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KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really want to use wayland - and even though maybe I shouldn't I still do on my laptop - but man... on Plasma 5 that thing is borked. And I'm not even running on NVIDIA.

Whenever the system wakes up from sleep or an external display reconnects all open windows are gone and the system enters a weird state which forces me to reboot. How was "all windows are lost when the compositor crashes" not something fixed in the early days, is beyond me. That must make even developing for Wayland unnecessarily difficult/annoying.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I wonder if they consulted Plasma devs about it. Sure they said that they aim to make Wayland ready for Plasma 6, but it didn't sound like it was an actual plan for 6.0. After all they got their hands full with Qt 6 porting, and there are still major roadblocks with completing Wayland support, while 6.0 is about to have its alpha release already.

Knowing Fedora devs however, I suspect they didn't. They switched to Plasma Wayland by default several Fedora releases ago, when it was in no way ready. I guess I will switch to a different distro when this time comes.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, as usual the opinionated crew are making something that one may even like feel like it's forced down everyone's throat (see: systemd, snap...) and making everything worse. I don't see how any Linux desktop distro worth its salt can get by ignoring 90% of the PC GPU market share and essentially forcing them into an inferior desktop experience for pure ideology's sake, and I LIKE Wayland. I even put up with all its quirks in a particularly quirky implementation (KWin). But this ain't it if you want users to use your OS.

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