I’m using as daily driver Fedora KDE 44 on my desktop and Kinoite 44 on my laptop. Everything working just fine, set both up the way I need them. However, wanted to have an idea how Kinoite will do on my desktop.
So, I now have both Fed KDE and Kinoite installed side by side on my desktop:
Separate ssd’s so that they do not interfere with each other.
What I did not expect is: Kinoite seems much snappier, everything is smoother. Of course, the way to use apps is a bit dif, using flatpaks and distrobox for most stuff in Kinoite, but … why is it snappier? It does not make any sense to me.
Can anyone enlighten me why is a dif between them? Again, not complaining about normal Fedora KDE, works like a charm and my workflows are simpler of course in it compared to K.
Hmm, didn’t think about that. Changed that in fedora kde to 100, does not make any dif. I checked 125 as well, same peformance. I’ll do more tests, but for now I think I will use Kinoite for a while.
Yes, there is: kinoite is on a gen4 m2, and fedora kde is on a gen5 m2. Both m2s are fury, 2 tb. So in theory fedora kde has a slight advantage vs kinoite.
Just the opposite of what you would expect.
I also use Kinoite and I must say I also have the same feeling about the speed as you have, Kinoite feels a bit snappier. I however have 1 disk with only Kinoite, but I have used the regular KDE version not long ago and when starting with Kinoite again I also had the idea it was snappier. Good to know I am not the only one.
I do keep more apps installed in fedora kde as native dnf, compared to k that has the vast majority as flatpaks. And in normal kde, i freely used the dnf to remove apps i do not use. Anyway, will do some more tests when time allows it.
