A week with Mint KDE 13 RC
Install was painless.
Audio did not work out of the box. Unistalled pulseaudio, and removed HDMI from output choices. All better!
Had a couple crazy bugs with Dolphin launching on logon for no reason??? Also on one reboot, had a bunch of stuff start on logon that would restart when closed, required me to go to a virtual console and restart KDM… Don’t know what caused this, thankfully it did not reproduce.
A few control panel options did not apply when closed and required manual editing… I don’t remember which ones they were.
It’s KDE, and it’s still resource intensive. This one seems to be very hungry. I’ve a fairly decent setup and although I could see higher resources being used, I generally could not see a significant slowdown. One thing I did notice that shouldn’t be was very high cpu cyles used on large file transfers. This load should be on the SATA bus, and I have no idea why this load was taxing the cpu.
This just removed this distro & it won’t be my alternative to GNOME3.
Currently I’m test driving Mint LMDE with xfce. From what I’ve seen so far I’m hoping I don’t get a ticket. Yes, it’s quick!
