For a few days, I have been asking myself this question, “Should I switch to Budgie DE from KDE Plasma 6.1?” This is a very important question to me because I saw many comments regarding removing a DE and installing another one which made me think that, it is not at all an easy task and formatting the drive an installing everything from scratch is much more easy, at least to me at this stage.
Now why I am thinking this? I am at my initial phase of using Linux, Fedora to be specific and I have decided to stick with her, until she give me a divorce, 
I mean until anything drastic happens which I don’t think will happen in my lifetime. Now, in this initial phase, my learning phase, I chose KDE Plasma as it looks very good obviously and many people use it and recommend it. But there are two things which I found annoying. First one, whenever I boot into Fedora, I have to press NUMLOCK button on the keyboard twice, to activate the NUMPAD, and then twice again after booting when KDE comes into effect. I don’t know if it is a bug of Fedora or KDE or something else. I tested with three separate keyboards, Zebronics Transformer, Redgear Manta and Archer Astra G100 (most third class) and same thing happened for all of them. Second, I could not make the ‘Power Management’ work as I want. Whatever I set there, the Monitor turns off within 5 mins and machine goes to sleep after 15 mins. I don’t know whether these are bugs of Fedora or KDE but this started to happen after installing KDE.
Now, I was testing FEDORA SPINs lately and I have started testing FEDORA BUDGIE. At the first glance, it appeared to me as a NO-NONSENSE DE. Whether KDE is very fancy, BUDGIE is built mainly focusing towards a good work environment… for real work and I admire that. I don’t need any fancy getup, fancy look and fancy customization because I use my PC mainly for work. I love and play only one game, NFS Most Wanted - Black Edition. That’s all and that doesn’t run on Linux. So, no gaming in Linux. Regarding KDE, what I felt is that it is a bit overwhelming for a new user like me. But BUDGIE is minimalistic and it has only those things which are most essential for a smooth workflow and it is fast… real fast. I am testing it on VM. I don’t know how it will behave when it would be installed as the non-virtual OS and this will be permanent. That’s why I thought I should ask you friends beforehand who have used it, about your valuable opinions. So, please help me to decide with Pros and Cons of these two DE or any other DE I should try. I don’t want to use CINNAMON DE if it is not a must as it feels like I am using Mint, not Fedora and I don’t like Mint or Ubuntu. This is my personal preference and I don’t want a debate on it. So, please help.
Note: Before giving any suggestion, please keep in mind that, I have come from a Windows environment which I am using for last 25 years and I am comfortable with that type of environment and I am very new to Fedora a.k.a Linux. So, I don’t want such a DE in which I have to use the terminal all the time. I don’t have time for that. Hope I am not sounding rude. If so, I am sorry. It is unintentional. 
This can be changed in the System Settings app in the Power Managerment section.
You will see 3 tabs “On AC Power”, “On Battery” and “On Low Battery”.
You can change the monitor turn off time it each tab.
Let me know if you need mre details of what to change.
I just tested this on my desktop computer.
- On power in NumLock LED lights.
- During the early boot I see NumLock LED go off and flicker a bit.
- Login in KDE
- Start Konsole
- Type some text “qwewer” and press KP4 and KP6, they work as left/right cursor keys
- Press NumLock - LED stays off
- KP4 types “4”, KP6 types 6.
- Press NumLock =- LED turns on
- KP4 and KP6 work as left/right cursor keys.
From this I think you have noticed a linux kernel issue.
After boot the NumLock LED was turned off, but the keypad is in the NumLock on state.
As such I do not think its a KDE issue becuase kernel turned off the LED before KDE started.
Changing to another DE will not help in this case.
You can report the kernel bug to Fedora at How to file a bug :: Fedora Docs
I know, I tried and it didn’t work after so many tries. Even today also I tried before writing this post aaaaand it didn’t work.
This happens when I install Fedora on VM. But when I install on the SSD as working OS, it does just opposite. When Fedora boots, NUMLOCK stays ON but non-responsive and the NUMPAD doesn’t work. I have to press NUMLOCK 3 times. It stays ON at login screen. On first press NUMLOCK stays ON. On second press, the light goes OFF and on 3rd press it comes back at ON state and then the NUMPAD starts to respond. Same after booting. Same 3 times pressing of NUMLOCK.
Thanks. I will do this today.
Hmm. I also think so but I had to be sure because I am very new. I will submit the report today. Thanks for helping. 
When you make the changes and Apply them this file should save the settings: .config/powerdevilrc.
Do you see that file changing as you change the settings?
I have posted the bug here: 2310431 – Numlock unresponsive while at logon screen and after log in .
There are so many config folders!!! Where should I look??!! Can you give me the exact path? Plus I couldn’t find this powerdevilrc file.
Its ~/.config/powerdevilrc
Ok. I will let you know tomorrow. Right now I am in Windows.