How do you make a great desktop into a fantastic desktop? Easy — chip away at the rough bits, polish the good stuff, and add awesomeness. After 29 years of development, KDE’s got the foundation nailed down. Plasma 6.5 is all about fine-tuning, fresh features, and a making everything smooth and sleek for everyone.
Ready to see what’s new? Let’s dive into Plasma 6.5!
Highlights:
- Automatic Theme Transitions: Configure when your theme will transition from light to dark and back.
- Caret Text Navigation: Zoom now swoops in to where you type
- KRunner Fuzzy Search: Even if you type it wrong, KRunner will find it!
Unfortunately, KDE is quantity over quality. I like the look and feel for the most part, but out of all the mainstream DEs, I’d say it’s the buggiest. GNOME with too many extensions is absolutely less stable, but vanilla KDE is embarrassing for stability, even on Linux Approved hardware.
I’ve experienced far fewer bugs on KDE 6 than Mint or Cinnamon, and I refuse to use GNOME. What else are you comparing against?
Cinnamon I’ve found to be buggy too. Panel and wallpaper glitches, black screens on wakeup, to name a few.
They are comparing against a mix of “trust me bro” and “i’ve heard that…”. The local classic
You’re making assumptions. I’ve used GNOME since 2008, with extensive use of KDE and Cinnamon too in later years. I’ve used other DEs such as XFCE for niche applications. KDE - for me - has always been buggy despite being the most feature rich. This is just my experience. You don’t have to trust me.
Edit: Currently daily driving COSMIC. It was a little rough in the Alpha stages but it’s now very stable for me.
If you knew/remember the first days of KDE 5, it was the buggiest DE ever invented at that time. However nowadays I barely even see any bug in KDE, at least for my use cases. And I’m a WM guy who use KDE out of laziness.