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**For this review, I choose to check out KDE Neon. The first Linux DE I ever used was a KDE DE, in Knoppix Linux. That live CD included KDE 3.x, and it didn’t really impress me. Within weeks, I jumped ship to Ubuntu [Dapper Drake, so you can do the math to figure out how long ago that was, lol] which ran Gnome 2.x at the time.** | **For this review, I choose to check out KDE Neon. The first Linux DE I ever used was a KDE DE, in Knoppix Linux. That live CD included KDE 3.x, and it didn’t really impress me. Within weeks, I jumped ship to Ubuntu [Dapper Drake, so you can do the math to figure out how long ago that was, lol] which ran Gnome 2.x at the time.** | ||
- | Pour cette critique, j'ai choisi d' | + | Pour cette critique, j'ai choisi d' |
**Because of the move, I have basically steered clear of KDE itself [not “KDE software” such as k3b, amarok and k-connect]. I must say, though, with this latest and greatest version of KDE Plasma [pretty sure that’s what they call KDE 5.x], I am thoroughly impressed!** | **Because of the move, I have basically steered clear of KDE itself [not “KDE software” such as k3b, amarok and k-connect]. I must say, though, with this latest and greatest version of KDE Plasma [pretty sure that’s what they call KDE 5.x], I am thoroughly impressed!** | ||
- | Suite à cela, je suis resté à l’écart de KDE (pas les "logiciels KDE" | + | Suite à cela, je suis resté à l’écart de KDE (pas les « logiciels KDE » tels que k3b, amarok et k-connect). Néanmoins, je dois dire qu’aujourd’hui, |
**So ya know, my test laptop [it’s my only laptop really] specs: | **So ya know, my test laptop [it’s my only laptop really] specs: | ||
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• 4 Gigs of RAM** | • 4 Gigs of RAM** | ||
- | Donc vous savez, mon portable de test (c'est mon seul portable en fait) possède les spécifications suivantes:\\ | + | Donc vous savez, mon portable de test (c'est mon seul portable en fait) possède les spécifications suivantes: |
- | - Presario CQ56 Notebook PC 058D\\ | + | • Presario CQ56 Notebook PC 058D |
- | - 64-bit AMD v140 CPU tournant à 2.3Ghz\\ | + | • Processeur |
- | - AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4225[integrated] graphics\\ | + | • Carte graphique |
- | - 4 Go de RAM \\ | + | • 4 Go de RAM |
**Remember I ran this test by live booting a usb flash drive, and not by doing a minimal or full install. Now saying all that, and my intro and my laptop specs, let’s get to my review, shall we?** | **Remember I ran this test by live booting a usb flash drive, and not by doing a minimal or full install. Now saying all that, and my intro and my laptop specs, let’s get to my review, shall we?** | ||
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**I was impressed, right off the bat, at the boot speed, even live booting from my flash drive. [But then I saw the horrid default wallpaper which was quickly changed!]. Once fully booted, I opened the system monitor and in a terminal I ran $: top** | **I was impressed, right off the bat, at the boot speed, even live booting from my flash drive. [But then I saw the horrid default wallpaper which was quickly changed!]. Once fully booted, I opened the system monitor and in a terminal I ran $: top** | ||
- | J'ai été impressionné, | + | J'ai été impressionné, |
**I was impressed at the low low low cpu and ram usage. During my testing, I kept top open [less resources than the gui system monitor] to keep an eye on things. Considering KDE has, in the past, had a rep of being “resource hungry”, it seemed to be just the opposite to me. I know that when I tested pop_os, which runs Gnome-3 as its default DE, it used measurably more ram and cpu cycles than KDE did. I can only imagine how snappy it would be if I had it installed, even with my measly 4 gigs of ram… So, no longer can I suggest steering clear of KDE if you have limited resources on your machine. Then again, I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest it on “older” hardware, like stuff built to run Windows XP or earlier. [My laptop is a Windows 7 era machine].** | **I was impressed at the low low low cpu and ram usage. During my testing, I kept top open [less resources than the gui system monitor] to keep an eye on things. Considering KDE has, in the past, had a rep of being “resource hungry”, it seemed to be just the opposite to me. I know that when I tested pop_os, which runs Gnome-3 as its default DE, it used measurably more ram and cpu cycles than KDE did. I can only imagine how snappy it would be if I had it installed, even with my measly 4 gigs of ram… So, no longer can I suggest steering clear of KDE if you have limited resources on your machine. Then again, I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest it on “older” hardware, like stuff built to run Windows XP or earlier. [My laptop is a Windows 7 era machine].** | ||
- | J'ai aussi été impressionné par le faible taux d' | + | J'ai aussi été impressionné par le faible taux d' |
