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In the last few weeks, I’ve been using the Plasma Desktop full time in Ubuntu with the Kubuntu Backports PPA enabled. This way I can get the latest version of this desktop environment on Ubuntu 18.10. The latest Plasma Desktop version is 5.14 and it’s really amazing. On my hardware, it uses less resources than Gnome Shell, although it takes more time to get to the destkop. And the best part is not having the Gnome Shell process eating up more than 1GB or 2GB of RAM (even after the garbage collection patches)....

GTK: Ant Nebula (slim standard buttons) https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1099856/ Shell: Ant Nebula (slim standard buttons) Ícones: Plane https://www.opendesktop.org/p/1178976/ Cursores: Breeze [parte do Plasma] Wallpaper: https://alpha.wallhaven.cc/wallpaper/699858 Typeface 1: FiraGo Regular https://bboxtype.com/typefaces/FiraGO/ Typeface 2: Fira Code Retina https://github.com/bBoxType/FiraSans

Yesterday, I had to reinstall Windows 10 on a computer because the owner was complaining it was too slow. After a successful, albeit slow, reinstall, I had to change the language. This computer had Windows in English and the owner wanted it in European Portuguese. So, after reinstalling the OS, I selected the European Portuguese language in the system options (or whatever it is called) and chose the pt-PT langpack....

Image from the addon page Image from the addon page Lately, I’ve been switching between Gnome and Plasma. Both are great desktop environments and, like all the other software in the world, both have some shortcomings. So, this is not a flamewar post, nor is intended to start yet another one. Yesterday, I logged on a Plasma session and opened Firefox to check my email, social network accounts and read the news....