KDE Plasma 6 Is Awesome & I Still Can't Use It

[@whentheyD]

so here's the thing with KDE Neon, it's really not intended as anything other than a KDE Software testing environment, and the single maintainer of it has admitted as much in a conference this year.

[@DSTechMedia]

Wow I wish I had known that.

[@Not.DantoPlays]

what a flex talk about a girlfriend and linux on the same sentence.

[@kadircelikYT]

🤣

[@TheCharlos64]

I installed Linux on my girlfriend's laptop. Tada ! And it's true. Her laptop works far better ahahah.

[@martykong3592]

: ) THANKS MUCH as your explanations help me realize WHY some distros KILL my keyboard : WAYLAND Vs X ? OMG! LOVE KDE, BUT lost cube etc, and Plasma 6 is in my searching. ALL the BEST and Cheers ! : )

[@CheckTechNow]

Compiz, oh good old days

[@Juso3D]

The G-nome users are going to hate how you call gnome that, lol. Prefer KDE myself also (though been trying out Cinnamon on mint for a little bit now), will eventually get back to it, or maybe after redoing my i3wm config...again lol.

[@legendboyAni]

The best kde experience you will get is in Arch, fedora or opensuse tumbleweed and not in kde neon

[@DSTechMedia]

Someone else mentioned that Neon is a testing/beta distro, but I always thought it was just a bleeding edge official distro. I thought of it kind of like Fedora.

[@Mxmcking]

It's not easy being a Gee nome user these days

[@DSTechMedia]

I knew I would get these for saying it that way. But even if I called it Guh-nome I'll get people saying it's silent-G nome. The best is people who want to argue over the name of you-bunt-too, or Ew-Boon-Too.

[@JayBayrak]

whooooohooooooooooooo ! :D

[@DasMooorhuhn]

I have to try it... it looks so good

[@TheCharlos64]

Missing auto tiling for me to use it. But i prefer kde over gnome. But i still use gnome for that exact reson.

[@DSTechMedia]

Auto tiling like the way PopOS does it? I like how they do it because it's always there if you want it.

[@armagedon515]

I agree, KDE is the most advanced Linux DE and looks way more modern. It equal Windows. Gnome distros that I have tried over the years are imo, quite primitive and too simplistic. I install Kubuntu 24.04 on a few machines friends and with a proper theme, it looks awesome. I am testing Kubuntu 24.11 and Manjaro KDE plasma 6 also. It is going to be a lot better but it is too unstable right now, especially with Wayland, to make it my main working OS. It is coming there fast, especially with Manjaro.

[@Junky1425]

You mean Kubuntu 24.10, because it is already out and works really stable for me, but didn't had so much time on it

[@zordanxxx]

KDE looks better than Windows out of the box.

[@armagedon515]

@@Junky1425 Yes you are right, it's 24.10. I corrected it. Btw I cannot install any plasma 6 global themes in 24.10. Can you ? The same themes works perfectly in the Kde Manjaro plasma 6 (6.1).

[@armagedon515]

For an obscure reason youtube refuse to take the correction. ????

[@Junky1425]

@@armagedon515 I never did that on any KDE env where i work on, which global theme did you try so i can also try it

[@johanb.7869]

It's Guh-nome, not Gee-nome😉 Double click is bloat and I prefer Xfce anyway. KDE is to bloated. KDE is very customizable yes, but you can't place the aps indicator on the bottom. I don't like them on top. And still no fully transparent taskbar option. You need a widget for it.

[@whentheyD]

the options you're asking for are bloat

[@DSTechMedia]

Wait, what do you mean you can't place it on the bottom? The entire panel can be on any side of the screen, or even split into two different panels. The transparency i would think could be solved with a theme, but I haven't tried it yet.

[@johanb.7869]

@DSTechMedia that's not what I meant. On top of an app like for instance Firefox or Dolphin on the taskbar there is a horizontal line. That line you can't place on the bottom. With Dock like plugin on MX panel, you can place it on top, side and on the bottom.

[@МаксимСоколов-д4я]

Bloated crap!

[@Chalisque]

KDE's light enough for anything remotely powerful. It runs fine on a T420 circa 2011, for example. Going for a lighter weight DE gains nothing significant unless you have really underpowered hardware.

[@МаксимСоколов-д4я]

@@Chalisque KDE 3 was the last useful version. After that, KDE developers went nuts.

[@Chalisque]

@@МаксимСоколов-д4я Oddly enough, I liked KDE 1 and ran it for a while. KDE's 2 thru 4 I disliked so bad I'd written KDE off. Only last year or so I had another look at KDE, now a later version of 5, and was pleasantly surprised. Now I run it exclusively unless I want a gui in a vm, and then run xfce of lx, but that's rare these days.

[@YERAFirearms]

You can always stick with your terminal and do admin work only.

[@whentheyD]

​@@МаксимСоколов-д4я spoken like a true jank enthusiast if it was so good, why did nobody fork the DE and maintain it, ala MATE?