**While I know that having the ability to tweak everything may scare off some noobs, however, in my opinion, that ability is one reason Linux is so good! Windows and Apple/Mac severely restrict what can be changed, Linux on the other hand, in theory, encourages you to experiment. KDE excels at that idea. ** | **While I know that having the ability to tweak everything may scare off some noobs, however, in my opinion, that ability is one reason Linux is so good! Windows and Apple/Mac severely restrict what can be changed, Linux on the other hand, in theory, encourages you to experiment. KDE excels at that idea. ** | ||
- | Bien que je sache que le fait d' | + | Bien que je sache que le fait d' |
**The settings program is well laid out. The flow makes sense. The options are clearly stated. There are very few complaints from me on this front. One thing, though, I didn’t care for the wallpaper changer. It honestly took me a few tries to figure out how to change the wallpaper properly – I didn’t notice the watermark type icons for ‘folder’ and ‘delete’ over the preview of the selected wallpaper. Maybe those options should be below the image, or brighter. I also didn’t like the lack of choice for how to set the wallpaper. In many DE’s, you can change aspect ratios of the image to match the screen IN the wallpaper choice. Granted you can open a photo editor, like GIMP, and do it; I feel there should be the capability built into the chooser. I also didn’t like the lack of “explanation” of the difference[s] between “folder” and “desktop” choices in the same menu. ‘Folder’ seems to make an allowance to have, well, folders, on the desktop, whereas ‘desktop’ seems to not allow that… so that’s what I used as I like a clean desktop! | **The settings program is well laid out. The flow makes sense. The options are clearly stated. There are very few complaints from me on this front. One thing, though, I didn’t care for the wallpaper changer. It honestly took me a few tries to figure out how to change the wallpaper properly – I didn’t notice the watermark type icons for ‘folder’ and ‘delete’ over the preview of the selected wallpaper. Maybe those options should be below the image, or brighter. I also didn’t like the lack of choice for how to set the wallpaper. In many DE’s, you can change aspect ratios of the image to match the screen IN the wallpaper choice. Granted you can open a photo editor, like GIMP, and do it; I feel there should be the capability built into the chooser. I also didn’t like the lack of “explanation” of the difference[s] between “folder” and “desktop” choices in the same menu. ‘Folder’ seems to make an allowance to have, well, folders, on the desktop, whereas ‘desktop’ seems to not allow that… so that’s what I used as I like a clean desktop! | ||
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- | Le programme de configuration est bien conçu, les enchaînements d’écrans ont du sens et les options sont clairement présentées, il y a très peu de critiques de ma part à ce sujet. Une chose cependant, je n'aime pas le changeur de papier peint. Il m'a fallu honnêtement | + | Le programme de configuration est bien conçu, les enchaînements d’écrans ont du sens et les options sont clairement présentées. Il y a très peu de critiques de ma part à ce sujet. Une chose cependant, je n'aime pas le changeur de papier peint. Il m'a fallu franchement |
**Now let’s look at the apps in the live setup. This is one area I didn’t care for. There were so few apps in the live setup; if I didn’t know better, I’d think that KDE Neon didn’t support many apps. Now I know that it is a live edition, used to preview the OS, but, still, it seemed pretty anemic as far as apps go. I know that this is something we see in a lot of “live” OSes, but not in all. I don’t understand why they didn’t show off some of the KDE apps in the live, especially with so many solid choices.** | **Now let’s look at the apps in the live setup. This is one area I didn’t care for. There were so few apps in the live setup; if I didn’t know better, I’d think that KDE Neon didn’t support many apps. Now I know that it is a live edition, used to preview the OS, but, still, it seemed pretty anemic as far as apps go. I know that this is something we see in a lot of “live” OSes, but not in all. I don’t understand why they didn’t show off some of the KDE apps in the live, especially with so many solid choices.** | ||
- | Regardons maintenant les applications de cette distribution | + | Regardons maintenant les applications de cette distribution |
