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

I didn't like how this article is written, it feels like the signal to noise ratio is terrible. I agree with the conclusion that KDE may be the best DE available for GNU available these days. It was the only DE to seamless support my multiscreen, mixed DPI, mixed refresh rates setup. And it wasn't complicated, I just turned scaling on for two of my monitors on the Settings menu, set the right refresh rate values, and everything just worked.

I hope they keep doubling down on bug fixing and being functional for end users.

This article is an awful lot of words for not much being said. I’m glad they like the improvements (I certainly do) but you’ll be hard pressed to extract what those actually are. This is kinda understandable, as plasma 6 is good because it’s a massive accumulation of lots of little fixes where usability was examined and adjusted rather than “major feature x and y”. But I don’t think most of us are here for feel good fluff for clicks.

I instead recommend looking at this developer’s personal blog if you want to read something substantial: https://pointieststick.com/category/this-week-in-kde/

The official blog is a decent general overview of the status of releases. FYI they are currently cleaning up some issues from the recent user facing release that weren’t in unstable/testing: https://blog.neon.kde.org/

Extensive recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39548088

I like KDE on technical level, but I can never fully reproduce the Gnome's "Meta key/hot right upper corner expose" flow, which really grew onto me over the years. Also, last time I tried (a year ago) it was simply crashing around once a day which was a deal breaker.

Did they streamline the konsole context menu yet? Last I looked at my laptop with kde it had like 900 options when I commonly use 3 and due to that are buried. That's my only big complaint with the system, its pretty damn good otherwise.