Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.
With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.
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All that matters is… THE CUBE IS BACK BABY!
All hail the CUBE.
… now we wait for … the jiggly cube!! :D
THE CUBE IS PROOF KDE IS RUN BY THE PEOPLE
What’s the cube?
I love KDE. Been using it for 10 years
One question i’ve always had though… Does anyone actually use the default KDE software like konqueror, kmail, kontacts, etc? Why not just focus on the desktop environment?
A bunch of them: Kate, Konsole, Dolphin, KCalc, Kdenlive, Okular, Gwenview, Ark, Spectacle, KDEconnect, Elisa and probably a couple more I missed.
Konsole is fantastic.
That software played a much bigger role back in the day (i.e Konqueror’s. KHTML was forked by both Apple and later Google for Safari and Chrome), so it’s kind of a proud legacy. Konqueror is deprecated though. The other apps are useful for KDE mobile.
But the real reason people work on them is “cause they wanna”
The default software was one of the main reasons KDE was created. The original creator didn’t like that every app on their system seemed to use a different UI toolkit, and wanted a consistent appearance across everything.
Yes, using them is probably the closest one can get to the macos ecosystem on Linux.
I’d argue GNOME has a better native app ecosystem. they have the resources to maintain a massive selection of “official” apps
I don’t know, I used gnome for a while and I just felt like I was using toy apps. But I think that comes down to personal preference. KDE definitly has the bigger apps like Kdenlive and Krita.
is plasma any good yet? I last used it in like 2019 and it was too buggy. I’ve heard it’s gotten better, but I haven’t had the chance to test it
2019! yes you have been living under a rock … it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine …
it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine
It’s running well on my 2013 laptop as well.
Well it does not even have to be fairly new, at least I do not consider my 8 years old PC as fairly new at all and it still is really good. As that is also one of the areas where Plasma has improved a lot during the years, they really have made it quite lightweight. Especially when considering how powerful and feature-full and configurable it is.
How long until this trickles down into the major distros?
It will reach Slackware about 6 months before the heat death of the universe.
Fedora 40 (April) should have it I think
And already merged into NixOS. Insane how quick that was.
Wow. They just lifted the horrific Desktop management paradigm from MacOS.
But I don’t know, I guess people like it, and fortunately I’m not forced to use KDE.
What do you mean? Which desktop management paradigm?
I think he’s referring to Gnome, which kind of feels like MacOS?
No, I’m referring to KDE. Check the link in the post and watch the videos. The desktop switching is now working almost exactly like in MacOS.
Of course KDE wins by allowing to configure it.
They just lifted the horrific Desktop management paradigm from MacOS.
I’m amazed that people like this style of desktop switching. Linear? Why? It’s easier to picture my place “in a small grid” than in a “long line of desktops”. Since “forever” I’ve used a 3x3 grid of desktops that I navigate with
++. Turn off all of the stupid animations, effects, etc. and make it an instant desktop change. I assume KDE being KDE this will still be configurable as it is in Plasma 5 though.Yup it is configurable, There are many switchers to choose from