**By default, it seemed to support the video and audio codecs most commonly used. Not just HTML-5 videos played. I couldn’t test an mp3, but considering I had no issues with flash in Firefox, I am of the assumption mp3s would play just fine by default. If not by “default”, | **By default, it seemed to support the video and audio codecs most commonly used. Not just HTML-5 videos played. I couldn’t test an mp3, but considering I had no issues with flash in Firefox, I am of the assumption mp3s would play just fine by default. If not by “default”, | ||
- | Par défaut, la distribution semble supporter les codecs vidéo et audio les plus couramment utilisés et pas seulement les vidéos HTML5. Je n'ai pas pu tester un mp3, mais vu que je n'ai eu aucun problème avec flash dans Firefox, je pars du principe les mp3s seront très bien décodés par défaut. Si ce n'est pas le cas, c'est probablement une option à cocher dans le processus d' | + | Par défaut, la distribution semble supporter les codecs vidéo et audio les plus couramment utilisés et pas seulement les vidéos HTML5. Je n'ai pas pu tester un mp3, mais vu que je n'ai eu aucun problème avec flash dans Firefox, je pars du principe |
**In my review of pop_os, I mentioned the hotkey combo of “control” + “alt” + “T” not opening the terminal. I didn’t know if it was pop_os related or Gnome-3 related. At any rate, I was glad to see that the key combo worked in KDE Neon by default. It was also nice that other hotkey/key combos worked. For switching virtual desktops, the “alt” + “tab” even had 3 or 4 options to change the look and feel of the app switcher! [Yeah, I like some fancy stuff. I switched to a “cover flow” look, actually I tried all the options!].** | **In my review of pop_os, I mentioned the hotkey combo of “control” + “alt” + “T” not opening the terminal. I didn’t know if it was pop_os related or Gnome-3 related. At any rate, I was glad to see that the key combo worked in KDE Neon by default. It was also nice that other hotkey/key combos worked. For switching virtual desktops, the “alt” + “tab” even had 3 or 4 options to change the look and feel of the app switcher! [Yeah, I like some fancy stuff. I switched to a “cover flow” look, actually I tried all the options!].** | ||
- | Dans ma critique de pop_os, j'ai mentionné que la combinaison de touches de raccourci " | + | Dans ma critique de pop_os, j'ai mentionné que la combinaison de touches de raccourci " |
**Throughout the testing, the OS felt stable, ran smoothly, and overall impressed me! The only time the CPU usage was high was when launching Firefox. That is, in my opinion, probably Firefox related as opposed to OS related. So overall, it wasn’t resource hungry! Speaking of resources, and hardware, I was also delighted to find an in-depth system info app in the live version! That’s nice as, if something doesn’t work, you can get the specific info on what the piece of hardware is.** | **Throughout the testing, the OS felt stable, ran smoothly, and overall impressed me! The only time the CPU usage was high was when launching Firefox. That is, in my opinion, probably Firefox related as opposed to OS related. So overall, it wasn’t resource hungry! Speaking of resources, and hardware, I was also delighted to find an in-depth system info app in the live version! That’s nice as, if something doesn’t work, you can get the specific info on what the piece of hardware is.** | ||
- | D’une manière générale et tout au long des tests, la sensation de stabilité et de fluidité m'a impressionné ! La seule fois où l' | + | D’une manière générale et tout au long des tests, la sensation de stabilité et de fluidité |
**Anyhow, if you want a nice, solid, configurable, | **Anyhow, if you want a nice, solid, configurable, | ||
- | Au final, si vous voulez une distribution belle, solide, configurable, et d'une certaine manière, sophistiquée (ou capable de fantaisie) à essayer, pensez à KDE Neon ! J'ai été assez impressionné pour me tenter | + | Au final, si vous voulez une distribution belle, solide, configurable et, d'une certaine manière, sophistiquée (ou capable de raffinement) à essayer, pensez à KDE Neon ! J'ai été assez impressionné pour être tenté |
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