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Opinions on KDE Plasma 6 (lemmy.ml)

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[+] KindaABigDyl -10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

Absolutely unusable for one big reason: still no good tiling options in KDE. They got me hopeful with their tiled area system but then dropped the ball on execution. An OS without tiling is functionally unusable for real work. There aren't even any good KWin scripts for it. At least Windows has stuff like FancyWM. Will not be using any time soon. GNOME, with the ability to install Pop Shell 2, is by far the superior DE, and it's not even close, and I'll stick to that for most things and a WM/compositor (in this case Hyprland) on my main machine. KDE is and will continue to be trash until they can add true tiling support. Might as well some 1980s looking WM like OpenBox. That's what KDE is. Old and unusable. Nothing else they "improve" matters since the core of operations doesn't function.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Chill dude. Bismuth for Plasma 5 was amazing, and Polonium is shaping up to be a great succesor on Plasma 6. This is open source. You can fight and support your cause. But your attitude would make Pop Shell devs burn their own project down out of fear 😅.

[–] KindaABigDyl 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Bismuth for Plasma 5

Nah. I couldn't get behind Bismuth either. You had rigid ways you could arrange your windows with no way to adjust.

For instance, you can't get a layout like this with Bismuth (or any dynamic tilers that I know of, i.e. dynamic tilers aren't worth using):

---------------------------------------
| A                    | B            |
|                      |--------------|
|----------------------| C            |
| E        | F         |--------------|
|          |           | J    |   K   |
---------------------------------------

The closest in Bismuth would be using master and slave like:

---------------------------------------
| A                    | B            |
|                      |--------------|
|                      | C            |
|----------------------|--------------|
| E                    | J            |
|----------------------|--------------|
| F                    | K            |
---------------------------------------

Which isn't nearly as useful

I gave Plasma a genuine, honest try, both 5 and 6, and it was a complete let down.

But your attitude would make Pop Shell devs burn their own project down out of fear

Nah bc the Pop Shell devs have done an AMAZING job. The new COSMIC will make KDE and GNOME look like pet projects when it drops.

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