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How would you customize KDE Plasma for a window user? (lemmy.kde.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've almost successfully convinced my girlfriend to ditch Windows, so I'll probably install kubuntu on her laptop soon. She uses the pc only for very basic operations, web browsing, office suite and a little bit of gaming.
I wanted to customize KDE Plasma so that the switch from Windows will be the simpler as possible. What customization would you suggest me?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Change from single click to double click to open!

I guess theming would make a lot of the work, I don't remember the names but there are a few plasma themes that aim to mimic windows 10 and 11. If not the entire theme, the icons at least would make it way more intuitive.

For the office suite you might want to check out OnlyOffice(or even freeoffice), it probably looks more modern and less jarring than libreoffice for someone coming from recent versions of MS Office.

The start menu also has versions of it more similar to the windows one, but the standard one Is much better, maybe it's a change she can get used to.

Make sure the desktop is in Folder View, so she can put files and folders on it, and set Dolphin's view to the one she's used to, icons or details.

I'm not sure for gaming, but maybe check beforehand if hers work on kubuntu.

Finally I'd make a post-it explaining the names of programs: dolphin - > file explorer, Kate - > notepad, ark - > 7zip and so on. The most frustrating thing is looking for a program that should have an obvious name and finding only unknown nicknames, it takes a while to get used to!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you very much for the detailed answer!
Installing OnlyOffice is an amazing idea, the UI is really similar to MS Office

And also the post it is great, as long as she learns to use it

Thanks!