A Quick First Look At KDE Plasma 6

KDE just released Plasma 6, a major milestone in the evolution of the Linux desktop. Today, I'm going to take a quick first look of Plasma 6 inside a virtual machine of KDE Neon.

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[theroguetomato]

I've been using KDE since it was first available. I'm really impressed with what they've done with Plasma 6.

[deepajain]

KDE looks sick now, can't wait for windows 12 to copy it ☺️☺️

[konradzuse]

You may have forgotten the most important new feature (in my opinion): the overview feature. It looks and feel much like the Gnome overview, where you can manage all open workspaces and windows. I forgot the shortcut, but on KDE Neon it was enough to push the mouse arrow to the upper left corner.

[RiPStF]

I was using plasma 5 as my reintroduction to Linux a while back. It serves as a GREAT bridge for windows>linux users, at least it did for me. Allowed me to reimmerse into the linux ecosystem without the shellshock of something entirely different.
Qtile is what I generally use but once they get Plasma 6 on arch, I'll likely install it & see how that goes

[Danielddiniz]

DT very productive this year! Congrats!

[cazualsimgamer]

Gotta say you are my source for Linux since the early years of ubuntu😊

[kennystrawnmusic]

2:27 The “Mission Control”-like overview mode that was experimental since 5.24 is now the default behavior when you move the cursor to the top left corner, which is why they only have one workspace by default — you can literally drag a window onto a “+” and it’ll automatically make a new workspace on the fly.

[UncleSpellbinder]

I'm running Arch with KDE 6. So damn good. Buttery smooth!

[greatestcait]

Now if only Arch would push Plasma 6...

[ciphered]

The floating panel behavior is actually not new. You could configure it that way on Plasma 5, but it was off by default. Plasma 6 turns it on by default out of the box.

[alexsocop]

I'm one of those 'single click' lovers, super convenient once one gets used to using it 🙂

[thetrancedemon]

used it for about a month and its awesome. for low end computers, turn off all desktop effects and animation speed to instant and this will become as snappy and fast as xfce.

[xaero]

You can even have the Desktop Cube in Plasma 6 too. 🥰

[FarhanAhmad-llno]

when opensuse going to update with kde 6? Any info

[SunsetNova]

Can’t wait for distros coming with Plasma6

[Fozz]

try pressing the windows key and typing "=" in the application launcher.. ..you can then type simple calculations like. "=(10/2)+3"... ..it's a plasma5 thing, I bet it still works in 6. really useful!

[satyamevajayate]

KDE bought me into Linux. What an amazing DE and a distro ( or non distro lol ).

[isrbillmeyer]

Sidenote - After Visual Studio Code had some strange update that messed up yaml file formatting I had to find an alternative - and started using Kate as IDE. Now I have used Kate for a loooong time already, but basically as a text editor, never really using it as an IDE. And I was pleasantly surprised at just how many features is available and my workflow did not get disrupted too much. The language server integration need some work, it would be nice to have some of the VS Code plugins that got used to - but Kate I found was definitely faster. Some polish and plugins and Kate could be a primary IDE.

[JeremiahSummers]

"only gave it 6 gigs of ram" I remember when I was running KDE 3 off of 90 Meg, geeze

[lunsj]

DT certainly loves his "secure and complicated password" running gag doesn't he? 😂