Plasma 5.21 review - Very slick, just one or five oily patches

Discussion in 'all things UNIX' started by Mrkvonic, Mar 8, 2021.

  1. Mrkvonic

    Mrkvonic Linux Systems Expert

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    A new week, a new Linux review. This time, I'm taking Plasma 5.21 for a spin, covering an in-vivo upgrade, look and feel, new theming, fonts and HD scaling, desktop tweaks and polish, Discover improvements, System Monitor, firewall control, various bugs, problems, regressions and crashes, and more. Take a look.

    https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-5-21-review.html


    Cheers,
    Mrk
     
  2. Joxx

    Joxx Registered Member

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    Thanks.
     
  3. chrisretusn

    chrisretusn Registered Member

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    Good review. My only complaints are the large icons for Favorites on the new Application Launcher. I am not to fond of the new System Monitor, but I can see it has promise. The one thing that annoyed me the most was the Widget replacements. I was using a CPU monitoring widget. Those old widget has been replaced by (in my opinion) useless new System Monitor widgets

    KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.2
    KDE Frameworks Version: 5.79.0
    Qt Version: 5.15.2
    Kernel Version: 5.11.4
    OS Type: 64-bit
    Graphics Platform: X11
    Processors: 4 × AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840 Processor
    Memory: 7.8 GiB of RAM
    Graphics Processor: GeForce GT 730/PCIe/SSE2
     
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