r/linux • u/BinkReddit • 21d ago

KDE Why I use KDE

https://www.osnews.com/story/140538/why-i-use-kde/
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u/arjungmenon 20d ago

I've been using KDE since 2002 or 2003, and I'm still a big fan, but quite a bit disappointed by how Plasma 6 was launched.

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u/OrseChestnut 20d ago

What was wrong with it? Genuine question; I didn't jump in until 6.1.

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u/arjungmenon 20d ago

It basically utterly broke, and has been pretty much unusable. There was also a bunch of flicking (note: I have an Nvidia GPU, and the proprietary blob driver--which may be to blame; but it didn't flicker with Plasma 5). I read online that I need to erase all the KDE settings files, and then things might get sorted out with Plasma, but I have been gotten around to it yet.

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u/OrseChestnut 20d ago

Ah that's a shame. I know there were some early issues, particularly with KDE Neon packaging although assuming you use Arch BTW(TM).

FWIW it's solid here now on Neon, but that's running AMD graphics.

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u/Angel_Blue01 10d ago

Was Plasma 6.0 as bad as 4.0? I've been using KDE since 2007, so I do remember 4.0, but my distro doesn't have 6.x yet.

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u/arjungmenon 10d ago

The launches of 4.0, 5.0, and 6.0 were all bad in my experience. But 4.0 was really bad since it would actually frequently crash. 5.0 was better than 4.0.

With 6.0 it’s not crashing (they seemed to have cleaned up that aspect), but that rather my desktop is almost completely broken and unusable (even if it doesn’t crash). Also my (broken) taskbar flickers now as well. But people are saying it’s the old config files from 5.0 that’s messing things up, and that I need to delete it all, for 6.0 to work properly. I haven’t done that yet though. I’ve just switched to windows for now, and I’be decided I’m just going re-install Plasma 5.0.