ConnexionKDE Plasma 6.0 Has Arrived, This is What’s New
KDE Plasma 6 has arrived. The first stable release in an all-new series of the phenomenally popular Linux desktop environment is now available to download. KDE Plasma 6 improves security, performance, usability, and hardware support Naturally, a major milestone like this one includes a deluge of changes, enhancements, and shiny new features, the best of which I look at in this post. But I want to touch on the “intangible” changes too. KDE Plasma 6.0 upgrades its underlying application framework, Qt, to a major new version, and fully embraces the Wayland display server. “These under-the-hood upgrades benefit Plasma’s security, efficiency, […]
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Kubuntu 24.04 LTS will not use KDE Plasma 6.0 by default. Kubuntu Council member Rick Timmis shared an overview of a recent meeting at which it was “unanimously agreed” to, among other things, prepare an alpha of KDE Plasma 6 targeting the 24.10 release due October rather than April’s LTS release. Ubuntu Studio lead Erich Eickmeyer also refers to the agreement on Discourse, confirming that “the Kubuntu Council voted unanimously to stay on Plasma 5 for the time being.” “I’m the leader of Ubuntu Studio, which also uses Plasma, and would’ve had something to say about any last-minute (at this […]