Only issue for me is that the KWin scripting API doesn’t work the way it did so my custom shortcut doesn’t work.
Really needs more stability and to solidify its modifying features, not have them a bit everywhere. Really cant have a black screen bug every time I put my PC/Laptop to sleep
Overwhelmingly positive.
I use the wayland session on an Intel machine with no dedicated GPU, works flawlessly for me.
works fine for me, didn’t really see any big issues.
99% positive. Wayland works flawlessly. HDR didn’t cause issues (all AMD hardware).
The only issues I have off the top of my head are
1: Some icons in the system tray and system settings menu (the ‘Clipboard’ icon on the dock and the ‘Touchscreen’ tab in settings, and a couple others) display as a blank rectangle sometimes. Other times, they display as they should. Haven’t even bothered looking for a solution as it doesn’t effect usability in the slightest.
2: Certain pop up menus for dock applets, ie the Bluetooth applet, display incorrectly. I actually saw a post of another user having this issue, where the window only shows as a small square, and can require a re-log to actually make it work.
Other than these minor glitches, nothing has given me any issues.
To 2.: I only had that issue appear when launching Firefox or Vivaldi. Might have been a custom widget. Wiped my install and now the issue is gone? Sadly wasn’t able to diagnose the issue any further
Works very well. Only issue is missing ported extensions and the cursors lol.
For some reason all cursors made for plasma 5 are blurry, so the existing “breeze plasma 5 cursors” dont work that well.
And I miss “minimal desktop switcher” as the Plasma 6 alternative just makes Plasma desktop crash for some reason.
Mostly positive althought there has been no shortage of bugs. That said, when I did a clean installation (not an upgrade), most of them disappeared, so I guess I’d recommend a fresh install. I still wouldn’t say it’s as stable as Gnome or Cinnamon, but the trajectory KDE have been on when it comes to making their DE less janky has been amazing recently.
There’s been a lot of subtle UI improvements that make KDE feel a lot less disjointed, although you still see it here and there.
The improvements to the overview (Gnome activities view clone) are great.
Compared to the absolute shit show that was Plasma 4 and 5 for their initial releases, Plasma 6 is amazing. It’s still not my DE of choice, but I keep it on one of my systems just to see the progress.
Absolutely unusable for one big reason: still no good tiling options in KDE. They got me hopeful with their tiled area system but then dropped the ball on execution. An OS without tiling is functionally unusable for real work. There aren’t even any good KWin scripts for it. At least Windows has stuff like FancyWM. Will not be using any time soon. GNOME, with the ability to install Pop Shell 2, is by far the superior DE, and it’s not even close, and I’ll stick to that for most things and a WM/compositor (in this case Hyprland) on my main machine. KDE is and will continue to be trash until they can add true tiling support. Might as well some 1980s looking WM like OpenBox. That’s what KDE is. Old and unusable. Nothing else they “improve” matters since the core of operations doesn’t function.
I don’t really want to give some of your hyperbolic statements credibility by replying, but - I’ve been loving Mudeer for tiling. I’m not sure if it qualifies as a true tiling window manager and my setup does straddle the line between tiling and floating, but it works great for me.
I’ll give it a look
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Chill dude. Bismuth for Plasma 5 was amazing, and Polonium is shaping up to be a great succesor on Plasma 6. This is open source. You can fight and support your cause. But your attitude would make Pop Shell devs burn their own project down out of fear 😅.
Bismuth for Plasma 5
Nah. I couldn’t get behind Bismuth either. You had rigid ways you could arrange your windows with no way to adjust.
For instance, you can’t get a layout like this with Bismuth (or any dynamic tilers that I know of, i.e. dynamic tilers aren’t worth using):
--------------------------------------- | A | B | | |--------------| |----------------------| C | | E | F |--------------| | | | J | K | ---------------------------------------The closest in Bismuth would be using master and slave like:
--------------------------------------- | A | B | | |--------------| | | C | |----------------------|--------------| | E | J | |----------------------|--------------| | F | K | ---------------------------------------Which isn’t nearly as useful
I gave Plasma a genuine, honest try, both 5 and 6, and it was a complete let down.
But your attitude would make Pop Shell devs burn their own project down out of fear
Nah bc the Pop Shell devs have done an AMAZING job. The new COSMIC will make KDE and GNOME look like pet projects when it drops.
It’s pretty good! I wish System Settings was less confusing/overwhelming and it had more graphics tablet options, though.
It’s like al KDE projects IMHO. Good on the surface and works well. But use it for any length of time and you will find problems, unfinished areas, or parts where it was implemented without considering why it was like this in the first place.
For example, plug your 1080p laptop into a display with 4K and watch are your desktop icon gets sorted by a-z randomly instead of keeping the order you had it.
Or try to add a calendar even to your system by clicking the calendar which is found in the date and time on the taskbar.
Online accounts added to the system do not integrate into other KDE apps requiring additional signin.
I feel this is probably caused from KDE’s team being small, but having a large suite of apps.
Sounds like you have a pretty okay experience but some specific things don’t work - please take some time to report bugs if you haven’t yet!
I’ve moved away from KDE for a while now. Been using Cinnamon since.
And most of my “bugs” are more missing features than anything.
Poor integration with Google was a major reason to go back to Gnome.
What’s the value of to do app, calendar, events if I can’t have it synchronized across devices.
I recently switched from being a long time GNOME user over to KDE Neon. It has been a nearly flawless experience.
My biggest complaint so far is the lack of NFS support in Dolphin, which I use for my NAS. GNOME Files had native support for NFS. Now I have to manually mount from CLI and then it’ll show up in Dolphin (eventually I’ll setup fstab, but haven’t done it yet).
How is experience with mounted samba drives?
I found that apps don’t see them easily, which is a usability problem.
Have you considered smb? Dolphin natively supports it.
I have both but prefer NFS over it for speed. SMB before multichannel used to choke pretty hard on Linux. It’s better now, but NFS is still the better protocol.
Argh I found out the same thing about NFS! I was so confused!
You can still put it in FStab though, if you want it accessible on boot. :)
Yeah I’m going to do that when I use my machine next. Was just nice having it as a favorite shortcut on the side and only mounting it when I needed it.
Works great for me. I’m on X11 for now as an application for work refuses to work with Wayland - support page and I haven’t tried figuring out how to get it to use Xwayland.
Now that I think about it, I had one issue with screen tearing but that was more a driver issue with Nvidia.
I tried it on my laptop. Apps that used to run without any problems would terminate randomly. I also tried it on desktop with AMD video card and didn’t observe this issue.
Overall i went back to gnome 3 days later.
It was a bit rocky coming over from Plasma 5, but settled in nicely now.
