The Vision For KDE Plasma According To Its Developers

[aufkrawall]

There's no hunger anywhere in the world because I'm eating a sandwich right now.

Compositing problems is a very common issue in the Linux world. Tried out my Skylake IGP on Arch and Gnome, and guess what: Result wasn't perfect, desktop compositing ran with 75Hz but Firefox continued to run with 60Hz.

No need to always bash Plasma for things that are flawed in a much broader way.

[bug77]

Aren't many bugs related to upstream projects as well? I mean if developers use software from a stable platform they hardly will notice the bug fixes that made it work... at least my experience on Arch Linux with testing enabled showed a lot of bugs that a developer must notice as well, but I guess all the upstream packages like the latest Qt are not considered early enough (even though it is the fault of e.g. Qt it they break something).

The thing is, KDE must run an various stacks (Qt, drivers and whatnot). It's the distro maintainers' job to make sure they publish stuff that works together. As Neon demonstrates, it is possible to have a working Plasma environment that is also lean. KDE itself cannot control which Qt or driver runs underneath it, it can only require a minimum version.
I imagine Gnome (or any other DE) faces the same challenges.

[M@GOid]

Reading through the comments in KDE or Gnome news, I always finde people complaining about Nvidia drivers causing some bug on a DE. For some reason that makes me a happy opensource AMD user :-)

[RealNC]

I got KWin compositing running with 75Hz and video playback in mpv is stutter-free.

There's no hunger anywhere in the world because I'm eating a sandwich right now.

[RealNC]

If you're going to troll, you might want to focus on a problem that hasn't been fixed a long time ago.

No. Both problems are still there on latest version.

[andyprough]

Gotta hand it to the Linux community, they actually have managed to make their two leading destkops, KDE and Gnome, suck worse than each other.

People like you are job security for the rest of us who know how to configure and run the desktops properly.

[shmerl]

Plasma 5 is fantastic and is becoming a great DE! Many bugs have been resolved, with the latest Plasma versions seem to have a good degree of stability and is not eating ram like Gnome.

Now if only Debian testing could get it. It's still stuck with outdated Plasma 5.8.7.

[Charlie68]

Plasma 5 is fantastic and is becoming a great DE! Many bugs have been resolved, with the latest Plasma versions seem to have a good degree of stability and is not eating ram like Gnome.

[smitty3268]

Using KDE feels like having your mom pick out your porn for you.

I guess I'll have to bow to your superior knowledge of what that feels like.

[R41N3R]

Aren't many bugs related to upstream projects as well? I mean if developers use software from a stable platform they hardly will notice the bug fixes that made it work... at least my experience on Arch Linux with testing enabled showed a lot of bugs that a developer must notice as well, but I guess all the upstream packages like the latest Qt are not considered early enough (even though it is the fault of e.g. Qt it they break something).