Trying Plasma for a bit to see how green the grass is as a longtime Gnome user. The last time I ran Plasma on my main desktop was version 5.11, I think? It’s been a while…

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    How is it??

    I last used it a little while back but there were some issues with polish. I’d like to come back and check it out again now that there’s been a major update if I remember right

    I love the GNOME user experience and apps (I know many don’t, that’s fine) but don’t so much love the way GNOME as a project often struggles to play nicely with others 😅

    • atmur@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      I’m amazed by the level of polish overall, I’ve encountered very little jankiness that used to be super common with Plasma when I last tried it. Plasma feels like a really mature desktop now, which is awesome. I’m running Plasma 6.2 at the moment, and I think 6.3 is right around the corner as well.

      My problems so far are more subjective. Gnome may be a very opinionated desktop, but I happen to agree with most of its opinions. Gnome’s workspaces feature is miles better than Plasma’s virtual desktops, which feel tacked on in comparison. I’m still trying to tinker with this to make it work for me, but honestly this seems like the thing that will push me back to Gnome if I don’t find a workflow I like.

      KDE obviously has more features overall though, HDR support happens to be the one that I’m interested in at the moment since I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a new monitor.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        Thats honestly really exciting to hear, I’m curious to give it another try again. No idea if I’ll ever switch from GNOME, but it makes me happy to see the project doing well

      • m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 days ago

        As a long time KDE user I have to agree with you.

        I hated the turn things took from Gnome3 onwards but I really like the “workspaces per demand” feature of it. It makes much more sense than having a static number of virtual desktops.

        Though I concede KDE did not do much about virtual desktops but concentrated on activities instead - but it seems like with Plasma 6 they are backpedalling on that as it would require integration from everyone, most of all non KDE apps to make it make sense.

        Do not even get me started on not being able to set a different wallpaper for each virtual desktop.

        I recall there was a kwin script somewhere to emulate the dynamic virtual desktops thing, but that would be much better if it was an upstream feature.

      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        4 days ago

        I haven’t really used them since I don’t have any reason to, but perhaps Plasma’s “activities” would be a better substitute for workspaces?