Technology @lemmy.ml Jure Repinc @lemmy.ml 8mo ago

KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special

www.zdnet.com KDE Neon shows that the Plasma 6 Linux distro is something truly special

If you've been anxiously awaiting KDE Plasma 6, the wait is over and it was well worth it.

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Why are people so hung up on having a dock instead of a full width taskbar??? What's with all these gaps all over the place? I really hate that fad. And wayland as default in KDE Neon? Not my favorite.

HDR support though... that's nice.

Anyway, like they say: Don't knock it 'til you try it.

So I guess I'll download the image and run it in a VM to try it out.
- I like how gaps make things feel a little less cluttered, and show off the colors of my wallpaper. Same reason I use i3 with gaps on. It feels like everything is nicely organized instead of shoved together. In the end it's just an aesthetic preference.
  
  Of course! To each their own.
  
  I'm surprised you find that the gaps makes things feel less cluttered. Imo it looks considerably more cluttered.
- To each their own, I like having as little as possible on my desktop while still being usable :P
  
  Kinda jealous of the HDR support as a GNOME user though, rooting for both sides.
- dock instead of a full width taskbar
  
  As long as autohide works reliably, I don't care what it looks like. I almost never interact with it anyway since I just use the keyboard to launch things.
- Yeah also don't like the dock, but with KDE Plasma at least you can make it full width as it is so nicely customizable. VM, oooo I wonder how it will run there, I guess it will be quite slow, at least Plasma 5 was a lot slower in VB for me than later on real hardware, so it might not be well representative.
  
  I tried a couple recently using qemu. It ran pretty smoothly.
- I have a 4k and a 21:9 1440p display and I'm sure anyone who gives 5 seconds to think about it will agree the bottom panel is a total waste of space past the usual 1920px width - unless you have an absurd amount of widgets there.
  
  So not only I agree with the gaps, but I have my panel centered to approx. a third of the display width and there's still plenty of space to fit open windows there.
  
  Full width panel is a legacy choice that just doesn't make much sense with nowadays screens.
Wish I could try Wayland, can't seem to get it to load. Fortunately when they pushed the update of Wayland as default they didn't remove x11 support. Still been pretty happy with kde neon for the last few years

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