Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

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Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

Thank you. I didn't phrase it as well as I could but what I meant was no magnetic, physical hd spinning on a spindle. What I was looking for was the OS to get out of the way a bit. I'm still learning but I don't need a lot of hand holding by the OS/Desktop. I'll look up LXDE as well. If it doesn't

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

Thank You, that looks good. I hate to admit that I probably gave my parents grief by disassembling lawn lowers, clocks, etc. but in a few years I could disassemble and reassemble the engine in my Plymouth with just a few hand tools. I guess I'll always be a bit of a tinkerer. Blessings, Paul On F

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

I feel a strong need to clarify your intent... You DO intend to have a storage device, right? Because "Sans hard drive" and "Solid State" don't NECESSARILY add up to "I'm using a Solid State Disk..." The way I see it, there are two ways of interpreting your request: 1) You are buying a computer

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

Paul: I recently installed Slackware 14.1 KDE on a SanDisk Extreme Pro 2.5" 240GB SATA III SSD. Works fine, just like a magnetic drive. Wayne On 02/05/2016 10:02 AM, Vedanta Teacher wrote: > Everyone, > >I was thinking of picking up a solid state lap top with no physical HD > and installing K

Re: [PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

If you’ve thought about BSD, check out PC-BSD. Its desktop ready and has a pointy-clicky installer. http://www.pcbsd.org/ You shouldn’t have any issues with SSD. Trim support was added about 2yrs ago. > On Feb 5, 2016, at 10:02 AM, Vedanta Teacher > wrote: > > Everyo

[PLUG] Any thoughts on installing KDE/Plasma on a Solid State (sans HD) Laptop

Everyone, I was thinking of picking up a solid state lap top with no physical HD and installing KDE/Plasma. From what I've read and heard KDE is a bit resource hungry but its been around a long time and the support seems stable. I don't know if there are issues installing KDE on a solid state.