FYI: an interesting video on How KDE Plasma 6 Was Made
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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Just look at that lineup. Plasma 6 is absolutely awesome.
Always been more of a gnome guy, but 6.0 is making me look over the fence with a little envy! Kongratulations to the KDE team and community. Fantastic work.
Congratulation to the KDE team! Well done!!
is plasma any good yet? I last used it in like 2019 and it was too buggy. I've heard it's gotten better, but I haven't had the chance to test it
I tried it couple days ago as a (relatively) happy gnome user. Cannot install Chinese input method via gui, I also don't think there is gui for fingerprint registration either.
Just jumped back to gnome.
Personally, I enjoy gnome workflow, like GUI, hate system maintenance, and like to keep everything as vanilla as possible. And I think KDE is probably not for people like me.
Played with it a while ago. Nice looking but feels bloated in general. Mind you. I lean on pretty light Distros, KDEconnect and a few of their other apps are top tier, though.
2019! yes you have been living under a rock ... it's really good if you have a fairly new machine ..
it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine
It's running well on my 2013 laptop as well.
It runs fine on my 2009 laptop too, it's solid
Well my machine is over 10 years old at this point, so I'll stay with gnome.
Well it does not even have to be fairly new, at least I do not consider my 8 years old PC as fairly new at all and it still is really good. As that is also one of the areas where Plasma has improved a lot during the years, they really have made it quite lightweight. Especially when considering how powerful and feature-full and configurable it is.
Is a PPA planned for Kubuntu 23.10?
I think the Kubuntu folks are mostly working on polishing Plasma 5.27 for Kubuntu 24.04 right now, but I would bet that shortly after its release we'll see 6.0 in the backports PPA.
I doubt that'll be available for 23.10 though, as it'll mess up the upgrade to 24.04.
I look forward to the havoc this will cause with all my themes and widgets in the coming weeks lol.
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