Comment by Alupis

It was running headless Debian for a while with no issues, and Windows prior to that. The hardware is fine (it's a Dell dock too fwiw). Drives are NVMe

I'm not sure what you mean by your question.

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So I tried KDE on Debian Stable, which is a bit less broken (it gets the Ethernet preferencing correct). But still:

- Logout causes the monitor to turn off then on, introducing more delays and flickering

- Only certain application seem blessed to be permitted to be pinned to the task manager when you right click in the applications menu. For the others, you have to drag and drop. You can only drop to the left of the existing icons, not the right. You can't change the order or remove them unless you enter the editing mode which is non-obviously done by right clicking then "Show panel configuration". You are however allowed to drag the open windows around without editing? Go figure

- Switching from the Dark theme to the Light theme just crashed plasmashell

- GWenview stutters between images because its default animation is enabled, and set to software. Much better turned off.

- Dolphin "Duration" column doesn't work for videos (I checked baloo was indexing properly, including with 'content') (edit: had to fully relaunch Dolphin...)

- Display scaling set itself to 170%. Seems like an odd number?

- Konsole configuration has many options, but none that I can immediately see to change the default font size ?! Well, at least I can configure Thumbnail generation and Memory Monitoring

(edit: oh right you have to create a new Profile - oh and you can't edit the current "built-in" profile. What a mess. Steps: hamburger menu, Settings, Configure Konsole, Profiles, New, Appearance, "Choose", Apply, OK, OK... not done yet...got to make your new profile the default one..."set as default", OK. Finally, you've changed the default font. Madness!)

I don't know how anyone defends this