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[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ugh... they got Plasma everywhere!

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They saw a qt and couldn't help themselves.

[–] sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I already installed it at my private workstation and it's bonkers.

Some bugs left, but all in all it is working super already.

Kudos to the people from kde. This one will clearly be a superb product

[–] nix@merv.news 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What are you favorite things about it?

[–] k_rol@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

Well that's exciting. I'm personally waiting for the possibility to change the gamma when in wayland.

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

I'm pretty sure that most people won't be able to tell the difference between 5 and 6.

Seems like minor changes to me.

I once did enjoy KDE but always hated the font, icons and everything in the UI is lines. Makes it hard to comprehend things quickly.

In the end I realised the Gnome-based UI is far better for legibility and comprehension. I'm on Linux Mint Debian Edition with Cinnamon and it's great.