Desktop configuration
Created by: Lester Caine, Last modification: 12 June 2025
Hardware
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600G with Radeon Graphics
- Memory: 27.3 GiB of RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon Graphics (integrated)
- Motherboard: Micro-Star MS-7C95
- Storage: 1Tb SSD, 8Tb SATA
Software
- Linux: openSUSE Tumbleweed 20250502
- Kernel: 6.15.1-1-default (64-bit)
- KDM Plasma: 6.3.5
- KDM Framework: 6.14.0
- Qt: 6.9.1
- Graphics: X11
Display Configuration
The fun with sorting a desktop display setup is documented on the linked page, but here I'm logging just what I am using currently for reference.
- Plasma Theme - default openSUSE
- Application Style - Fusion ... for it's scroll bar
- Windows Decoration - Plastik ... for it's clean windows header bar
- Icons - Breeze
- Cursors - Breeze Light (54pixel) ... for it'stext cursor visability
- Colours - openSUSE with a yellow accent
- Text & Fonts - 16pt with 192DPI
Not so critical ... Splash Screen - openSUSE and Login Screen - Breeze
Support applications
See Application catalogue for more details
(as of 04/05/2025)
| Avidemux - 2.8.1 Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. |
| Beyond Compare - 5.1 (build 31016) Beyond Compare handles a wide variety of comparison tasks. It has specialized views for different kinds of files and different approaches to reconciling differences. |
| calibre - 7.26.0-x86_64 calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager |
| Dolphin 25.04.0 Default file manager on the KDE desktop with add-ons for additional file processes. |
| Eclipse IDE for PHP Developers - 2025-03 (4.35.0) No longer functional ! Eclipse development framework tools for PHP, including PHP language support, Git client and editors for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS and XML. |
| Firefox - 139.0.1 (64-bit) Web browser from Mozilla that works transparently across all devices. Tabs on mobile phone can be followed up on desktop. |
| FreeCAD - 1.0.1 A multiplatform, customizable and extensible software that allows you to design and modify 3D models with parametric features. |
| Gwenview - 24.12.3 Image management software that is a dafault on the KDE desktop. |
| JOSM - 19342 JOSM is an extensible editor for OpenStreetMap |
| KiCAD - 9.0.2 KiCad is a free software suite for electronic design automation. It facilitates the design and simulation of electronic hardware for PCB manufacturing. wxWidgets 3.2.8, FreeType 2.13.3, HarfBuzz 11.2.1, FontConfig 2.16.0 libcurl/8.14.1 OpenSSL/3.5.0 zlib/1.3.1 brotli/1.1.0 zstd/1.5.7 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.5 libssh/0.11.1/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.65.0 OpenLDAP/2.6.8 Boost: 1.88.0, OCC: 7.8.1, Curl: 8.14.0, ngspice: 43 |
| LibreOffice - 25.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community LibreOffice is open source alternative to Microsoft Office and in many cases handles even older Office documents cleaner than Office does itself. |
| MakeMKV - v1.17.9 MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. |
| Picard - 2.13.3 Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database |
| PDF Arranger - 1.11.1 Small python-gtk application, which helps the user to merge or split PDF documents and rotate, crop and rearrange their pages using an interactive and intuitive graphical interface. |
| qBittorrent - 5.0.4 The qBittorrent project aims to provide an open-source software alternative to µTorrent |
| Thunderbird - 128.8.0esr (64-bit) eMail client that used to be integrated with Netscape browser before that was forked to Firefox |
| Visual Studio Code (VSCode) 1.100.3 Visual Studio Code is a free code editor which can be extended to support different programming languages. DevsensePHP extension is being used to provide verification support for PHP8.4. Electron: 34.5.1, ElectronBuildId: 11369351, Chromium: 132.0.6834.210, Node.js: 20.19.0, V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0 |