Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Playing with KDE Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2025 13:27:55 -0700 Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <1078icn$1hvg0$1@dont-email.me> <108njim$rvie$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Ex9WxZQoV8e0kMssaqN5rAlBainzAQTznXJWWI71avNJmQI6r1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ehvTQ+AWuSZnxJm4qRvkbDO59vU= sha256:8tN2jx3KIjrO6+5tXsmoqVcX5SoKYYCpTv8mBl3Es0s= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <108njim$rvie$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:45201 Dr. Noah Bodie wrote: > Alan K. wrote: >> Well, a few days ago I loaded Feren OS. It's an interesting KDE DE >> on the surface. Similar settings app like others. It's the >> updates, update manager, and file manager that threw me. Feren >> uses the same synaptic and update manager that Mint uses. Same >> front end to apt. > > I am trying it now and it does not look very impressive. Also I > can't find "Kalarm" in the repo and I use that app daily. Kalarm for Ub distro/s is in the Ub universe repo. If that repo isn't enabled, you won't see it. I try a lot of live distro/s and I like various KDEs, but I've never tried Feren. I'm reading an interesting bit in the DW entry for it: > Prior to November 2020, the distribution was based on Linux Mint and > included an edition with the Cinnamon desktop. LM last KDE release was in '17. Now I'm kinda curious what Feren has done w/ their KDE. -- Mike Easter