Just dumped GNOME for good! Could use some pointers...

[Richard Troy]

On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Ben Bonacci wrote:
> 
> Hi Richard and welcome to the KDE community! :)
>
> As for finding places to get pointers, the forum (https://discuss.kde.org) 
> and the chat rooms (https://go.kde.org/matrix/#/#kde-community:kde.org) would 
> be the best places to check out. There is also the developers' mailing list 
> (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel) for more technical 
> questions.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
>

Thanks Ben!

...I've gotten a number of private replies as well as public ones such as 
yours, and this group is really helping me feel welcome! THANKS! And I 
still have more to reply to tonight if I can.

That said, last night after I hit-send on the email you all received from 
me, I found that the system lost sound?! Log out and back in, reboot, etc; 
nothing easy worked.

As I run a server farm, and there's usually a spare sitting around 
somewhere, so I swapped out the disk and proved quite easily there's 
nothing wrong with the hardware. However, KDE says, "No input or output 
devices found." Hmmm...

I'd just installed a bunch of packages, trying to find the right scanner 
software and, while doing that, I stumbled over this thing called 
Kdenlive, and installed it, too, since I'm both curious and have some 
video editing to do. ... I suspect it's the Kdenlive that did it, but if 
anyone can comment, the list I installed was:

gimp   scanlite   sane   gscan2pdf   simple-scan   kdenlive

If anyone has a clue where I should start looking, it's appreciated as I 
still have a lot of work to do to understand just where I _should_ be 
looking to solve issues like this. ... But this is NOT why I'm writing!

I'm writing to say thank you, not just to you, Ben, but for everyone's 
warm welcome!

Cheers,
Richard