also like the decluttering. They don't show up here as an option because there's nothing plugged in. When I plug it in, it has the two options, wired DHCP or wired manual. And the manual, like I said, often if you're configuring a new network, the DHCP server is not set up, I have to go configure it. You can call this whatever you want. I'm simple and call them each thing like that. But the nice thing is you can go there and just hit connect. And it also defaults, so if it tries DHCP and it doesn't work, it just automatically drops to wired manually. It goes, okay, I'm trying to get an address. It didn't get an address, but it's going to drop over to wired manual. Also, if you build a whole lot of connections in here, you can go through and search through them. This is also handy because when I'm configuring the network connections, I like to create sometimes if I have to jump between networks, I'll create two different wired manuals, and I'll give them the name of the IP address they're related to. And it allows me to very quickly just keep clicking and switching between the networks back and forth without having to type in any IP addresses. I can't see how happy I am with the way that works. That's a super handy feature. And I don't understand this about Windows. I'm not trying to harp on it, but when I switch networks in Linux, it's absolutely instant. I click it, it just switches right now. Windows has this, let me think for a little while, while I switch your network stack. I can jump back and forth between two different IP addresses that I might be hooked up to pretty much immediately. There's no delay. There's no, you know, anything like that. Also, you can, inside of each of these, customize your own methods of security for that. On the VPN, you can get in here and do customization to the VPN part. Something interesting when you first set up a VPN in here, and this is using OpenVPN, and you're setting it up, use only for resources in a network is not typed, which means it by default wants to reroute all of your traffic over the VPN. I don't always want that. So I have it checked to only use that as it's kind of weird because it's kind of inverse thinking only used for these connections means don't route all of my traffic, only look for local things on that network. So that kind of takes care of the VPN and the networking. It works really well. The only side note I have is when you load OpenVPN, there is an extra module you have to load. And I can leave a link below to what that is. Yep, that's the package I had to load. Network Manager OpenVPN. It's really weird, OpenVPN settings are there when you try to connect to an OpenVPN, but it doesn't actually work because it tells you it's missing the crypto libraries and you can't choose them. The pull downs are all empty. So this was the quick install workaround for that. I guess it just doesn't come with the proper crypto. It's got the VPN shell, but not the backend. So suwrap, get installed, Network Manager, OpenVPN, and it unlocks all the OpenVPN features so you can connect to OpenVPNs. So back to some of the other customizations in here. Close that. I'm going to minimize this, leave system monitor open. The way the file system works, I left this at default and I am really happy with it. So the Dolphin File Manager is the default file manager in here and it lets you do some kind of neat stuff. So if we go here, and I probably got some screenshots in here. Yep, screenshots that I've grabbed. Now this is the GWEN view, which is also a default viewer. And it kind of worked hand in hand because once you open up one picture, it opens up a separate viewer and I can jump through screenshots that I took because this is where all my screenshots folders land. And I can also browse things as a bunch of thumbnails or close it without having to watch thumbnails in here. But you can also jump here and watch things as thumbnails. Nice little animation. Then you can zoom in and out. I'm just holding control and the mouse to zoom in and out for that. Do this, I can sort by modify. The buttons are right over here. Now the plus and minus has confused me a little bit. But once you get used to the plus and minuses, they're actually really slick. So the plus and minuses are because everything is single click open. So this is a single click to open the GWEN view. But if I wanted to select the file instead, I just go here, I click the little pluses and I can select a bunch of files at the same time. To do as I want with. Now, the other thing too, it supports full tabs. So we can just go over here, open a new tab. Now I have a different tab for that one. Open a new tab. Makes it really easy to move things between a bunch of files and keep everything consolidated without having to open a whole lot of windows. And you can right click and do a detach tab to break it out into another window if you wanted to. I don't think there's a way to reattach a tab. Yeah, it doesn't have an option to reattach it. Pretty cool though, the way the file manager works. I've been really happy with it. I wasn't a big fan of the single click because you'd accidentally open things you didn't want to open. But once you get used to it, it's actually super handy to do. Let me pull up my graphics file here. I think I have some stuff in here. Random graphics that we use for things, same stuff. I can go in here and say just jump to browse and create thumbnails. I know this is separate from the actual file manager, but obviously it makes finding things really, really fast. And even on my laptop here, like I said, it's not as powerful as my desktop. This works really, really well. Now, other interesting thing is this will work over a network connection. So if you mount a share across here, you can go in and use that share mount to use the same browsing tools and same file manager. It all works in there. So does SFTP, same as in Ubuntu. Where you can just go up here, control L, SFTP, colon slash slash, and where you want to go to. And right now I'm right into another computer. Let me see if I have some files I can do. This is actually my free NAS box. And this is over an SFTP mount. So this could even be a website. You can see that I can go in here and see everything. So it takes a little more time. It's a little bit slower when it's doing it this way. But really cool, and I've used this when I'm editing websites, I can just jump into a website and use the viewer to find things. I'm really impressed with the level of integration it is. Works with SMB, SFTP, and it's really nice. The integration level is great. Now, if you want, and I've added some things to my favorites, you can add things to there. And if I wanted to create a link to this, I can add this to my places. And then I would be able just to immediately click and have that added to the places here on the side. Now it says server, and it remembers that connection. So if everyone wanted to jump to it, I just jumped to it. I've created a handful of them on my desktop machine. I don't have as many on my desktop because I don't really use them as much. I don't have frequent places. My laptop, I use it a lot, but I don't frequent places like that. Most of my laptop time is either configuring a customer's network or just reading stuff at home. So we're going to remove it from the favorites there and go back to this. So I just want to show you those few features of the desktop. I'm really, like I said, it works so well. It works so smooth. I really don't have any complaints. The only bug, and I can't, I can't file a bug report because I can't make it happen consistently, is if you get a KDE wallet error. And what the KDE wallet is, let me open up the wallet. Where do we find that here? There we go. It is where your passwords are stored for things such as your Wi-Fi. So it actually keeps them in its own special wallet system that's part of your encrypted on the encrypted folder within your data store for your user. That's cool, but one of the problems I've had is it just decides to stop working. The only way I've found to get it to properly work again is to reboot the computer. If you don't reboot, you'll run into all kinds of weird little issues trying to bypass the error that comes up, which does enter your password, but it won't let you enter your password for the wallet. I don't know. Kind of a weird bug. I've only been able to have it happen once or twice, and I know rebooting fixes it. I've seen people complain about it. You can't really remove it, but pretty minor. I really haven't had any other issues with Kaden Live. I've actually been using it on both my laptop and my desktop for a little while. Most of the OBS right now is using up the system resources. As you can see here, Plasma. Let me move it around some. Just doesn't use a lot of processing power to do all this fun eye candy that we see here. But I made you some more follow-up videos. If you have questions, comment. Leave the comments below. If you'd like to catch in here, like and subscribe. But like I said, this is just a little follow-up to the Kaden Neon system and how well it works. I've not been happier with a distro in a long time. It's so polished and works so well. All right, thanks.