Plasma 6.6 released
56 points by achill
56 points by achill
Hope people like it! ❤️
I switched to fedora + kde plasma in summer of 2024. Any time i have to use windows now, i realize how much of KDE's quality-of-life features i take for granted. Now, I'm excited to read the weekly "This week in plasma newsletter", and have opened several bug reports/wishlists on the kde bugtracker. Thank you, thanks to the whole core contributor team and anyone else working on it. <333
I thought i didn't like linux desktop bitd but it turns out i just didn't like how gnome worked. kde is a breath of fresh air and lets me make the system work exactly like i want it to work. thanks for the hard work!
There's a lot to love in this release, but I think my favorite piece is Plasma Setup. It's one of those things I didn't realize I wanted until the KISS project was revived and I was reminded that it wasn't already there! I have been so used to GNOME's equivalent in new installs of Fedora Workstation and Silverblue that it didn't register that it was missing when I installed Kinoite on my other laptop. But then I set up Fedora Kinoite on a few laptops for my dad, and it hit me how having Plasma Setup would have been useful.
Essentially, Plasma Setup makes it easier to install a KDE-based operating system on a device for someone else. You don't have to worry about things like account creation; that's left to the first person to turn it on after installation. I hope this means we see KDE-based operating systems show up preinstalled on more computers. I have one laptop that my dad is planning to give to a local mission that I will be loading Fedora Kinoite 44 on so they can set up their own accounts on first boot.
EDIT: Whoa, I just saw the "hide from screencast" option. Very cool!
Watching Windows and macOS fall into oblivion has me incredibly grateful to have discovered KDE Plasma when I did. I feel like they've been building/improving on the desktop interface that macOS peaked with ~8-10 years ago, but with modern bells and whistles.
Thanks a ton to the team for adding new improvements that actually feel like improvements. In the same vein, I am also grateful for your ability to say no to things and keep the desktop understandable, performant, and functional. That's a rare attribute to find in modern day software!
Where would be a good place to start in terms of contributing to KDE? My 9 year old son and I love plasma. We have it on both our computers and he gets really excited showing me how he’s customized his.
First off, read this and check for what may interest you: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved
Then, we could always use more bug triagers: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging
What this means is, go through bug reports, mark duplicate bugs, figure out what causes a bug and write down repro steps and your hardware you repro'd it on. Also general testing is always welcome.
For programming things, try to fix those bugs, especially for apps and tools you use! My first contributions were literally me being very angry about a bug so that I tried to fix it. And I knew barely any C++ at the time lol.
I’ve not used Linux as a desktop for 15 years now after switching to macOS but I still love KDE because of nice memories attached to it. At the time of the Qt 3 -> 4 transition I started the KAuth framework used to handle authorization and authentication as a GSoC project. What an experience! I would not have expected it but the copyright notices are still there (e.g. https://github.com/KDE/kauth/blob/master/src/actionreply.cpp).
Hi ~Aks, I'm currently running Plasma 6.3.6 on Debian GNU/Linux 13 on a bunch of old Lenovo ThinkPad 10 tablets, with Intel Atom processors and 4 GiB RAM, that I'm trying to save from eWaste, and they are working well, but there are a few glitches that I need to iron out and was wondering if there is a distro you would recommend to run on this hardware to help me trouble shoot the issues?