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?

  • Para_lyzed@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    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.