Today, I have for ye a detailed review of the new Plasma 6.4 desktop environment, covering look and feel, new dark theme, numerous ergonomic regressions, significant problems with basic font rendering and raw performance in a Wayland session on a system with integrated AMD graphics, superior X11 session behavior, problems with Discover and software management, various issues and bugs in the underlying KDE neon platform - installer inconsistency, disappearing icons, default browser configuration, repeatable Samba connectivity crash, apt error messages, alarming future trend for the Linux desktop, other observations, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-6-4-review.html Cheers, Mrk
The blurring happened on all form factors in Wayland, it was as if you see the rendering in real time, every second or two, almost like a blur effect in movies sometimes. Very subtle but for me, perceptible. Mrk
Thank you for the review. The GPU that jumps to 100% every 2-3 seconds, nonstop, that is worrying. The blurriness is bad also. And the missing option to change the gamma setting is not good. I understand plasma-session-x11 can be installed in Kubuntu 25.10. I don't know if that is the case for KDE neon as well. For the future, I really hope Wayland will be OK, without the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
That's a good start. I would hope the fix would be implemented under the hood, but for now, for the end user, at least the artifacts won't be visible. Mrk
