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I've seen some impressive traction on newer videos putting Linux on (intel) Apple devices for example. Purely anecdotal but regularly hitting 100k+ views on Linux videos is something that I've only seen in the last year or so and moreso on videos documenting "hardware restoration".
Lmao i get the same whenever i wanna launch discord. Even if you do Discor it'll show discover first for a second so youll launch it twice before learning to wait :)
Sure but you still gotta wait half a second for the filter to update or you'll still open the wrong map. I do the same typing "discor" only to open Discover every damn time.
Maybe I’m a bit anal but it really does just sound like what we already knew.
I’ve used KDE Neon for a while as a typical end user and it works solidly. You get the nice upgrade cadence for the kernel and software, but rolling release for the one thing I care about in my distro - the desktop!
I will say, that if they don’t want to encourage people using KDE Neon as end users (I think it’s just a disclaimer but whatever) I wouldn’t ship it as the default distro for the KDE Slimbook; which is marketed at end users!
I haven’t seen the update come through to my system but since I have a more-than-slightly-borked grub setup, I have a feeling it could be to do with that....
Since the update, if I snap Firefox to the top the mouse seems to be offset a number of pixels compared to where the actual cursor is. It also affects the content in sites, not just stuff in Firefox....
David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....
With Wayland becoming the “Default” for most distributions now, will KDE begin to integrate some Wayland only features that you’re excited about?
I’ve seem some very interesting experiments for swapping desktop sessions (GNOME to KDE to Sway whole CSGO was running) all without losing state, and storing application state to disk.
Some of the plasmoids are implemented in JavaScript I think, but personally I’d love to see Dart as a consideration for that “high level language” choice.
It already does a great job at gluing high level rendering abstractions with low level rendering libraries within the Flutter SDK, and supports a lot of useful paradigms in UI development such as first class functions, null safety, enhanced enumerators, etc.
I can see why it’s given a wide berth from FOSS since it’s associated with JavaScript AND Google (two controversial terms in programming to say the least…) but working with it daily really does remind me how well it lends itself to frontend development.
GPU Hotplugging is one I’m pretty hyped for! Hybrid graphics laptops aren’t too different from a GPU hotplugging scenario either, and they’re usually quite janky on Linux getting the external displays to work usually means swapping from hybrid mode to dGPU mode (restarting the X session in the process). At least with Wayland that (eventually) be a lot more graceful!
For Youtube in fullscreen, it’s small flashes of magenta pixels when the video controls appear/disappear (or when I move my mouse). For ACC, the screen goes white with moving elements outlined in black pixels until I set the resolution down to 1080p.
I actually get total screen corruption (multiple colours in stripes of corruption) when setting the screen resolution beyond native (eg. forcing wayland to downscale the image to my screen).
I’ll check my VRAM allocation, right now I think it’s 4GB but the BIOS is kinda limited – hopefully I can get it to 6 or 8GB since I’ve got like 24GB of RAM to spare.
Gonna try Kubuntu for the hell of it, but just partitioned some space for Cinnamon and it doesn’t have any of the issues at least in the X11 session (Updated the kernel too since Cinnamon likes to ship 5.15 which just barely works for this iGPU)
The Wayland session is janky af for Cinnamon anyway, but did notice that scrubbing a fullscreen YT video didn’t really show any artifacting there. Then again, this could just be because their wayland implementation is very immature since most of the desktop was a blurry mess of jank.
With Wayland becoming the “Default” for most distributions now, will KDE begin to integrate some Wayland only features that you’re excited about?
I’ve seem some very interesting experiments for swapping desktop sessions (GNOME to KDE to Sway whole CSGO was running) all without losing state, and storing application state to disk.
I’m currently using gnome and I’d like to switch to plasma, but I can’t seem to find a decent wayland-compatible virtual keyboard. What would you guys recommend?
Steamdeck uses a virtual keyboard driven by its two touchpads. It’s Steam’s own (janky, web-technology) implementation but handhelds are a very new case for better virtual keyboards that dont necessarily rely on touchscreens.
No worries, I just remember the fold being one of the lower-placed results in the poll that was going around a few months back and I was surprised to see it being used!
We are less than 50 days away from the final version of #Plasma6.
Along with Frameworks 6 and KDE Gear 24.02, the Megarelaease on the 28th of February will be one of the biggest and more complex upgrades in KDE's history.
One more RC will be released on the 31st of January and then it will be (hopefully) clear sailing until the final release.
Fedora has KDE 6 in a testing branch I think. Would be good if you’re willing to test it because they’re looking for people to go through user test scenarios.
I don’t like that the KDE file transfer progress does not take in account the transfer from RAM to disk, and it only takes into account disk to RAM. I don’t want to wait for the “Don’t eject yet” message to disappear, because it sometimes stays too long, and I get worried if there could be an issue with KDE. How do I...
A lot of people kinda missing the point which is, even if KDE follows convention by copying memory to RAM and syncing to disk slowly (which is always gonna happen, USBs are slow) Dolphin should properly identify this and not just say “we did it! the transfer is complete!”
That being said, Nautilus (GNOME) does the exact same thing and it’s always so annoying I have to search the web every time I want to remember how to track the progress of the sync command.
I can’t imagine there is but I’m wondering if I am missing something. I use GeForce Now and unfortunately it does not work in Plasma Wayland (issues with input redirection). Is there any problem with logging into an X11 session whenever I want to use that but using Wayland generally?
Depends on your DE and DM more than anything. Personally I’ve found that KDE/SDDM was a bit janky when logging out and back in without rebooting, even if it was just on x11 od wayland.
