This ain't no April Fools' joke. This is a detailed review of the Plasma 5.27 desktop environment, tested twice, in a live session and installed vanilla KDE neon User Edition distribution, including look and feel, customization, HD scaling, Discover behavior, Welcome Center, online accounts, performance, responsiveness, various bugs and inconsistencies, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-5-27-review.html Cheers, Mrk
Always enjoy read these. Slackware64-current got Plasma 5.27.0 on Feb March 15, currently at 5.25.3 I prefer the single click mouse. Think is a carry over from my UNIX days. I too found Kate's Welcome thing annoying, easy to fix; Configure Kate, Session. uncheck Show Welcome View. I do agree, not much here over the earlier releases, which for me was 5.26. That said I really do enjoy Plasma.
Its available in the Kubuntu experimental PPA. After upgrading the rest of Kubuntu 22.04 LTS with the Kubuntu Backports PPA and Kubuntu Backports Extra PPA, the upgrade to KDE 27.3 was smooth and uneventful! For those who care, its a KDE LTS build.
Me too although in the early stages there was more lost than gained when KDE4 was terminated. That said it's still possible to find the odd 4 version that is still supported apart from the CentOS clones. This for instance is ROSA FRESH 11.1 with KDE4 fully updated and running like a dream on a Dell OptiPlex 3060. https://imgur.com/a/7ij1vRs
I've been using KDE ever since Slackware removed GNOME2. That was a one heck of a transition. I left Slackware for awhile but went back. I played with Xfce but then settled and adapted to KDE3, the transition to KDE4 from KDE3 was a bit rough, but I adapted. Moving to KDE5 was a breeze. I have settled in with KDE now, no desire to try anything else right now.
Transition from KDE3 to KDE4 doesn't happened in my case, because my desktop had too old GPU and abandoned drivers. Similar to transition to Windows Vista - never happened. I recall I used other desktops and really missed old Amarok from KDE3 (screenshots of version 1.4 seems familiar). For me that old Amarok was a sweet spot between bloat of newer versions and simplicity of basic music players.
For some reason, GNOME segfaults with certain extensions. Can't find out which one triggers a Shell crash. With Budgie, I never have a problem with the underlying GNOME stack. Always a consistent and stable experience.
