Kubuntu user here. Been using Gemini to remove the warts from Plasma, e.g. implementing shred (secure delete) in dolphin file manager. AI has been quite helpful getting this done. Left Linux Mint when Clem decided to drop KDE support. Reasoning made sense at the time: no enough staff to support KDE.
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I can fully understand. Either you do something right, or you better let it be.
Welcome to the forum Rob.
Thanks for your posting. I tried Xubuntu and liked it, but have not install Kubuntu.
I do not know the difference between the two.
Have a good day.
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agreed. I meant to say not enough staff to support KDE. Fat fingers.
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Thanks, Howard. KDE used to stand for Kool Desktop Environment. It is highly customizable I will say and fairly current. I moved from KDE Neon as the devs there were putting out (failed) updates that caused me problems. I have had few issues with Kubuntu. I originally left Ubuntu because the devs dumbed down gnome removing certain functionalities I needed. You can almost always find some distribution that does what you want. So many choices in linux.
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So you do not subscribe to the modern idea of put something out there and let the consumers debug it?
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I donāt care what the actual research says - I prefer light text on a dark backgroundā¦
thatās how I read e-books on my iPad mini too!
EVERYWHERE I can I have set to ādark modeāā¦ I donāt think itās a fashion trend! Iāve been setting stuff to ādark modeā before ādark modeā became a thing, or a specific choice! Like the default in most terminal appsā¦
Note : I AM red-green colour-blindā¦
Note 2: Iāve been wearing reading glasses on and off since I was 11ā¦ Iām 64 in a few weeksā¦
Just the thought of huge areas of WHITE pixels (RGB 255,255,255) gives me a headacheā¦
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That is the essence of it. Dark neutral backgrounds do not glare.
I have had some satisfaction with very dark red background.
Coloured text works best on a dark background too, because coloured text is usually bright.
Remember CRT terminalsā¦ they were dark with white or green or orange text.
White background only came in with graphic terminalsā¦ white is the new fashion not dark.
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Interesting. I might have to give that a try. When I was in the Army, I remember red light at night was suppose to be the best for viewing.
Right now, I have everything that will let me set to dark mode. Oh yes, I remember the old dumb terminals (CRT). They were huge like the old tube TVās back in the day. I actually wrote the first program to display information on these old tubes where I worked. 1974 (?)
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I had a 19 inch crt monitor, at work ā¦ it barely fitted on my desk.
They were terrible on the eyes, but a big advance on teletypes.
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