If Fedora 40 had a headlining change, it might be @kde Plasma 6. The KDE SIG have brought over all the hard work from that community to give you a solid desktop experience from day 1.
We're also pushing technology forward by making this release Wayland-only, though X11 apps will still work!
Plasma 6 is also available for our Kinoite users. :kinoite:
Here is my new GNU/Linux distribution guide about Debian KDE 12, the right GNU/Linux distribution for professional digital painting in 2024! Also about three major problems with GNU/Linux distros that will drive away all professional artists, IMO, and how I got kicked out of the Fedora KDE ecosystem with F40, which imposed Plasma6 and Wayland. I hope it helps other artists here!
A video of the xenon piece I made on Friday hooked up to a standard electronic transformer. On most of these it has this lightning in a bottle effect. You can hear the arc bouncing off the walls of the glass in its staticy white noise. It's reactive to touch an electrical currents
The stuff lighting up nearby is from the electric fields coming off the wire. Sloppy wiring on this little tester setup.
You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?
A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in #KDE 's #Plasma desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] ("Windows") key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.
Did you know #postmarketOS has been shipping nightly built #Plasma6 packages for a while now? It has been useful so far for #plasma developers to develop and make #PlasmaMobile Qt6 ready, but it's also a great way for more experienced users to help test out KDE and catch bugs early!
I gave KDE Plasma Mobile another go. It improved a LOT over the past few months. No crashes yet! It's a lot more stable now. Although not as stable as Phosh.
I like their whole "just copy Android" philosophy. Everything feels familiar and intuitive. I might keep it like this.
This week, we have #RedHat restricting access to the source code for RHEL (technically not illegal, but very likely unethical), we have a big progress report on #KDE#Plasma 6, and the beta for Linux Mint 21.2, which is a way bigger update than its small number bump:
FOSS - ensuring even new hardware stays in use when vendor-support eventually ends!
Whether or not you install GNU/Linux on it today, your new #Mac will eventually lose #Apple support. Thanks to the impressive work of #Asahi#Linux project (@AsahiLinux), it will not need to end up in the landfill once it does.
My music stopped playing, the phone rang, I answered it.
After speaking for a few minutes, I hung up and the music started up again.
It took me a second to realize that the music wasn't coming from my phone, it was coming from my computer.
#KDEConnect is groovy, y'all. It pauses your music when a phone call comes in. (MPRIS-compatible player required, of course, but even mpv on the command line can do that)
Gonna be honest here: I’m on vacation right now, so this week’s blog post is going to be a bit lazy. I probably missed some things, so if you were expecting to see your work here and di…
Matrix certrainly has its rough edges, but I find it awesome that pretty much every major Linux community now has their dedicated space. All federated, of course.
We've now merged all KDE 6 packages to Rawhide so we don't need a special image to try it and you can directly use Fedora Kinoite Rawhide. Instructions to move to this image in the same place: https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/11/22/kinoite-plasma-6/
Testing Artemis on Linux via Waydroid
Overall no problems found yet. This will be rather useful for faster testing, along with tablet UI testing later on.
Wild new NASA plasma tech reduces drag during hypersonic flight (www.space.com)
The agency claims the technology is 'simpler than conventional methods for control of hypersonic craft.'
This week in KDE: Plasma 6 development continues (pointieststick.com)
Gonna be honest here: I’m on vacation right now, so this week’s blog post is going to be a bit lazy. I probably missed some things, so if you were expecting to see your work here and di…