Just to get it out of the way: I’m a bit older than of most you. I’m an old school FOSS contributor: Slackware, couple kernel merges, and some weak device driver contributions.
I’m just not WOW’d by this Plasma release that is spoken as a Herculean effort. I’m seeing the news everywhere, and it seems everyone is clamoring to get it, but it mostly seems like 90% cosmetic changes, no? I must be missing something.
Here are the things I’ve gathered are non-cosmetic:
- Update to QT6
- Better Wayland interactions (HDR notable)
- Compositor improvements for gaming
Everything else seems like eye candy. I feel like Gnome and forks, or Xfce have been faster to the fight on these things, and this KDE release took many years. So what do I have wrong here?
I’d want to try it in a VM in Gnome Boxes. What distribution would you recommend for a first try after years of Gnome on Fedora?
Probably the Fedora 40 KDE spin, which will come out in April
Well I guess I’ll try the Fedora 40 spin if it’s really vanilla KDE the way Workstation is vanilla Gnome.
As far as I know, it should be vanilla. I haven’t tried the KDE version though, as I’ll be switching to Kinoite/Fedora Atomic KDE when Fedora 40 releases. My understanding is that Fedora doesn’t really make opinionated changes to their DEs, but I don’t know that for a fact.
I don’t know it’s shipping in anything but the bleeding edge distros just yet.
Nobara released it a couple days ago. I updated yesterday and it seems good.