Plasma 6.1 Is Good! But...

A ramble about Plasma 6.1 as I get back into making some videos.
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[haniel]

I don't know if it is intentional to emphasize plasma's bugs, but the thumbnail I got was:"Plsama gonna plasma"

[peterjantzer]

Your opening statement about your relationship with plasma reflects mine exactly.
It's the best example of love/hate I can think of.

[Maitreya]

6.1 is nice but its been the first time I had bugs with KDE. I mainly have two:
- Auto login doesn't work anymore, in 6 I had that enabled
- on first system start, USB devices don't work, have to restart for them to work. Quite annoying that one

[RADRNATN]

there is a setting in accesibility called shake cursor that makes the mouse get big, you can turn it off.

[ukdave]

My experience with Plasma has been better on endeavour OS than tumbleweed for some reason I can't explain. I tried tumbleweed for a few months as it is a great underrated distro in my opinion, but I had issues with Plasma updates that didn't arise in endeavour or were fixed quicker than in tumbleweed.

[EricParker]

IDK how so many people have KDE work fine, for me it's always been too buggy. On the subject of your monitor issue, for me sometimes I don't get a desktop background on my secondary displays. 6 has been better, but it's just frustrating, and the developers seem somewhat hostile to focusing on quality for a bit rather than new features.

[Udcznik]

My Arch installation was packed with plasma 5 at the beginning for quite a long time, beautiful experience. I updated to Plasma 6 the first day it came out and now I'm on the 6.1 version. It has only one major bug with wine and kwin-wayland on par.
When I play a game thru lutris by using Wine-TkG or Wine-GE, sometimes after playing constantly for about 2 or 3 hours kwin-wayland crashes killing my whole plasma session and not even letting me enter TTY which forces me to restart my whole PC. It's kinda painful but It doesn't happen when I use GE-Proton and gamescope while playing on Lutris so at least I have a workaround which lets me avoid X11. On other platforms there are no issues at all.
Apart from that, I like the experience overall. I even moved to plasma 6 on my laptop. The desktop is smooth, good looking and very customizable. They still have X11 (yet) behind so if something goes bad with Wayland like in my case, you can always go back to X11.

[camerontgore]

Wow! That wallpaper with the date/time widget is super 😮

[tenuredcloud]

You missed your opportunity at 1:54 for the “Well, actually…” 🤓

Love the video bud, keep em’ coming ☕️

[omfgbunder]

I've literally never seen that mouse pointer bug... but I think Brodie was also showing that off recently 😂

[cejannuzi]

I like XFCE and KDE. They are quite the contrast in many respects.

[YourComputer]

What font is that for the weekday?

Imagine if the cursor getting bigger isn't a bug but just a way to find the cursor faster.

[donkey]

Plasma still regularly has soft crashes for me, where the apps don't close, but the everything else restarts, especially when using meta+v for the clipboard.

Also brightness widget regularly crashes if I interact with it since 6.1.

[luigigrabspam]

Yeah i had to stop using the floating for the top panel on my set up because the kinda brief stuttery flicker you have when maximizing is just too jaring lol

[luigigrabspam]

If you really wanted a stable distribution the answer isnt gnome but instead cinnamon. But cinnamon is faaar behind on the wayland front

[Tech-NO-City]

I had a lot of these problems you speak of until I switched to from HDMI to Display Port cables.

[Bananapepperszx]

I thought the curses getting bigger and bigger was a feature

[sthecommenter]

I think KDE and Gnome both have grown to a state where deciding which is better is literally impossible cause you can get rid of KDE's so-called bugs when not using the tons of features it gives you or you can make Gnome buggy adding tons of features to it, i love both of them and cannot really decide which works best for me, the only part that they differentiate for me is the hardware support which I think KDE works better for me (at least for now)[maybe because I'm using a very old laptop]

[pip]

I have also been running Tumbleweed with Plasma recently albeit on an old HP 8200 Elite SFF with a 1050 ti in it so that hardware is very old. It runs great with Wayland even. I had an issue where the cursor shake made it disappear until I updated which fixed it. I can't say for certain what the cause was.

[nosotrosloslobosestamosreg]

Nah, I'm a Cinnamon enjoyer and have no plans to move out.