I like Plasma but the bug where the OS goes to sleep when using a joypad is pretty frustrating. It's an old bug now too.
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I love KDE. Been using it for 10 years
One question i've always had though... Does anyone actually use the default KDE software like konqueror, kmail, kontacts, etc? Why not just focus on the desktop environment?
Yes, using them is probably the closest one can get to the macos ecosystem on Linux.
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Yeah I use a lot of KDE software, main reason because it fits so nicely with the desktop and it also integrates functions with Plasma so usage is even smoother. One of the main applications I do not use from KDE are browser, I use LibreWolf (the desktop integration package+plugin does quite a nice job for integration here), and LibreOffice,
That software played a much bigger role back in the day (i.e Konqueror's. KHTML was forked by both Apple and later Google for Safari and Chrome), so it's kind of a proud legacy. Konqueror is deprecated though. The other apps are useful for KDE mobile.
But the real reason people work on them is "cause they wanna"
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All that matters is… THE CUBE IS BACK BABY!
THE CUBE IS PROOF KDE IS RUN BY THE PEOPLE
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Nice. I've kept coming back to try Plasma for years and years, but there's always been some jank, bug, complete lack of polish, or random annoyance that forced me off it again.
Much of these have been improved with Plasma 6, and I'm glad that they took extra time to release rather than quickly shoving it out, a la Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5. To be blunt, those two were an absolute mess. It was only around 5.15 where it started getting stable enough to really use.
The only big showstopper in Plasma 5.27 for me was the lack of proper session restore - if Kwin crashes, it takes all my work down with it. Plasma 6 will be fixing that.
I think I'm going to try this on my laptop once Fedora 40 releases
Compliments to the devs, it's a thankless job sometimes
and I’m glad that they took extra time to release rather than quickly shoving it out, a la Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5.
As far as I can remember, this was also the fault of some distributions that wanted to release Plasma 5 quickly, even though the developers of Plasma pointed out existing bugs.
Well yeah, about session restore. In X11 mode it is better. But on Wayland, well it is missing completely, since Wayland does not support it just yet. KDE developers are pushing hard to make it happen in Wayland and in the meantime they are also working on workarounds.
Excellent, thanks for this info.
How long until this trickles down into the major distros?
It's just been merged to master for NixOS. Next stable would be 24.05
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/286522
https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=286522
It will reach Slackware about 6 months before the heat death of the universe.
It's currently in Arch Testing.
It's not hard to install from testing actually, may give it a shot..
However, one should first read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/official_repositories#Testing_repositories and consider whether it is really worth the risk.
For my part, I will simply wait until Plasma 6 arrives in the official package sources.
Yeah I hope it's quick. Really fun upgrade.
If I had to guess, I would say that the updates to Plasma 6 will be offered at the end of the week or in the course of next week. But I'm not an Arch developer, so that's really a guess.
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Fedora 40 (April) should have it I think
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i've been using rc2 for a couple of weeks and it's really good improvement over 5.27, which was also a quite solid release.
HELL YEAH