Introducing KDE for Students
Make your #study sessions more productive, compose papers with ease, and ace your #finals with KDE. Our apps and Plasma desktop will give you all you need to succeed during your studies and in #academia... and will even run fine on your old laptop!
This looks cool!
lets you update whenever you want (e.g. not before a big deadline)
This is such a big plus, I was extra cautious that an update would break something right before finals
Any resources on dual booting? I didn't have a great experience with it and I feel like students may prefer that for the programs that only offer windows / macos support.
University courses are usually "we only offer support for Windows & MacOS", so a lot of students may give up on Linux unless they have the backup.
What I've understood thus far on dual booting is that it's never really safe unless you keep the two OS installations on different drives with each its own boot partition, so you never risk of one overwriting the other.
You can still try to install on a single drive, but, unless things have changed, you should make sure that Windows (don't know about macOS) is installed first and then you install a distribution second, you'll have trouble if it's a Fedora immutable flavor though because in my experience that erases the boot partition as well
@QuazarOmega @otter if you plan on using bitlocker with windows, make sure to keep that recovery key handy. Updating grub/the kernel might trigger changes to the boot settings of your device, locking windows.
Getting a cheap device from a thriftshop for your second os should be considered as an option. Just my 2ct.
Seconded, fortunately Windows makes you save that immediately after enabling it so I still had that key on me and Fedora has the ability to mount BitLocker encrypted drives so I was able to recover all my data
Hell yeah, here’s to hoping for wider adoption. Keep on truckin’.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I tried to install some of the apps listed there but they are not in the arch linux repos. Is there any other way to try them?
Which ones are you missing?
@kde@lemmy.kde.social @kde@floss.social The exact ones are Francis and Marknote, from your KDE for students page. Thought that was weird because almost everything is in the arch repos or the AUR
@nirogu @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social have you searched for them on flathub?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @torben Just searched them. The packages are Francis and Marknote, from the KDE for students page. Found francis in flathub (although Id prefer native package) but I'm starting to think marknote doesnt even exist yet, idk
@nirogu @kde@lemmy.kde.social @torben
Some of these apps are quite news and have not made there way into many mainstream distros yet.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @torben Okay, thanks!
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