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  • I’ve been using it since Plasma 6 came out so about 3-4 weeks.

    Overall, it’s been a very negative experience for me. The main problems have been:

    • Random scaling issues in apps: some apps show a slightly smaller cursor, other show a poorly upscaled one, others have random rendering issues like lines remaining on the screen after an option is no longer highlighted (gimp, libreoffice, many others), some apps have random flickering of parts of the UI, some apps no longer scale at all or are scaled twice. Plasmashell itself has blurry icons on the desktop but all other KDE apps don’t. I know fractional scaling has always been problematic, but it has gotten worse to the point of being almost unusable
    • Random crashes of GTK apps when using the wayland backend. Some GTK apps don’t even start and segfault immediately with a wayland error in the terminal
    • Some apps like okular and libreoffice lag like crazy or outright freeze when scrolling
    • Some games not capturing the cursor properly (Proton)
    • Inconsistent font rendering, some fonts look fine in some apps and atrocious in others
    • Issues when resizing or moving windows, some times they “jerk” off the screen or resize to a very tiny window and I’m forced to use key combinations to resize them again
    • Random issues with window decoration not appearing in some apps but randomy appearing for things like context menus

    This is on a full AMD system with Arch Linux, the latest kernel and mesa-git. I hope for KDE’s sake that there’s something broken in my installation because I can’t believe the KDE team released Plasma 6 in this sorry state.



  • It gets better bro.

    I’m 33 and I was in a worse situation:

    • Started getting depressed in 2011 at the age of 20
    • Graduated in CS in 2016, super late, but with top grades
    • Started working as a software developer, hated it
    • For a few years I switched between working in a local computer shop and uni to get a master’s degree
    • Again, I graduated super late in 2021 but with top grades
    • Still hated working as a developer and now hated working as a technician too
    • At the end of 2021, I got a call from my old high school, they needed someone to teach programming
    • Decide to give it a try, absolutely love it
    • Suddenly, depression is gone and I have a reason to get up in the morning
    • A 10 year old nightmare is over, still single though



  • AI is to computer science what black magic is to science.

    Seriously, what do you get after you’ve spent days and days to train a model? An inscrutable blob that may as well be proprietary software written for an alien CPU; studying it is damn near impossible, understanding how it works would require several lifespans, and yet it works, and we trust these models and use them to get solutions to problems that would normally be impossible to handle by computers using “real” computer science. And one day, this trust will bite us in the ass, not in the form of an “AI rebellion” but with every system that uses AI becoming unreliable because of situations outside its training.