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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more. (cdn.masto.host)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

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Plasma 6.0 has been released. Check out the new overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6

#Plasma6

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[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I'd say the GTX 960 is unlikely to be the bottleneck. Plasma really does not need a recent GPU.

[–] shanesemler@metalhead.club 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@leopold That's the thing though, I built the current PC during the pandemic and crypto craze. Everything is relatively new, except the GPU, because I couldn't afford one, but I needed a better CPU for audio recording and editing.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 8 months ago

do you use an SSD? from my experience, that can make a really big difference with Plasma

[–] be@floss.social 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

@shanesemler @leopold IIRC the proprietary nVidia drivers only work at 30 fps with KDE Wayland.

You don't need a super duper GPU to run Plasma at a smooth framerate. My 8th gen integrated Intel GPU works fine.

[–] shanesemler@metalhead.club 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@be @leopold That might be it as I use the proprietary drivers. I’ll just stick to XFCE.

[–] be@floss.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@shanesemler @leopold You could also try a KDE X11 session.

[–] shanesemler@metalhead.club 1 points 8 months ago

@be @leopold I'll probably just stick with XFCE for now.

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

that is definitely not the case. that would make the plasma wayland session essentially unusable on nvidia, even though many users have reported it working fine.

[–] be@floss.social 1 points 8 months ago

@leopold I no longer have a machine with an nVidia GPU, but when I did a year ago, Wayland was limited to low framerates where every animation was choppy.

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

When was the last time you used KDE? It's been able to run on low-spec machines since KDE4 which about a decade old

[–] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

last time I used KDE was today. you probably meant to reply to someone else, tho.

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

woops, indeed 😇