Wed 2024-02-28 - Public release of Plasma 6.0

  • Baut [she/her] auf.@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    26·
    9 months ago

    KDE Plasma is amazing.
    I am happy that they do Wayland as default now, the Wayland experience has long been flawless for me. I wonder when this update will hit the Steam Deck, since gamescope is Wayland I don’t think Valve will go out of their way to enable X again.

  • madeline's old account@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    9 months ago

    it’s tomorrow??? i never keep up with any of this but i literally just installed endeavour with plasma 5 on an old laptop 2 days ago

    (just realized i posted this on my alt on accident, madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zone is my main)

      • boomzilla@programming.dev
        7·
        9 months ago

        Endeavour OS is based on Arch and therefore a rolling release distro. So Plasma 6 should come with regular updates, right?

        • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
          6·
          9 months ago

          Yes. It probably won’t be available for install tomorrow, but I’m hoping its a pretty seamless upgrade once it lands in the repos.

          • Madeline@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            it shouldn’t really matter for me anyway, the laptop i installed endeavour on is an old half broken hp pavilion that i rarely ever charge at all. i’m still excited to try it though

          • CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            3·
            9 months ago

            Speaking of seamless, I heard Plasma 6 is gonna come with Wayland as a default now. Do you think it’ll automatically switch you over or is it just for fresh installs?

            • TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca
              2·
              9 months ago

              My guess (and hope) is it’ll be just for fresh installs. That’s a big change and could break things for some people. But we’ll see!

              I might give Wayland a try, but likely stay in X for a while yet. I have a little bit of software (like KeepassXC) that doesn’t quite have full Wayland support yet.

    • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      9 months ago

      honestly yeah. KDE takes forever to start and the Klauncher and main menu are so slow they always open the wrong apps. It’s infuriating because otherwise it’s a competent DE with great customizability.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        9 months ago

        Also doesn’t have very good touch support, forget wayland vs x11, the interface of KDE just isn’t suited for touch screens, using it on the Steam Deck is incredibly frustrating because the interface is so small and requires scrolling more often than not.

  • twoshoes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 months ago

    I’m really interested. I’ve never gotten into the way KDE does things, so I’ve always stuck to gnome, but I’m always happy to see development and diversity in FOS Software. I’ll definitely check out some videos about it

    • Shark@iusearchlinux.fyi
      4·
      9 months ago

      I’ve been using kde recently and been able to get the workflow to be pretty similar to gnomes with a small amount of effort. Only thing I’m missing is when I’m in overview I don’t have access to the top bar or the dock.

  • ElectroLisa@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    7·
    9 months ago

    Already used it since first betas, glad to see KRunner changes and the way VRR is handled on Wayland. Still waiting for fullscreen tearing though

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    9 months ago

    Don’t know when MX will get 6.0 but I am excited despite not knowing what any of the new features are. All I know is Plasma looks beautiful to me and that’s why I like it.

    • 737@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      3·
      9 months ago

      Maybe it’s German time, since the organization managing the KDE project is based in Germany? So you’ll have to wait somewhere between 15 minutes and 24h + 15min.

  • loutr@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    9 months ago

    Yes ! It’s been like 20 years since I last used KDE, but I’ll install this once it’s available in the arch repo, and maybe make it my daily driver if all goes well. I like GNOME but I like tweaking my DE and I’m sick of extensions breaking every other release.