KDE Plasma 6: Was It Worth my Time?

I've been on KDE Plasma 6 since around the launch so has it been worth my time or was the experience just a complete waste.

==========Support The Channel==========

==========Resources==========

=========Video Platforms==========

==========Social Media==========

==========Credits==========
🎨 Channel Art:
Profile Picture:

🎵 Ending music
Track: Debris & Jonth - Game Time [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds.

#KDE #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #LinuxDesktop

DISCLOSURE: Wherever possible I use referral links, which means if you click one of the links in this video or description and make a purchase I may receive a small commission or other compensation.

[DryPaperHammerBro]

Take a shot everytime Brodie says "From a tiling background"

[helioseklipse]

KDE plasma 6 is my dektop of choice and will be for a long time. If you are like me, who need BOTH non-blurry fractional scaling AND input methods to work out of the box (not sending any parameters to electron applications) under a wayland session, KDE plasma is the only choice. Gnome can't achieve both at the same time. There are too many electron based applications, and the move to wayland seems inevitable. This leaves users who need input methods in a hard place. KDE is the only safe haven for me.

[Lampe]

14:18 I use the effect "Wobbly Windows" - just because I like those silly animations that serve no practical purpose.

[PowerPuffBoysZ]

Probably a dumb reason but i use kde because its basically the windows gui. Made my transition from actual windows to linux a lot smoother

[ThatLinuxDude]

15:00 You never configured a screen edge nor hot corner - the effect is a hint for nearing any configured instance of these two.

[JonathanTuckerls]

Activities are like different profiles, work, personal, gaming, development., you can have different themes, programs open, window positions, etc

[markwarburton]

I like how KDE Plasma is standardised, but also customisable. I can get everything I need to do done without weird quirks or having to learn a bunch of keystrokes. It's stable, works out of the box compared to Gnome or others.

[kxuydhj]

as a plasma user i can say that krunner is absolutely amazing. depending on what i'm doing it tends to shave off anywhere between 20 and 80 percent of the time i need to get started. directly open files, make simple calculations, search the internet, run shell commands without a terminal, i can go on forever. it's not necessary at all but it's a huge quality of life improvement and it's one of the things that makes plasma so great.

[thingsiplay]

14:30 Thumbnail Aside
I actually used it a few times, its one of the functionality I was missing from GNOME before. Its to monitor some window and have it in your sight without it blocking. The mouse will not interact with the thumbnail, plus its semi transparent. Especially useful if you have a tiler that always stretches windows to the corners. I can click through the Thumbnail to interact with the window behind it, and still watch what the thumbnail is doing.

[gardenapple]

15:10 fun thing about the zoom button: in earlier versions of Plasma 6, there was no upper bound for how far you could zoom in. I found this out the hard way when a cat sat on my keyboard for a while and I came back to see my monitor just showing a single solid color. When I moved the mouse, the color changed slightly. I thought something was broken, turns out my cat zoomed in by like 7 million percent or something and so I was seeing just one single pixel. And KDE apparently saves the current zoom value in the config when you restart it...
I reported it as a bug and after some discussion it was decided that 100x is a reasonable upper limit.

[flex_ible]

Screen edges refer to the feature where you can bind some functionality to putting your mouse cursor in the corner of the screen. If you search screen edge in the settings menu to find it. You can see it in the video actually when you opened the mouse settings

[iusearch]

I ported the minimal desktop indicator to Plasma 6.
Now if you want something a tad bit more smooth, I also created GINTI. Try it and see if it's up to your liking.

[JEM_Tank]

I daily drive plasma and it's almost always a smooth experience, outside of crashes that 99% of the time come from me running bleeding edge mesa or kernel. It's a really good experience for people who left windows for more customization reasons or lack of- looking at you win 11 taskbar.

[rushinigiri]

There's a Kwin script called Shortkuts that allows you to set shortkeys for the native tiling feature. I would hardly call it an extension, it's funny that this was not included in the first place...

[Cheezie_]

Plasma was the first ever DE I've ever used when I switched over to linux for a while as a daily driver. And aside from the little bugs, I've enjoyed the DE so far. I personally like the KDE app ecosystem with a lot of customisation options such as changing actions in the top bar of an app and so much more is the only reason why I like Dolphin more than the new Windows 11 explorer. Only problem I had with Plasma 5 was that vsync was always forced even on full screen so i had to use a kwin script to fix it but now in Plasma 6.1, it is a built-in option. It personally is the desktop I want if I want to have an adwaita-free/gnome experience

[VarriskKhanaar]

In KDE’s Plasma so bright,
Floating panels take flight,
With a flick or a glide,
They follow your stride,
Making folks love the new sight!

[speedfatty]

Dude, Thank you. KDE is my Comfort Desktop, as when I originally came over from windows Vista, it resembled what I was familiar with, and ive just stayed with it since. and these videos youve done about Plasma 6 have actually taught me things about Plasma. you have set things up in a way I didnt know I could. (making the taskbar Dodge windows is a good example) and ive made changes to the way I operate because of it.

[middyjohn]

Activities is like a poor man's workspace, you can use it to separate apps that you open (apps on other activities wont be visible on the screen and taskbar), set up a shortcut for each activity and boom, quick shortcut to "homework", default or any activity. You can also set different wallpaper and pinned apps on taskbar for each activity. I use it as quick shortcut to a bunch of apps accordingly.

Note that it is VERY BUGGY when you try to show the apps in taskbar on specific activities only, you have to sometime unshow it. Also KDE is customizable, but as soon as you go outside the default settings and plugins, its a landmine

[gblenemy]

The system settings GUI makes me really jealous. But thats about it. I'm happy to see that other desktop environments "slowwwly" are catching up. (But they really could speed up a bit)
Things like that are super important for bringing more people onto linux.

[vertexrikers]

Everytime i tried KDE i got so annoyed after just a few hours or days that i ditched it for something else. I liked the general idea, look and feel, so i gave it many tries over the years and checked different iterations. But to me it always just feelt extremely bloated and broken, as half of the features either didn't seem to work at all or i just didn't understand what they were _supposed_ to achieve. Long time ago i went with Cinnamon for quite a while but it always felt like a crotch for the lack of better alternatives. Now i'm on Hyprland and super happy - first time that it feels like having arrived and so far i never felt the desire to ditch or switch. Finally something that just does what it advertises to do and is neither ugly nor majorly broken nor bloated by default. Zero gaps, 1px border with focus color (i agree with you there) and mostly floating windows - the kind of mess i enjoy - and when i rly want/need tiling... it does that, too 😁