KDE just released Plasma 6, a major milestone in the evolution of the Linux desktop. Today, I’m going to take a quick first look of …
A Quick First Look At KDE Plasma 6
Man, listening to you say “aesthetics” over and over again is funnier than Rick James on the old Chappelle show. Also, it is sooooooo cute how you don’t tell the REAL reason you lost your pre-youtube job. But we in the deep state know.
The one thing Plasma 6 does that totally breaks my workflow, is the new Overview. If i set my workspaces into two rows so they are displayed in 4 corners (Like how Mac does it) The overview stops showing you the virtual desktops at the top. I’m not sure if this is intentional or if it’s a bug. But it totally breaks my workflow. This issue makes overview mostly useless for me. Also i’m probably in the minority in this, but i don’t like the new Side-Bar only settings view. I actually like the Icon view, and the nested settings. I’m probably in a minority on that one. But it’s what i like. Because of these two issues, i don’t see Plasma 6 as an improvement over Plasma 5. At least not in terms of user experience. Obviously, the backend stuff is all better. But the UX i think got worse. Just my opinion.
Not sure if you already plan on it but it would be great if you could cover the dotfiles CLI tool chezmoi. Just getting into dotfile management and I loved your video on using a git bare repo. Would like to hear your thoughts and how the two approaches compare.
Nicely done KDE, thx 4 the check👍, but what about windows alligment/management out of the box?
to me personally, KDE is settings options overload. I use it for a week max, before I just feel stressed about adjusting things how I like it. Everything is everywhere, and I never know where to look for what.
The upgrade to Plasma 6 on my KDE neon was a disaster and even on neon 6 there were issues, but the latest update seems to have fixed it. Memory out of the box on neon was always higher compared to for instance Kubuntu. neon around 815Mb, Kubuntu around 680Mb. Still no full transparency option on Plasma 6 panel. I used Panel transparency button widget on neon 5 to have full transparent panel, but that doesn’t work anymore on Plasma 6. I’ve noticed that Konsole still opens way to small. They need to fix that too. Otherwise KDE with Plasma 6 looks better than Plasma 5. Plus a lot of global themes that worked on Plasma 5, don’t work anymore on Plasma 6.
It looks great, and you can console yourself with the looks as all those crappy KDE apps start crashing.
congrats to the kde team!
single klick is better
It doesn’t work well for me. The mouse cursor is not visible when I boot to the live environment.
The background sucks but that doesn’t matter. You should always change it to what you like. My background is nothing but solid black to make it easy to see everything else.
Install fails every time!!! Any suggestions ?
Im using fedora 40 , so far so good 👍
I’m one of those ‘single click’ lovers, super convenient once one gets used to using it 🙂
Double click bad. also try win+t for setting up easy tilling.
Plasma 6 looks like it’s almost good enough for me to consider dropping Cosmic-Gnome to try it. I tried Plasma 5 several times but couldn’t jive with it. Plasma 6 seems like an intuitive and needed upgrade.
It’s barely different than 5 and we’ve lost a bunch of great extensions. I’m going back to 5.27 until stuff gets ported over.
It probably uses more memory in a virtual machine than on real hardware. If doesn’t have a gpu it will have to allocate graphics in ram instead of vram.
Plasma is my favorite floating window DE, but I am too stuck on tiling WMs (Hyprland ftw) to ever make a switch. Once you get accustomed to a tiling WM and it becomes part of your workflow, it becomes equally difficult as it is for someone to switch to a tiler when they are used to a floating WM.
I love KDE Plasma!!!