Overwhelmingly positive.
99% positive. Wayland works flawlessly. HDR didn’t cause issues (all AMD hardware).
The only issues I have off the top of my head are
1: Some icons in the system tray and system settings menu (the ‘Clipboard’ icon on the dock and the ‘Touchscreen’ tab in settings, and a couple others) display as a blank rectangle sometimes. Other times, they display as they should. Haven’t even bothered looking for a solution as it doesn’t effect usability in the slightest.
2: Certain pop up menus for dock applets, ie the Bluetooth applet, display incorrectly. I actually saw a post of another user having this issue, where the window only shows as a small square, and can require a re-log to actually make it work.
Other than these minor glitches, nothing has given me any issues.
To 2.: I only had that issue appear when launching Firefox or Vivaldi. Might have been a custom widget. Wiped my install and now the issue is gone? Sadly wasn’t able to diagnose the issue any further
Good
It’s like al KDE projects IMHO. Good on the surface and works well. But use it for any length of time and you will find problems, unfinished areas, or parts where it was implemented without considering why it was like this in the first place.
For example, plug your 1080p laptop into a display with 4K and watch are your desktop icon gets sorted by a-z randomly instead of keeping the order you had it.
Or try to add a calendar even to your system by clicking the calendar which is found in the date and time on the taskbar.
Online accounts added to the system do not integrate into other KDE apps requiring additional signin.
I feel this is probably caused from KDE’s team being small, but having a large suite of apps.
Poor integration with Google was a major reason to go back to Gnome.
What’s the value of to do app, calendar, events if I can’t have it synchronized across devices.
Sounds like you have a pretty okay experience but some specific things don’t work - please take some time to report bugs if you haven’t yet!
I’ve moved away from KDE for a while now. Been using Cinnamon since.
And most of my “bugs” are more missing features than anything.
I recently switched from being a long time GNOME users over to KDE Neon. It has been a nearly flawless experience.
My biggest complaint so far is the lack of NFS support in Dolphin, which I use for my NAS. GNOME Files had native support for NFS. Now I have to manually mount from CLI and then it’ll show up in Dolphin (eventually I’ll setup fstab, but haven’t done it yet).
Have you considered smb? Dolphin natively supports it.
I have both but prefer NFS over it for speed. SMB before multichannel used to choke pretty hard on Linux. It’s better now, but NFS is still the better protocol.
How is experience with mounted samba drives?
I found that apps don’t see them easily, which is a usability problem.
Argh I found out the same thing about NFS! I was so confused!
You can still put it in FStab though, if you want it accessible on boot. :)
Yeah I’m going to do that when I use my machine next. Was just nice having it as a favorite shortcut on the side and only mounting it when I needed it.
It works fine for me. Not on wayland but that’s down to my Nvidia card and I hope explicit sync will sort it out.
Definitely noticing more bugs than I did on KDE 5, but I’m happy for the new features and over ease of use 👍
Works very well. Only issue is missing ported extensions and the cursors lol.
For some reason all cursors made for plasma 5 are blurry, so the existing “breeze plasma 5 cursors” dont work that well.
And I miss “minimal desktop switcher” as the Plasma 6 alternative just makes Plasma desktop crash for some reason.
IMO the best Linux desktop experience that you can get right now
I had to wait a little for my favorite widgets to get updated to 6, now I’m good.
I have been using the Wayland session for a while (I was on for months on 5), and it solved so many multi-monitor woes it has been worth the switch. So far my only complaint is that remote access solutions are rather limited on Plasma, with Sunshine and Moonlight being the only consistently working solution, as Krfb (VNC) crashes randomly, doesn’t handle modifier keys well and forces you to click “OK” on a dialog every startup, thus making it useless for unattended access (Plasma issue).Other than remote access, no complaints.
Hi! I currently am on LMDE with Cinnamon (after trying a lot of distros and DE). I use laptops and so I am curious about trying wayland, which can offer a better experience with gestures, as far as I understand. Gnome is cool, but it is not flexible and I don’t want to install extensions over extensions. So I am thinking about KDE 6, again. I like it but at a certain point it drives me crazy. There is always something that doesn’t work well. Maybe it’s because I change too many things. I don’t know. Anyway, is it true that KDE 6 is not really stable yet or its stability level is simply the usual one?
I hardly change anything in Plasma. In my experience Plasma 6 is about as stable as Plasma 5.27 is/was. I rarely see a crash, freeze or inconsistancy I didn’t cause myself.
Good to know. I’ll give it a look then
Works great for me. I’m on X11 for now as an application for work refuses to work with Wayland - support page and I haven’t tried figuring out how to get it to use Xwayland.
Now that I think about it, I had one issue with screen tearing but that was more a driver issue with Nvidia.
Screensharing is broken, pretty good other than that
It’s some apps still being broken, not the desktop. Screen sharing works perfectly fine for me in Slack, Teams (unofficial app by IsmaelMartinez) and web browsers. There’s also X11 to Wayland video bridge that can be used as temporary workaround in unsupported apps.
This is good to know. It is one of the things that most interest me.
Discord is still broken even with that bridge. But that’s the only I found not working so far.
Give Vesktop a try. It’s a clone of discord and they say they support wayland for streaming just fine. It works fine but I haven’t tried the wayland streaming thing yet.
I have it all installed. Discord native, discord flatkpak, vesktop. With vesktop you loose microphone sound auto detection and krysp. But yeah, sharing video works there also on the browser like firefox, but it’s a tradeoff of the rest.
Maybe it works better than flatpak? It’s basically the same thing. But I’m not gonna install snap just to try it.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
No idea what krysp is, but audio is flawless in my case. Granted, only really used on x11 so far. I use vesktop flatpak on debian sid.
After a long time waiting, OBS seems to work with Wayland now. I use that to stream via Discord. Maybe worth a try?
see my other comment
Looks really sleek with the new floating panels, and being able to turn a panel into an icon task manger is still nice, and the new overview window is great for workflow.
However multi monitor support is still garbage. Like 3/4 of programs will never remember their size and position, so you have to make a never ending list of kwin window rules, which then end up affecting other windows you don’t want to. Other things like right click menus will show up on the wrong monitor way off in a corner get old real fast. Its like the cartoon spiderman meme of 3 Spiderman’s pointing at each other. Qt6, Wayland, and kwin all pointing the blame of why its like the way it is, while bug reports rack up another year of no fixes.
HDR having a toggle and working is really nice, but when it was on and I booted up a game, the in game options wouldn’t allow me to turn on HDR.
Like 3/4 of programs will never remember their size and position, so you have to make a never ending list of kwin window rules, which then end up affecting other windows you don’t want to
That’s Wayland specific isn’t it? X11 behaves a lot better in that regard
I have not had a single issue with a right click menu or a window not remembering size or position with multi monitors on tumbleweed
the HDR by my understanding is basically just automatic conversion, not actually support for programs to use HDR on their own. I’ve been using gamescope to run games in native HDR.
I use the wayland session on an Intel machine with no dedicated GPU, works flawlessly for me.
