KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta Release

2 years ago by MazonnaCara89 to c/linux

KDE Ships Plasma 6.1 Beta.
floofloof 18 points 2 years ago

Lots of genuinely useful things and tangible improvements to look forward to on this list. What a contrast with Windows announcements these days, which are full of features that are either trivial or user-hostile.

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tgxn 10 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, just adding a toolbar here, some ads in the start menu there. Sprinkling of user tracking and cloud account for local login. đŸ€Ł

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redbr64 17 points 2 years ago

Awesome Can't wait to have all the pieces in place for explicit sync. It will require the Nvidia 555 driver, right?

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dinckelman 9 points 2 years ago
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tgxn 8 points 2 years ago path: 0 10247510 10254507, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 9
dan 2 points 2 years ago

Are there guides for this in Fedora and Debian?

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tgxn 3 points 2 years ago

Nah, unfortunately I don't know how easy it is to run these packages on Debian/Fedora 😔 I only use Debian on my headless VMs, not for desktop environments.

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zerakith 2 points 2 years ago

Were you having any kernel panics before this beta?

I was having this issue https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/... I disabled the GPU for the time being and was hoping the new driver would fix.

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tgxn 3 points 2 years ago

Hmm, I was on 550 before upgrading, I was using x11 before upgrading to 555. Hadn't noticed any issues but vsync has definitely improves with 555.

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zerakith 3 points 2 years ago

I was experiencing with both X11 and Wayland. I'll give 555 a test. Thanks!

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Fungah 1 point 2 years ago

Happy to report that the 555 beta still just gives me a black screen before rebooting the computer. Though after a few attempts it did display some garbled Greg shit.

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0oWow 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah I have not got it to work on my computer either.

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redbr64 1 point 2 years ago

Hmmm I am on EndeavourOS and was just gonna wait a little longer, but now I am tempted to just push into the 555 beta. I mean, that's what btrfs snapshots are for amirite?

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Fungah 0 points 2 years ago
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Mazoku 5 points 2 years ago

Nice. Does anyone else have laggy animations when shutting down their pc from the start menu? Or when messing with the toggles in the taskbar (like calendar)? Just all around laggy animations. Doesn’t bother me that much but curious if it’s a known issue

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mitrosus 2 points 2 years ago

I also see delayed response in displaying shutdown options.

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MazonnaCara89 2 points 2 years ago

Is your cache folder on a hdd?

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Mazoku 1 point 2 years ago

No everything is on an nvme ssd

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zerakith 1 point 2 years ago

Me too. Noticeable Delay around 6s.

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Interstellar_1 5 points 2 years ago

Nice changes!

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Fizz 3 points 2 years ago

Whole lot of great improvements but the one that got me excited was "Support for syncing the color of your keyboard's RGB backlight with Plasma's accent color" hopefully it works with my keyboard. Since I moved to Linux I haven't been able to change the color from the default rainbow.

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MazonnaCara89 3 points 2 years ago

Have you tried using openrgb?

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Fizz 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks I just tried it out and it worked. I can finally use my rgb.

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MazonnaCara89 2 points 2 years ago

No problem!

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D_Air1 1 point 2 years ago

I'm already beta testing it. A solid improvement. Fixes a lot of long standing issues and makes quite a few existing features easier to use.

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