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?

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    I’m wondering why the entire community is collectively shitting themselves over a minor overhaul, when other DEs have been making big swinging changes.

      • just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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        7 months ago

        You mean “swinging”? I’ll also bite. Things that would make me switch:

        • incorporating Valve’s work
        • Simplifying KDE apps and menus
        • Fix the fullscreen composite issues
        • Fix dbus access for apps launched via KDE
        • Hone the media controls like GNOME
        • Fix Kwallet so it doesn’t crash on every unexpected error
        • Stop the constant refresh rate negotiation for VRR and make it not blank screens
        • Stop the unnecessary userland restrictions for devices like USB ports
        • Stop secondary mounts to remote locations just because I connected that one time
        • If the secret store isn’t working, just say so. Don’t loop and ask me if I want to relaunch

        All fairly low-hanging fruit.