Plasma - any hope for my laptop?

[Gerald B. Cox]

On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:

>
> > What does not been happy mean?
> > That is a bit vague.
>
> Really? I would have thought my complaint was very concrete -
> KDE does not run on my laptop.
>

Sorry...  Not to me.  "happy" is an emotional term... and "does not run"
isn't any better.

>
> > If you are talking about resource requirement
>
> Does a "resource requirement" include having a GPU
> that Plasma likes?
>

If you're asking if Plasma supports a particular GPU, I'm not aware of a
list.  I can tell you
that KDE Plasma definitely has issues with hangs, freezes, etc. and they
aren't limited to Nvidia,
amd or intel... they seem to be pervasive.  Of course you get the normal
finger pointing with the
KDE crowd blaming the device drivers and the device driver folks blaming
KDE.  However, in my
instance the problem didn't occur with KDE4, doesn't occur with GNOME and
doesn't happen with
LXQt.  You can draw your own conclusions from that... Yes, I've created bug
reports... provided
trace info... asked if I can provide any additional info to help resolve...
crickets...

>
> > would recommend you try out LXQt.
>
> Do you know anyone who is running LXQt on an nVidia T61?


No...but IMO it is definitely worth the time to try out LXQt.  I will
eliminate Plasma from
the equation and may work fine for your hardware.  It is extremely simple
to try:

dnf groupinstall lxqt
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