KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something special

https://www.zdnet.com/article/kde-neon-shows-that-the-plasma-6-linux-distro-is-something-truly-special/

by jrepinc • 2 years ago

47 16 2 years ago

This article is an awful lot of words for not much being said. I’m glad they like the improvements (I certainly do) but you’ll be hard pressed to extract what those actually are. This is kinda understandable, as plasma 6 is good because it’s a massive accumulation of lots of little fixes where usability was examined and adjusted rather than “major feature x and y”. But I don’t think most of us are here for feel good fluff for clicks.

I instead recommend looking at this developer’s personal blog if you want to read something substantial: https://pointieststick.com/category/this-week-in-kde/

The official blog is a decent general overview of the status of releases. FYI they are currently cleaning up some issues from the recent user facing release that weren’t in unstable/testing: https://blog.neon.kde.org/

mike_hock• 2 years ago

Good thing I came here before giving them traffic. Clickbait headlines are almost always a red flag.

gr4vityWall3• 2 years ago

I didn't like how this article is written, it feels like the signal to noise ratio is terrible. I agree with the conclusion that KDE may be the best DE available for GNU available these days. It was the only DE to seamless support my multiscreen, mixed DPI, mixed refresh rates setup. And it wasn't complicated, I just turned scaling on for two of my monitors on the Settings menu, set the right refresh rate values, and everything just worked.

I hope they keep doubling down on bug fixing and being functional for end users.

149765• 2 years ago

Can you assign virtual desktops to different screens?

maybenotmart2• 2 years ago

Not yet. Even if we don't have a defined timetable yet for this feature, is something we are planning to implement

gr4vityWall3• 2 years ago

I don't know. I have never used the virtual desktop feature. Is there any way I could test that for you?

ahartmetz• 2 years ago

I hope Bruce Byfield will write something. He obviously likes KDE, but also criticizes where appropriate, and he just writes really good, well researched articles.

cassianoleal• 2 years ago

And _some_ HDR support as well!

fsflover• 2 years ago

Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39548088

mixmastamyk2• 2 years ago

Did they streamline the konsole context menu yet? Last I looked at my laptop with kde it had like 900 options when I commonly use 3 and due to that are buried. That's my only big complaint with the system, its pretty damn good otherwise.

jrepinc• 2 years ago

Only 11 options on the first level now. So yeah huge improvement over 900 before :P

mixmastamyk2• 2 years ago

~900 total is what I meant, unfortunately.

j-j-j-j• 2 years ago

I like KDE on technical level, but I can never fully reproduce the Gnome's "Meta key/hot right upper corner expose" flow, which really grew onto me over the years. Also, last time I tried (a year ago) it was simply crashing around once a day which was a deal breaker.

PhilippGille• 2 years ago

How does that flow go?

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something special

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