I’ve been running Plasma on my Intel Skylake I5-6?00U with 8gb RAM since 2015 and its utterly fine, no sluggishness in plasma itself. It’s still using X11 though, on an old Kubuntu LTS.
Plasma isn’t THAT heavy that it should be expected to feel sluggish on that kind of hardware. And contrary to popular belief Plasma isn’t actually that heavy of a DE in terms of resources.
OP might need to try different compositor backends? I remember years ago testing each before settling on whatever gave me smoothest performance (maybe OpenGL3?). Actually I’m not sure if this is even a setting anymore in modern Plasma, or in Wayland
I was merely testing out Plasma 6 on it, and I was just shocked on how sluggish it felt. I recently just got that laptop, so I’m hoping there isn’t some BS where the performance gets hampered by the kind of charger i’m using.
I was just curious if that’s what’s happening at this point in time.
( It should just be a matter of logging out, selecting X11 in the bottom righ corner, and logging in again)
Suffice to say, sluggish performance on your hardware shouldn’t be expected, so something must be wrong.
In KDE System monitor you can try adding a new page to show CPU clock speed , to check if the Dell is not throttling. (Dell laptops throttling on the wrong charger is definitely a thing, but I’ve only experienced on more powerful laptops)
Since you installed pre-release software I assume you don’t mind re-installing, so you could always try Neon Stable with 5.27, Kubuntu 23.10 or another distro entirely, to ensure your laptop is OK.
This looks great! I mean, I like Ghostwriter, but it isn’t exactly a note-taking app, less so KWrite and Kate, This will be a great complement and help to complete the basic needs of users I hope :)
Since it’s that new, I’m “afraid” that this won’t last and would prefer something more future-proof, like LaTeX (won’t implement it either, see point 2)
Klevernotes is focus on Markdown, I like to add some small “extensions” here and there, but I would like to keep the general feeling of markdown, typst or LaTeX are both to different from markdown imo.
Note : I might implement KaTeX (would be useful for my math class lol) but I didn’t made enough research about it to make it something certain
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