Plasma 6.5
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KDE is on the verge of making it big for the general public

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!
  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    52·
    1 day ago

    I just moved to Plasma from XFCE and my first thought was wow, this runs fine on old hardware, why have I been suffering through the 2010 experience when I could have had features all this time!?

    • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
      35·
      1 day ago

      Aww, I will always love XFCE and save a place for it in my heart … but I moved to Plasma 2 years ago and haven’t really looked back either >_>

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        20·
        1 day ago

        XFCE is fine, it seems to largely behave and while it doesn’t have any bells and whistles it can do everything it tries to do fine. Gnome on the other hand… everything I wanted it to do required a plugin which had since been broken by a new version. Plasma seems great so far!

        • audaxdreik@pawb.socialEnglish
          10·
          1 day ago

          Agreed. I was actually afraid to modify my KDE desktop for months because of the trauma sustained from just trying to customize Gnome a bit. My configuration is still pretty vanilla, but it’s got enough personal flair to it that it feels uniquely mine and I’m the happiest I’ve been.

          • vandsjov@feddit.dk
            3·
            10 hours ago

            At least Mac has the whole menu bar going for it. I started out on GNOME but the empty bar in the top just bothered me. Then I went XFCE but I kept running into small annoyances, that probably could be fixed somehow but I don’t really have time to fight/tweak my computer. And now I’m on Plasma and so far it just works and the small tweaks I have done were quick.

          • Kay Ohtie@pawb.socialEnglish
            101·
            22 hours ago

            Including the limitations of options, albeit worse than Apple. I really don’t understand the hubris of that team.

      • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        I’ve only been a Linux user for a couple of years though so I’ve got no excuse!