KDE Had An Exciting Week With Plasma Available On The Steam Deck, Many Fixes

[aufkrawall]

Really nice to see more and more glitches disappear on Wayland, it already runs so much better than Windows on slow devices. A few more rounds of bug fixing and polishing and it might be close to golden.

[cjcox]

Will Steam Deck use Wayland or Xorg as default?

Would think Wayland. Some said they want to wait for the "Nvidia" Steam Deck (not gonna happen), in which case Xorg... because...

[Mar2ck]

KDE Plasma is the default desktop in the "developer mode"

Are you sure you need to enable developer mode to access the desktop? Trusted Reviews had the "Switch to desktop option" even though he had developer mode disabled.

[Baguy]

Will Steam Deck use Wayland or Xorg as default?

X11 for Plasma for now. But the gamescope compositor used to actually play games is Wayland.

[smitty3268]

i guess kde had much to celebrate after getting trashed by the tech mainstream.

LOL. 13 comments in 8 years and that's what you post?

Is this a sock puppet account for someone? Mario Junior?

[Firnefex]

Will Steam Deck use Wayland or Xorg as default?

[Baguy]

I hope that valve will be committing some people to plasma support so everyone can benefit, but I also appreciate that they don’t really have much reason to do so

They already have been committing people to Plasma. That's why there's been so much progress in the past couple releases.

[Nth_man]

> File dialogs are now faster to open when their initial view is a network location

That was a good catch:

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma...uests/35/diffs

[Mario Junior]

i guess kde had much to celebrate after getting trashed by the tech mainstream.

Trashed with good reason.

[bple2137]

i guess kde had much to celebrate after getting trashed by the tech mainstream.

I watched every single review to the point I'm tired. KDE wasn't much of a focus there. If something is being trashed is the Steam UI itself or lacking compatibility with certain games, errors and quirks in general. What Plasma was used for by most, was getting some apps from Flatpak using Discover, like Discord or emulators and then adding them to Steam. I've even seen some nice comment of one reviewer being surprised that the desktop interface is user-friendly and it's really simple to install apps.

I don't think the Linux environment will be praised by the tech mainstream, but I don't see any reason for that to be considered unusable by a normie... At least for stuff that's easily doable.