Detailed review of Plasma 6.4 desktop environment, covering look and feel, new dark theme, numerous ergonomic regressions, significant problems with basic font rendering and raw performance in a Wayland session on a system with integrated AMD graphics, superior X11 session behavior, problems with Discover and software management, various issues and bugs in the underlying KDE neon platform - installer inconsistency, disappearing icons, default browser configuration, repeatable Samba connectivity crash, apt error messages, alarming future trend for the Linux desktop, other observations, and more
  • airgapped@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Don’t mean to outright negate the article but I have experienced literally none of the problems mentioned with Wayland through three separate installs over more than 2 years. I happen to be running a nightmare of a setup too (nvidia/AMD GPUs in a laptop)

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Say it with me: KDE neon is a testing ground; there is a reason people work on KDE Linux; Ubuntu LTS itself is already a frequent source of problems; KDE killed LTS releases for pretty much the same reason - backporting stuff sucks.