Just to get it out of the way: I’m a bit older than most you. I’m an old school FOSS contributor: Slackware, couple kernel merges, and some weak device driver contributions.
I’m just not WOW’d by this Plasma release. I’m seeing the news everywhere, and it seems everyone is clamoring to get it, but it mostly seems like 90% cosmetic changes, no? I must be missing something.
Here are the things I’ve gathered are non-cosmetic:
- Update to QT6
- Better Wayland interactions (HDR notable)
- Compositor improvements for gaming
Everything else seems like eye candy. I feel like Gnome and forks, or Xfce have been faster to the fight on these things, and this KDE release took many years. So what do I have wrong here?
This one is a big thing. Lots of stuff changed between qt5 and qt6, so it was a massive effort to get done. They also used this “rewrite” to clean up the code a lot.
Yes people seem to undermine “background” related updates, but they should pause and appreciate having a stable and secure system