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KDE Plasma 6 Is Now 'Fairly Livable' (phoronix.com) 23

Posted by BeauHD from the development-updates dept.
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham believes that Plasma 6 is now "fairly livable" and recommends KDE developers and power users / enthusiasts start giving it a try. Phoronix reports: He characterized Plasma 6 as: "Basically everything in Plasma compiles with Qt 6, and at this point Plasma 6 is fairly livable. To give you a sense of how livable, it's good enough that over the past 2 months, I've gone on three KDE-related trips from the USA to Europe, with my only computer running Plasma 6 in "current git master" state, with work-in-progress merge requests applied! Its stability has been good enough that this has caused me no apprehension, and indeed, it's been totally fine on each trip. So seriously, if you're a KDE developer or an adventurous user, start living on Plasma 6! Jump right in, the water's fine. :)"

He went on to write more about the current development activities around Plasma 6. He also shared his personal beliefs around Plasma 6.0 release timing although no official release schedule is yet to be determined. Nate's belief is that Plasma 6.0 will likely be ready for release sometime between December and March.

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  • Agreed (Score:4, Interesting)

    by ArchieBunker ( 132337 ) on Monday June 19, 2023 @07:38PM (#63616700)

    Upgraded Debian on my laptop and KDE is looking pretty good. This time the battery level works consistently and not every fifth boot. Yes it was a KDE thing because I could check the battery in a terminal just fine.

    • This time the battery level works consistently and not every fifth boot.

      Are you talking about laptop battery power, or some other? I don't use my laptop for much, so all of my work in on my desktop. I have never had a problem with KDE >= 4.0 reading my USP power level, but it has never been able to read my wireless keyboard's power. Hell, it doesn't even see my wireless keyboard, though it sees my wireless trackball just fine. I've always thought that was weird.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by XanC ( 644172 )

      You're running Plasma 6 on your newly-upgraded Debian? Are you sure it isn't 5.27?

  • Although most people have moved to laptops so never mind.

    • Re:2023 will be the year of the Linux desktop! (Score:4, Interesting)

      by caseih ( 160668 ) on Monday June 19, 2023 @10:46PM (#63617010)

      Been using Linux on my desktop and laptop for many years now. Less issues than Windows. It's been the year of Linux on the desktop for 20 years or so, at least for me.

      I was running KDE 5 for quite a while on Fedora. It ran well and I loved how configurable it is. But something about KDE never quite looks right to me. I'm not sure what it is. I always end up back on Mate. Hits the sweet spot.

      It's interesting because my first years with Linux were not so comfortable, with desktops like FVWM that were rather awkward and clunky. I wasn't nearly so comfortable with Linux back then, but when KDE 1.0 came out, it instantly made my computer usable again (other than the single click business), nearly at the same level as Windows 95. That made Linux for me. For reasons that I can't recall, I ended up on Gnome 1.0---which was buggy as all get out---and for some reason stayed with Gnome through 2.x and now to Mate. So I owe a lot to KDE, even if I don't use it. Thank you, KDE! Glad you're still here and thriving.

      • When they said Linux on the desktop they meant normal people not people who can install an OS with nothing but a stack of 5.25" floppy disks and the did command.

        • Re: (Score:3)

          by dargaud ( 518470 )
          15~20 years ago I gave an ultimatum to all the family members I had to IT support. I was so sick of cleaning viruses on Windows. Either get a Mac and do it all yourself, or I install Linux and manage it for them (remotely). 1/3 took the 1st option (the younger ones), 2/3 for Linux (the older ones). Nobody has switched or complained since and when there's a problem a quick phone call and an ssh login usually fixes it. Yup, grandma uses Linux for recipes and grandpa uses it to manage his coin collection. And

          • Yup it's great that you manage it for them. That works for any OS. Lemme know when grandma is doing her own kernel patches.

            I got my 84 year old mom a windows laptop around 2015. Set it up on a monitor, kn, mouse, printer, etc for her. She has never once pulled it off the docking station so it's essentially a desktop. After a few rounds of fussing to tweak things the way she likes I haven't had to do anything since.
            Auto install windows updates. Check the virus scanner once a year. That's it.

            But she al

            • Re: (Score:2)

              by pjt33 ( 739471 )

              Lemme know when grandma is doing her own kernel patches.

              Does your grandma do Windows kernel patches? If not, why bring them up at all?

              • Of course she does. As mentioned, I set my mom's computer to auto update.

                But no she couldn't do a Linux patch to save the universe even with explicit written instructions.

                What was your point or question?

  • When I read the headline I thought that maybe they have gone back to how KDE 3.5 was. That would be truly livable. KDE 3.5 had more features than any "lean" desktop we see nowadays, like XFCE, but still used less resources. At that time a fully booted Linux running KDE 3.5 used about 55Mb of RAM. Personally I never grew fond of any DE since KDE 3.5 and I begun using simple window managers.
  • "Fairly livable." That's confidence-inspiring, to be sure. A bit like saying, "hey, don't waste your money on fancy name-brand condoms. Try this store-brand condom instead! I've been using these for a while, and they hardly leak at all!"
  • I am from Humanities, so I can offer a different perpective about KDE Plasma. Although I can solve most of issues in my sistems, I will not be able to run Plasma 6 until my preferred distros makes it available. I've been using KDE/KDE Plasma since version 2.6, if I recollect right. I've tried other DE, like Gnome, but I liked KDE best. I got even used to single click to open files and to duble click to shade windows, so that in every new installation I set such behaviors. If it was not for data collection a

  • That's the quality I demand from my desktop environment. As a dedicated linux user, if it's not livable, I'll give it no more than 3 major releases and five years to become so. Then I'll maybe think about complaining but I'll generally stumble along with it indefinitely.

    Yes, I know it's not out yet. I'm just lightly trolling. A little smile on a rainy morning. :) - See the little smile?

  • I'm keen to try it out on a spare Thinkpad running Fedora 38. I'm not keen on having to build it all from source to give it a try.
    Are there ready-built binaries for Fedora 38 that people can have a play with? Or perhaps for another distro like Kubuntu.
    (Basically building from source on a 2-core laptop is just going to take too long.)

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