5 Reasons KDE Plasma Is Actually Awesome

Some people seem to think that I hate KDE Plasma after my prior videos but that couldn't be further from the truth, I think it's a great environment but it has some rough edges so instead let's talk about whats good in it.

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0:00 Intro
1:04 Widgets
3:35 Legacy App Support
6:45 Best Protocol Support
9:17 Modularity To A Fault
11:29 Better Window Rules

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[thingsiplay]

2024: Brodies title elevated to "KDE Shill".

[Rushil]

This will be the year of the Brodie v. Nicco cage match

[cameronmoore]

Wow, I can't believe he hates plasma, doesn't think people should use it, and thinks it's a terrible environment.

[RobBoudreau]

What I like even more than Plasma (and I do like Plasma) is the KDE apps. They're not watered-down things you need a ton of plugins to make functional, they're powerful out of the box. Kate, Konsole, Dolphin, Okular and others have more features and usability than those packaged with any other desktop.

[MisakaMikotoDesu]

Plasma is the reason I went back to using a DE. The integration between everything is so nice, especially coming back to linux after using MacOS for a few years.

[infinitivez]

Just recently switched from Windows to Arch, and am constantly impressed with how Plasma handles a lot of things. It's got some quirks here and there, but I've yet to run into anything game breaking. Back when I was on Redhat, I recall that setting up the desktop alone took me weeks before I felt I was comfortable. Took me maybe 10 minutes this time around.

[grnDestiny]

That’s the thing about KDE, is it’s the most powerful so even if it’s not perfect the design and features make it a viable and attractive solution

[scj]

The global menu bar is one of my favorite things

[davidi]

BTW you can easily add window rules by right clicking the title bar of the window.

[KanokYT]

Personally, I like how much lighter Plasma is compared to how it was back in the day. I've always had a love for Plasma. It has all the functionality I need from it and while others do as well, I just love the aesthetic and how stable it is...usually. lol

[idk-syiu]

Not enough people talk about how great plasma's support for fractional scaling is. It's really good

[GaryGreene]

As a long time KDE user and volunteer for the project in the past, I definitely agree that there are edges that need sanding (some more than others....)

With that said, I've tried daily driving GNOME and other desktops, and so far, I keep coming back to Plasma since it lets me do EXACTLY what I want my desktop environment to do

[BannedEvECharacter]

One of the nicest things about plasma is that it gives me options. I don't like being fenced in when it comes to my workflow. It has good defaults, but allows you to customize in so many ways.

[ZixaphirMoxphar]

It kills me to this day that Apple and Google took KHTML for all it was worth to get Safari and Chrome started, but most people have never heard of KDE and neither company contributed back much of use for the original engine.

[that_leaflet]

8:18 Gnome does support VRR in Gnome 46, as an experimental feature.

[nyNoob]

let's hope cosmic takes a good while to release so we can have broodie on KDE for a good while

[mirage]

The Wayland video bridge is super handy for me as somebody who enjoys sharing my screen in Discord and regularly finds myself a little annoyed at Discord not supporting Wayland fully.

Those window rules are something I wish I knew of before though. I like to have a few of my windows to always be the same size. I probably spend too much time counting pixels to get them just right. This is so much easier than messing with resizing and hoping the app remembers.

[dexterman]

Man the KDE devs never cease to amaze me.

[kbaeve]

Same here coming from tiling and feel there is potential which I also really want to see improved and also sure will be improved upon - but that aside, I think plasma 6 is amazing and will just continue improve. I never liked KDE but I'm kinda in love now.

[danielkrajnik]

14:45 "I'm going to do the polonium video soon"
Brodie, 04.2024