First look at the Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Spin!

In today's (unscripted) episode of Veronica Explains, let's try out the fantastic Fedora 36 KDE Plasma Spin!

We'll check out Plasma, Fedora, Wayland, and see how it all stacks up. It'll be fun!

All music recorded by me, on Linux, of course!

Chapters:
00:00 Intro
03:25 My goofy old laptop
03:55 Finding the spins
04:52 Going through the installer
08:55 Starting up Plasma
10:17 Updating and installing software
15:47 Screen sharing with Zoom and Wayland
17:26 New Plasma Overview
18:43 Customizing hotkeys and the desktop
20:00 Parting thoughts

#Fedora #KDE #Linux

[TatharNuar]

This is the first of your videos I've seen, and I love the vibe! (And that Amiga bouncy ball!)

[dakkon]

I'd like a dual boot vid, and/or one that shows how to run off an external SSD. I really want to explore linux outside of a VM, but still worried about giving up my Windows setup.

[andrewpalm]

I've used the Fedora Xfce spin since version 28 with no real problems to speak of. I still have it on my backup laptop (in a dual boot with Windows so I can do my taxes once a year), but I moved my primary machine to Debian 11 Xfce (with the non-free network installer) because the constant kernel updates became tedious for me. (And I'm 75 and all those new-fangled things like btrfs make me nervous.) I have VS Code installed on both distros and it works the same, although language versions (e.g., go) are usually newer on Fedora. I added the VSCode repo to get it. I always enjoy your your videos, Veronica. Cheers from Wisconsin.

[theena]

Exactly what I needed from the Fedora universe. I can't bring myself to get on Gnome. Thanks for the review, Veronica.

[tfksworldoflinux]

Totally agree! I haven't distro hopped in years since switching to Fedora KDE. The Fedora community could indeed advertise the other spins a bit more. 👍

[EXTEZZEE]

I would like to say I have been a Linux user since 2010 or little before, possibly 2008. I am getting Old, Hahaha. You did a great Job/service holding new users by the hand walking them through Fedora 36. Very fun to listen/watch you. In case you have not done the other videos, you asked about if we wanted you to make. You better make them. Lol, No other YouTuber does a complete walk through, like you. Great job. I am thanking you for the new users out there. Please make videos of other Distros like arch/Manjaro, Debian, etc.

[josepalacid]

Hi! I've fallen on this video (a little late) searching for kde on Fedora and loved it. I've been watching some other videos from your channel and I like the way you explain and edit your contents. Keep it up!
Liked, subscribed and belled!

[eznix]

Excellent video! I loved the demos of doing stuff and testing software along with the look at Fedora. Thanks. 😀

[ShaunakHub]

Have always been a Fedora + KDE user. Even when I try out some other distros, it is always their KDE variant except Solus - for which I used their in-house DE.
KDE is leaps and bound ahead of its competition (for me) not because it is more 'Windows like' but more because almost all other DEs miss out of basic stuff. The most prominent case in point is Dolphin - I mean there is not one file manager which is even half as capable of it in Linux or Windows (can't say about Mac, never used it).
As per Fedora team, they are working on an updated Anaconda Installer :-)

[Claude-tjud]

First time watcher, thanks to YouTube algorithm. Great video! I really like the way you present an explain things.

[Tom-ntti]

I came for the cute puppy!!!😃 Stayed for the Spin!
Thanks for another great video Veronica

[rsupp]

Had some problems while running MX Linux 21.1 ahs but after watching your video, I installed Fedora 36 KDE, am happy to see that Fedora KDE has been running super smooth. I would have never looked at Fedora but when you said ''I think this distro deserves a lot more love from the Linux community and it does not get the attention that it deserves"; that is what inspired me to check out Fedora. Thanks Veronica ! Keep up the good work !

[afrofantom]

first time viewer caught sight of the repair manifesto, knew I was in the right place lmao. More power to you !

[arynoso]

Great, review, Veronica, I´ve been using Fedora + Gnome since... well, ever, and your video gave me the push to try KDE.
Cheers from Buenos Aires, Argentina!!!

[noah]

This is a very helpful video, especially showing me the installation. I would also love a dual boot video for fedora

[xeno]

The repair manifesto poster is just incredible
Great video btw!

[EstebanGT]

Thank you so much for an awesome video and I completely agree this spin deserves more attention.

[Mrpolar]

This was an amazing review! User oriented, with the right amount of technical comments. Thank you so much! Subscribed

[riskin]

Hi Veronica, great video as always, and I appreciate the deeper dive into KDE as a lot of the Fedora 36 content I’ve seen has focused on the gnome spin. One of the reasons I’ve tended to hew closer to Debian/Ubuntu-based distros compared to Fedora is my relative lack of familiarity with rpms vs deb packages. I’m a “capable beginner” with apt and apt-get but for command line futzing with rpm environments I’m much less familiar. If you could do a video comparing deb vs rpm based systems, that would be fun and interesting! Keep up the great work!

[travisb]

High quality videos! Great job Veronica!