Hi,

I have been using KaOS for one week so here is my feedback & suggestions. I have not review all post so apologies if any of these points had been mentioned before.

1. A minimal install is badly needed - there are many default apps that I would never use or have to replace.

2. Calligra is simply not good enough, it cannot handle .docx files. There was a .docx file that I cannot even open with Words. I replaced Calligra with Libreoffice.

3. Neither Koqueror nor QupZilla work well (for example no 1080p in Youtube) so I had to install Firefox.

4. Flat screen as extended desktop did not work - I was not able to move Mplayer to my TV. Unified the outputs worked, but I had to restart the system due to glitches right after when I changed to unified outputs.

5. When I connect my laptop to the TV there are 2-3 pauses (ie blank screen for 1 sec) during the first 2-3 minutes. When the pauses are over the system works well.

All in all this is a great distro: nice, well integrated, stable, fast, cutting edge apps (but not bleeding edge - at least I have not found any issues). I had to do some changes after installation but I am quite happy with KaOS - good job and kudos for the developers!

Thanks.

mzperx

1. For those who know KaOS, there always is a minimal ISO available. Announced stable will always be a full ISO though.

2 @ 3 ISO is a showcase for KDE/Qt apps. Everyone knows Libreoffice, Calligra needs more exposure and is fully KDE (and for many users it is plenty). Browsers are always wrong, no matter what you ship, 80 % do not want the selected browser, so Qupzilla is a good Qt based starting point, lightweight, hardly any size, by far best option for very limited hardware. ISO is also GTK free (and will always stay that way). It is up to the user to add apps based on another toolkit, so all "big" browsers are out (Chrome, Firefox, Opera, etc, all are GTK based).

4 @ 5 Screen glitches will hopefully be resolved with Qt 5.6, there are many known issues which are all waiting for the supposed fixes in Qt 5.6

Thanks for taking the time to provide your feedback :)

2 months later

Opera certainly is GTK based, try and remove gtk2 from your system then run Opera (pacman -Rdd gtk2)

That a KCP package mentions wrong deps is very common, does not mean that is correct.