Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI)

After the tutorial on how to install Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop this tutorial is mainly to see what to expect from a freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop – the look and feel of the new KDE GUI (version 5.27.4 of KDE Plasma). The Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop is part of Fedora spins – https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/
Here the user can find how to Install Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop (KDE GUI). Here it worth mentioning the included versions of KDE software for Fedora 39:

  • KDE Plasma version: 5.27.8, upgradable to 5.27.10
  • KDE Frameworks version: 5.110.0, upgradable to 5.113.0
  • QT version: 5.15.10, upgradable to 5.15.12

The idea of this article is just to see what to expect from Fedora 39 KDE Plasma – the look and feel of the GUI, the default installed programs and their look and how to do some basic steps with them, it is included also screenshots of the KDE settings program. Here you’ll find more than 250 screenshots and not so many texts we do not want to turn this review of many texts and version information and 3 meaningless screenshots, which you could not see anything for the user interface because these days it is the primary goal of a Desktop system. You can expect more of this kind of review in the future. The big missing is the Kate Advanced Text Editor, which is not installed by default in this release.
This article is the first part of reviewing the Fedora 39 KDE Plasma. The second article contains KDE System Settings screenshots and it is Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 KDE Plasma Desktop part 2 – System Settings.

Some of the interesting screenshots

  • Logging
  • KDE Plasma Overview with Panel Toolbox
  • Fedora KDE main menu
  • Plasma Widgets
  • Activities
  • Install/Update applications with Discover
  • review of multiple installed GUI applications and games.
  • Dolphin – the KDE File Manager
  • KWrite – Text Editor
  • Kontact – manage email, calendar, contacts and other personal data with one application. It includes KMail, KAddressBook, KOrganizer, Akregator, and more.
  • KDE Partition Manager – manage disks and partitions.
  • Konsole – KDE’s Terminal Emulator
  • System Monitor – monitor the system.
  • KFind – Find Files/Folders – advanced files and folder search.
  • KGpg – a simple interface for GnuPG. A powerful encryption utility.
  • Klipper – clipboard manager for the KDE interface.
  • And more!

Fedora 39 KDE Plasma screenshots

SCREENSHOT 1) Fedora (6.5.6-300.fc39.x86_64) 39 (KDE Plasma)

main menu
grub entry boot

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Review of freshly installed Fedora 39 Workstation (Gnome GUI)

After Install Fedora Workstation 39 (Gnome GUI) – the look and feel of the GUI (Gnome – version 45.0).

  • Xorg X11 server – 1.20.14 and Xorg X11 server XWayland 23.2.2 is used by default
  • GNOME (the GUI) – 45.0
  • linux kernel – 6.5.6

The idea of this tutorial is just to see what to expect from Fedora 39 Workstation – the look and feel of the GUI, the default installed programs, and their look and how to do some basic steps with them. Here the reader finds more than 259 screenshots and not so much text the main idea is not to distract the user with much text and version information and 3 meaningless screenshots , which the reader cannot see anything for the user interface, but these days the user interface is the primary goal of a Desktop system. Only for comparison there are couple of old versions reviews, too – Review of freshly installed Fedora 38 Workstation (Gnome GUI), Review of freshly installed Fedora 37 Workstation (Gnome GUI), Review of freshly installed Fedora 36 Workstation (Gnome GUI) and more.
For more details about what software version could be installed check out the Software and technical details of Fedora Server 39 including cockpit screenshots. The same software could be installed in Fedora 39 Workstation to build a decent development desktop system.

For all installation and review articles, real workstations are used, not virtual environments!

SCREENSHOT 1) Fedora Linux (6.5.-300.fc39.x86_64) 39 (Workstation Edition)

main menu
grub 2.06 entry boot

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