A Quick First Look At KDE Plasma 6

used it for about a month and its awesome. for low end computers, turn off all desktop effects and animation speed to instant and this will become as snappy and fast as xfce.

Wow, this distro is amazing

DT certainly loves his "secure and complicated password" running gag doesn't he? 😂

I stuck with Fedora Kinoite 39 but i guess i won't have to wait too long for the 40 release. Its an immutable Linux Distro.

"only gave it 6 gigs of ram" I remember when I was running KDE 3 off of 90 Meg, geeze

You said there are backport ppa's available for Ubuntu - Does anyone have a recommendation or a link ?

People have always said KDE was so "pretty" but it's only pretty if you are standing 20ft away from it or have been drinking. KDE has always lacked polish and refinement, having overall an esthetic look but being sloppy in the details. That final 1% is what makes the difference between something like OS X and a "we have OS X at home." Even Gnome 2 was better at getting the little details correct, even if the overall aesthetics weren't as fancy.

Looks the same as the previous version. That start menu can use more customization options.

Not same wallpaper except darker colors.

Gotta say you are my source for Linux since the early years of ubuntu😊

Been gone from Linux for some years but love KDE what's the difference between Wayland and x11

How to get that transparency

Can you please tell me how to fix weird red squares in gui I absolutely hate it

There are some issues when you minimize Dolphin for example, it hides de left panel. 2 weeks ago I wasn't able to restart or shutdown ( that part was fixed). Overall it still is the best Plasma distro, at least for me.

i use it at arch linux garuda and i love it so much

KDE bought me into Linux. What an amazing DE and a distro ( or non distro lol ).

Desktop are for noobs 🤪

I've switched from XMonad to plasma and after setting the eyecandy off and maximizing all the windows automatically it really suits me.

KDE Plasma 6 is very cool DE! 😍🥰

I'm surprised that you didn't check for Windows tiling

Endeavour OS implemented Plasma 6 and it came as a usual update, my OS is in shambles, I had to reinstall the entire system due to unbelievable horrible update or / and Plasma 6 itself :((

Ugly desktop UI.

Can’t wait for distros coming with Plasma6

yeah, i just switched from Arch Hyprland, to Arch Plasma, Ironically, Chromium based browsers on AMDGPU don't seem to work with hardware acceleration, or only have partial support, for example, this video is playing perfectly fine, while ... playing a browser game like Forge of Empires is impossible, and that seems to be the case on all chromium based browsers in plasma 6 :-/ using the same flags, on the same system, logging in back to hy prland, everything works fine ... ??? puzzled

I love many of the new changes, I can not get wayland to work on my main PC tho (probably has something to do with my nvidia gpu).
However I also have a laptop with AMD GPU and CPU, and most things run extremely smooth, gestures have been improved, virtual desktop management now looks and feels better (but runs on 30fps on my main PC and has some slight micro-laags depending on the apps I have opened on my laptop).
The smooth scrolling has been massively improved, smooth scrolling used to feel sluggish often, but now feels fluid and still responsive
I think overall Plasma 6 has many quality-of-life improvements that just make a lot of sense.

KDE Neon is not a distro, more of a showcase distro, should have reviewed it on a different distro.

kde 6 broke my arch install. Also it changed a bunch of settings on my other machine without asking. I don't like KDE anymore

You can even have the Desktop Cube in Plasma 6 too. 🥰

I love how they have xterm built into the terminal, how do they do that, I want to replicate that across all my linux terminals?

Why do you pronounce Asthetically as if there is no "h"? I've never heard anyone do that before. Everyone in the UK would say "Ass Thetically", with the "th" pronounced as in the word "Think". Is this a common American thing?

Why is the text so hard to read in the VM? It must be the way KDE or DT's VM Client display's text?

I don't know what it is, but I'm trying every 6 months and just cannot get warm with KDE. Too much options everywhere and the look and feel just feels like it is from the early 2000's. Kinda bland and trying to look modern but really is just missing the fine tuning to feel asethetically pleasing, friendly and actually modern.

KDE Plasma is the best desktop environment for Linux!
But I hate the default floating panel!

Where is this background. I want to download this

Nobara already switched to 6.

lol where wayland

I'm running Arch with KDE 6. So damn good. Buttery smooth!

give me back the icons view of system settings , pleeeaaase

Some ppl think running stuff on virtual machines is the same as on bare metal...smh

finally a good plasma release

Pero si es lo mismo de siempre

"They're really defaulting to Wayland now."

Me with my Ryzen Nvidia laptop who's KDE desktop still shows a black screen on Wayland: 😭😭😭😭😭

I first used plasma when it was plasma 3 lol man it feels like time to try it out again

Does anyone know a good xlr interface that I can use with linux?

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Sexy but still buggy as ever.

I like the fact that they haven't radically changed things. KDE users will find this version easy to use.

What a beauty! Looks like windows 95 with transparency and jittery windows. 15 minutes well spent.

Can it scale 125% on a 4K monitor?