Folks, what’s your favourite desktop environment for #Linux?
I like the look of Budgie but cant seem to perfect my display settings such that I have a decently consistent UI between an old and a new monitor when using dual displays.
I have KDE Plasma (Wayland) but it takes like over a 30s to boot into as opposed to Budgies 3s? Opening a single app (eg Firefox ESR) on both environments takes 5 seconds which is bizarre to me.
But I’ll see if it has better display/scaling options.
@james wait. so, like, after the login screen it takes 30 seconds? :o
that’s enormously slow :/
❄️@james my favorite is KDE; it's really weird that it takes 30 seconds to get in, though. most of my installs take maybe 10 at max? i'm also exclusively on SSDs for boot disks over here though 🤷
budgie is really nice, i'm glad the project is still around. let us know what you settle on!
Rebooted, KDE took 23 seconds from login screen AND reset all my scaling? I must be doing something wrong.
And now the scaling setting manager is both completely different and not working (as in the scale doesn’t change)
Ngl this is quite funny but I feel bad because I can hear the eye rolls of ugh you just don’t know how to use Linux :(
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@james I have the same issue. But it doesn't bother me that much since I use gnome.
Okay, so after fun issues including freezes and scaling settings not being saved and scaling suddenly making everything blurry on my newer monitor.
I:
Switched from lightdm back to sddm
Setup Autologin in sddm.conf to boot right into Plasma (Wayland)
I got a stopwatch out:
After “sudo reboot” on my 16GB dual booted on a 1TB SDD, Debian Distro that auto logs in to KDE Plasma Wayland… with ZERO auto startup items.
65 seconds from reboot to get into KDE.
12 seconds to load Firefox.
🌊 
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To compare,
“sudo reboot”
15 seconds for Debian Grub to get to starting Windows
3 second for Windows to start up
<2 seconds for Edge browser to open
@james
Maybe this is related? https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=481870
@james Windows is using resume-from-disk as standard for shutdowns. Reboots are partially also resumes.
I misspoke when I said 8GB Ram btw. I have 16.
And just did PC benchmarking and everything is “exceeds expectations”.
Nah, nah, nope, you will get no grief from me.
I went with KDE Plasma, just because I was wanting the middle-button-paste behavior of the Konsole terminal.
Really, that was the reason.
And you are sure right, KDE starts up slowly!
LOL
So because Windows started up SO quickly, I had assumed I’d installed both OS’ on my SDD.
Nope! Both were on the HDD.
Deleted my Linux partitions on the HDD, popped Debian on the SDD, KDE starts in 3 seconds.
Still very strange to me that KDE took almost 3x than Windows on the HDD though…
@james This is just a guess, but it might be because of fast startup in windows. With fast startup enabled (which I think it is by default), windows hibernates instead of shutting down.
In my defence I was doing this wipe and reinstall at like midnight in the middle of the worst autistic meltdown I’ve had in living memory. He can install his operating system on the wrong harddrive, as a little treat.
thank you no-one for laughing at me for doing computer wrong 🥺 
@james doing computer wrong is a rite of passage.
@chirpbirb I’ve chosen KDE because once I’m finally in it, it’s configurability for my old and new monitor is better. But it would be cool to not be such a long startup.
Debian itself: 15 secs
Go to Debian login screen, login
KDE: 30 secs
App opening time: 2-5 seconds
Maybe I have to throw some money at new parts. But it’s WEIRD that Windows is much faster in all manners
Yeah, maybe I need to accept that I have to upgrade some parts.