Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.

With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

  • kabuma
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    89 months ago

    2019! yes you have been living under a rock … it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine …

    • Jure RepincOP
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      109 months ago

      Well it does not even have to be fairly new, at least I do not consider my 8 years old PC as fairly new at all and it still is really good. As that is also one of the areas where Plasma has improved a lot during the years, they really have made it quite lightweight. Especially when considering how powerful and feature-full and configurable it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      it’s really good if you have a fairly new machine

      It’s running well on my 2013 laptop as well.

      • @shotgun_crab
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        19 months ago

        It runs fine on my 2009 laptop too, it’s solid

    • TwinTusks
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      -19 months ago

      Well my machine is over 10 years old at this point, so I’ll stay with gnome.