• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Mostly positive althought there has been no shortage of bugs. That said, when I did a clean installation (not an upgrade), most of them disappeared, so I guess I’d recommend a fresh install. I still wouldn’t say it’s as stable as Gnome or Cinnamon, but the trajectory KDE have been on when it comes to making their DE less janky has been amazing recently.

    There’s been a lot of subtle UI improvements that make KDE feel a lot less disjointed, although you still see it here and there.

    The improvements to the overview (Gnome activities view clone) are great.

    Compared to the absolute shit show that was Plasma 4 and 5 for their initial releases, Plasma 6 is amazing. It’s still not my DE of choice, but I keep it on one of my systems just to see the progress.

  • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Paola@lemmy.mlOPBEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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?

  • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • the16bitgamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    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.

  • Sentaku_HM@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    working very well for me, and the most thing that i notice is scaling at 125% now not being blurry.

  • OpossumOnKeyboard@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Anecdotal, but for me worked a lot better with my monitors (both the same exact model though). On plasma 5 they had trouble waking up after suspending

  • Bonje@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Why can’t I inline two tab bars? I want a center island with a task manager and an island on the right with a system tray.

    Otherwise it’s peachy.

      • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        1. I use the fullscreen start menu. I can’t select search results with keyboard anymore.

        2. Inverting window colors doesn’t work for me anymore, after they set the default to wayland. (I used it for app’s which don’t have a dark theme)

        3. Focus stealing prevention (global setting and window rules) doesn’t work anymore.

        4. window positioning guidelines keep flickering in and out of existence all day, even when I don’t resize any windows.

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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          6 months ago

          You might want to report these. In the last This Week in KDE, it says:

          This week we put some of the final Plasma 6.0 bugs to rest, and continued working towards Plasma 6.1

          I mean, theoretically, this could mean that they decided these issues are a WONTFIX, but I imagine, they rather just don’t know of them.

          • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            At least the two I care about most already have an open issue in the bugtracker, which I am following for updates.

            I’ll search for the other two when I am bothered enough and report them if they aren’t

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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).

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    It was unstable in my case (AMD and Intel graphics), the UI is not great in my personal opinion and to me it just looks and feels like a low-budget beginner OEM system. Sorry KDE devs but that’s my opinion