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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released (kde.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.

With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

2019! yes you have been living under a rock ... it's really good if you have a fairly new machine ..

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine

It's running well on my 2013 laptop as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

It runs fine on my 2009 laptop too, it's solid

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

Well my machine is over 10 years old at this point, so I'll stay with gnome.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

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.