YMMV, but nothing fundamentally destructive can come from doing this, you’re doing something no different to logging out and back in as a different user
I’m not a Linux mobile expert but I think you can get it on a handful of older devices like the OnePlus 6. Limited support sadly since ARM insists on not enforcing UEFI (among other things)
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The fold is one of my faves too. Firstly, it’s not totally flat – Many of the other entries seem a little 2 dimensional for my tastes.
Secondly, the incorporation of the 6 is really well done. It evokes pride in this major release of KDE much like other systems have done in the past with integrating their major versions into the brand imagery, such as Windows from XP to 7.
Some of the other ones like the gear and triangles would be good for, i dunno, the start menu and iconography for KDE in general.
GIMP is painfully behind the times that I only use it out of sympathy for FOSS. I even prefer Photopea despite half the working area wasted on ads and browser UI.
Dont think you can use prime-select nvidia since it relies on xorg configs. In fact not sure if you can run the nvgpu as the only graphics card under any switcher app atm for wayland.
You should try envy control which has specific instructions for wayland use.
Touche should be installed and configured for X11 sessions. For Wayland I’m not sure but did assume they were working. You can try touchpad settings perhaps?
Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session....
Maybe a while ago that was true. But there’s so much cool stuff that KDE devs are spearheading with Wayland.
For example, You’ll be able to reboot the window server without ending your session and losing your app state! They’ve demonstrated being able to swap between GNOME, KDE, Sway, and other WMs without logging out or crashing apps. This could also be used for swapping active GPU configurations without relogging, which would make Gaming laptops way less shitty to use.
Wayland can also store window state to disk, which isn’t possible on X11. Another useful feature that could allow for more fluid hibernate and reboot behaviour.
Touchpad gestures! You need a lot of dev effort to get them working on X11 but on Wayland it’s very fluid.
Wayland is also partly why there’s been new effort to standardise the desktop experience on Linux with stuff like XDG.
For the end user, X11 is fine. You don’t need to particularly care how your windows are drawn. As an app or desktop dev you’ll be way more empowered to build a next generation desktop experience with Wayland, in a way that X11 just wasn’t able to support because of its underlying design.
But that’s also why the change can’t come from begging end users to migrate: we have to rely on distros dropping support for X and making Wayland the default.
Wayland works fine on Nvidia. And as long as NVidia is coddled with Xorg the longer they’ll not bother with Wayland. About time they got their act together
Plasma developer David Edmundson demonstrates how a desktop using Wayland, Qt6 and KWin can recover from a catastrophic crash as if nothing had happened.
Is there any way to change this order in the Application Launcher? ( lemmy.world )
Where should one post feature requests for KDE software?
I've seen a lot of conflicting information on the topic, so I'm curious if there is an updated official policy that I haven't been able to find.
It's official... KDE Neon *is* a distro!! ( invent.kde.org )
The mental pretzel is finally over.
Is 6.0.1 available on KDE Neon yet?
I haven’t seen the update come through to my system but since I have a more-than-slightly-borked grub setup, I have a feeling it could be to do with that....
Mouse offset in Firefox since update
Since the update, if I snap Firefox to the top the mouse seems to be offset a number of pixels compared to where the actual cursor is. It also affects the content in sites, not just stuff in Firefox....
SDDM is not complying with hidpi
Posted about it on reddit, and I’m bringing it here. Anyone has this issue?...
How do I fix the flickering on KDE with transparent themes? (AMDGPU laptop)
*-display...
This week in KDE: converging on a release ( pointieststick.com )
AUA: We are the Plasma dev team. Ask Us Anything about Plasma 6, gear 24.02, Frameworks 6 and everything else in the upcoming Megarelease.
David, Nate, Josh, Marco, Carl, and Niccolò are here ready to answer all your questions on Plasma (all versions), Gear, Frameworks, Wayland (and how it affects KDE’s software), and everything in between....
[Neon] [Wayland] Getting memory corruption artifacts when running a fullscreen app at a high/native resolution
I have a Lenovo 14aPH8 (Ideapad 5 gen 8?) which has a high DPI Screen with an AMD 7840HS (780m iGPU)....
Plasma Wayland Virtual Keyboard
I’m currently using gnome and I’d like to switch to plasma, but I can’t seem to find a decent wayland-compatible virtual keyboard. What would you guys recommend?
New programming language needed for KDE? ( gruenich.blogspot.com )
How do I stop KDE from saving files to RAM before copying to disk?
I don’t like that the KDE file transfer progress does not take in account the transfer from RAM to disk, and it only takes into account disk to RAM. I don’t want to wait for the “Don’t eject yet” message to disappear, because it sometimes stays too long, and I get worried if there could be an issue with KDE. How do I...
Is there any issue with switching frequently between Wayland and X11?
I can’t imagine there is but I’m wondering if I am missing something. I use GeForce Now and unfortunately it does not work in Plasma Wayland (issues with input redirection). Is there any problem with logging into an X11 session whenever I want to use that but using Wayland generally?
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fuck Adobe and fuck their licensing
I’m so absolutely sick of it.
"prime-select nvidia" and Wayland
I have an issue with NVIDIA and wayland which persists since Kubuntu 22.10. It still happens in 23.10....
How to enable four-finger touchpad gestures?
Not sure if it’s okay to ask for support in here, I’m just giving it a try. 🙂...
So let’s talk about this Wayland thing ( pointieststick.com )
Wayland. It comes up a lot: “Bug X fixed in the Plasma Wayland session.” “The Plasma Wayland session has now gained support for feature Y.” And it’s in the news quite a bit lately with the announcement that Fedora KDE is proposing to drop the Plasma X11 session for version 40 and only ship the Plasma Wayland session....