@mokazemi combining the overview and desktop grid is fantastic. If it’s anything like how GNOME lays out workspaces, it might just make me switch to kde :)
Wayland+Plasma 5.27 feel pretty close to usable, so I’m hopeful that with Plasma 6 I can finally just pick Wayland and stick with it and not have to back to X11.
If Nate thinks that wayland only on Plasma 6 is the way to go then I feel like we as a user should trust him.
Currently I use AMD hardware and for me KDE + Wayland is fantastic experience. Some crashes here and there, with which I’m fine with.
My brother is running Fedora Kinoite + Wayland with Nvidia and he is total noob when it comes to Linux. He is happy and never complained about his system.
So, I would only assume for normal use case wayland is already in good shape currently. It is only going to get better with plasma 6.
If Nate thinks that wayland only on Plasma 6 is the way to go then I feel like we as a user should trust him.
Well… that is not what he is saying. X11 will be supported for a long time still. In fact KDE has not even set a deadline for ending support for X11^*^. It will definitely not end with the release of Plasma 6.
The point is that not adapting software to Wayland is a mistake. It may be a pain, but X11 is virtually abandonware. The developers have moved on (to Wayland) and there are no new versions coming out – unless someone forks it, of course, but that would probably be another mistake, as the codebase is an unsustainable mess.
This implies that, yes, when most software projects have got their applications working on Wayland, X11 will be phased out as a platform Plasma works on, but there is no date for that yet.
– ^*^ Other projects are less coy. Fedora is considering removing support X11 from their very soon, maybe in their next releases. This is what sparked the discussion. Not KDE.
I replaced my Nvidia with an AMD graphics card last year. Ever since ive been using Wayland on KDE Plasma without any issue. I have 2 VRR Monitors connected with different refresh rates, which felt clunky on X11 and now feels fluid and just brilliant to use. I don’t use X11 Sessions at all anymore and only have XWayland for stuff that requires it
Are you using the Jerboa client? I think they recently introduced an option to open links in a private tab which is on by default for some reason. It confused me too until I found the setting.
I don’t think a reinstall should be necessary. I upgraded a Neon unstable machine from 5.x to 6 in place and it worked fine. The final release should work the same.
Oh great, so from disabling single mouse click to disabling that tap thing. I had hoped that in Plasma 6 I’ll have one few option that needs changing. Well, at least it’s configurable…
Looks like (according to Nate) we can expect a final release of Plasma 6 around November-December–I for one am excited for the enhanced external display & GPU support!
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