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Mostly positive althought there has been no shortage of bugs. That said, when I did a clean installation (not an upgrade), most of them disappeared, so I guess I’d recommend a fresh install. I still wouldn’t say it’s as stable as Gnome or Cinnamon, but the trajectory KDE have been on when it comes to making their DE less janky has been amazing recently.
There’s been a lot of subtle UI improvements that make KDE feel a lot less disjointed, although you still see it here and there.
The improvements to the overview (Gnome activities view clone) are great.
Compared to the absolute shit show that was Plasma 4 and 5 for their initial releases, Plasma 6 is amazing. It’s still not my DE of choice, but I keep it on one of my systems just to see the progress.
They borked some features which I used and haven’t fixed them yet.
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I use the fullscreen start menu. I can’t select search results with keyboard anymore.
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Inverting window colors doesn’t work for me anymore, after they set the default to wayland. (I used it for app’s which don’t have a dark theme)
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Focus stealing prevention (global setting and window rules) doesn’t work anymore.
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window positioning guidelines keep flickering in and out of existence all day, even when I don’t resize any windows.
You might want to report these. In the last This Week in KDE, it says:
This week we put some of the final Plasma 6.0 bugs to rest, and continued working towards Plasma 6.1
I mean, theoretically, this could mean that they decided these issues are a WONTFIX, but I imagine, they rather just don’t know of them.
At least the two I care about most already have an open issue in the bugtracker, which I am following for updates.
I’ll search for the other two when I am bothered enough and report them if they aren’t
3 has stopped working properly on X11 but it works on Wayland. The only reason I switched to Wayland. Of course, now I have different problems but focus stealing prevention works 🙂
Hmm interesting. I am on wayland for sure, but I tried to make it work for an hour yesterday.
How I noticed it:
I started an install process in pamac gui, then I tabbed to browser window and typed some stuff. Pamac finished downloads and asked for confirmation, the default being cancel and me typing ENTER cancelled it. Mouse was on the browser window and each app was on a different monitor.
I was able to repeatedly reproduce it by doing the same. I have set focus stealing prevention to high, which is described as focus only being stolen when the same type of window is active.
Is my issue maybe that both ran through xwayland? I’ll have to check that later.
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it works fine for me
It works fine for me. Not on wayland but that’s down to my Nvidia card and I hope explicit sync will sort it out.
Hi! I currently am on LMDE with Cinnamon (after trying a lot of distros and DE). I use laptops and so I am curious about trying wayland, which can offer a better experience with gestures, as far as I understand. Gnome is cool, but it is not flexible and I don’t want to install extensions over extensions. So I am thinking about KDE 6, again. I like it but at a certain point it drives me crazy. There is always something that doesn’t work well. Maybe it’s because I change too many things. I don’t know. Anyway, is it true that KDE 6 is not really stable yet or its stability level is simply the usual one?
I haven’t noticed a huge difference from kde 5. Wayland works for normal browsing and computer use but breaks when I play games so I’m still on x11.
It’s some apps still being broken, not the desktop. Screen sharing works perfectly fine for me in Slack, Teams (unofficial app by IsmaelMartinez) and web browsers. There’s also X11 to Wayland video bridge that can be used as temporary workaround in unsupported apps.
Discord is still broken even with that bridge. But that’s the only I found not working so far.
After a long time waiting, OBS seems to work with Wayland now. I use that to stream via Discord. Maybe worth a try?
Give Vesktop a try. It’s a clone of discord and they say they support wayland for streaming just fine. It works fine but I haven’t tried the wayland streaming thing yet.
I have it all installed. Discord native, discord flatkpak, vesktop. With vesktop you loose microphone sound auto detection and krysp. But yeah, sharing video works there also on the browser like firefox, but it’s a tradeoff of the rest.
Maybe it works better than flatpak? It’s basically the same thing. But I’m not gonna install snap just to try it.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
No idea what krysp is, but audio is flawless in my case. Granted, only really used on x11 so far. I use vesktop flatpak on debian sid.
I use the wayland session on an Intel machine with no dedicated GPU, works flawlessly for me.
Works great for me. I’m on X11 for now as an application for work refuses to work with Wayland - support page and I haven’t tried figuring out how to get it to use Xwayland.
Now that I think about it, I had one issue with screen tearing but that was more a driver issue with Nvidia.
Fixed most of my problems with Nvidia+Wayland. I still have to keep the explicit sync patched Xwayland around until it gets a new release, but other than that it works nearly flawless.
I had to wait a little for my favorite widgets to get updated to 6, now I’m good.
I have been using the Wayland session for a while (I was on for months on 5), and it solved so many multi-monitor woes it has been worth the switch. So far my only complaint is that remote access solutions are rather limited on Plasma, with Sunshine and Moonlight being the only consistently working solution, as Krfb (VNC) crashes randomly, doesn’t handle modifier keys well and forces you to click “OK” on a dialog every startup, thus making it useless for unattended access (Plasma issue).Other than remote access, no complaints.
Overwhelmingly positive.
