Ok it’s installing now. I set a username and password, but didn’t get a choice to encrypt the startup disk?

@schlink i think you'd need LVM for that...

@LogicalDash yeah.... that makes sense

phew, OK *hacker voice* I'm in

hm well Kubuntu looks cool but I'm having some weird issues.

- can't log in to Spotify app via Facebook
- having to enter my ssh passphrase nearly every git push
- `gem install <gem name>` is getting a timeout error

Maybe I took Pop_OS's breeziness for granted!

I'll get back to it after a break.

@schlink >ssh passphrase
it's because of no ssh-agent (or wrong settings for one). i have this in my bashrc, helps:
if ! pgrep -u "$USER" ssh-agent > /dev/null; then
ssh-agent > ~/.ssh-agent-thing
fi

Plasma 5: *taps on wall of your cubicle* Hey. I heard you said you like customization and settings

Update: so this morning the same Ruby gems I had tried earlier installed successively. Sooo... all good?

And I _think_ I solved the ssh key problem, thanks to @leip4Ier and this instructions https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/SSH_keys#ssh-agent

woohoo, feeling more at home with Kubuntu and Plasma.

I moved my single panel to the top of the screen, set up some global shortcuts for moving windows around (love how I can do corners out of the box, unlike GNOME), and styling Konsole to match my Vim colorsheme (v important!)

One potential bug: when I switch Workspace Theme Look And Feel, my Task Switcher seems to revert to the default Visualization (which is Breeze)

womp-- Konsole asked me for my ssh key's passphrase again today (after restart), so still have to work that out.

Is their a KDE app that offers a GUI for managing shh keys? In GNOME I think GNOME Keyring handled it for me. Does KDE Wallet handle ssh keys well?

@schlink Ah, you're looking for something that automatically unlocks your SSH keys when you log in to your desktop session, then?

@schlink what I've always done, even on macOS, is put the command in my .bashrc/.bash_profile folder to add my SSH keys, just felt easier to manage that way and when GNOME did that stuff for me I sometimes forgot which keys i did/didn't have available.