This week in KDE: KDE-powered SteamDeck revealed
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A lot of people have faced quite a few frustrations with both bugs and performance regressions when updating to new KDE releases in past. And it doesn't help that really awesome apps like Konqueror got discontinued. And also given the history of myriad shenanigans around Qt's licensing, it is not surprising that the open source community gravitated towards a platform (Gnome) that was built and evolved in the open.
It is interesting that you compare this with Firefox, because these parallels can be extended to FF too. A lot of us moved away from FF because chrome was a breath of fresh air in terms of performance when it arrived and has since had trailblazing support for modern web standards.
Sure both FF & KDE may be in much much better state now, but it is worth acknowledging that for the wider population there is a lot of inertia when it comes to foundational technologies that are critical for their day-to-day work. If it works, and is getting better, there is usually little motivation to jump ship. Even less so, if you have already jumped across the same ships in past.
Some competition is, of course, always good to have and I am very happy to see both platforms evolving.
Do you have a reference for this? Konqueror appears to be alive and well from a quick search. I ask because I use Konqueror from time to time and I have not seen or heard anything about it being discontinued. Latest release was a week ago and the git repo appears active.
Processors get more powerful when you disable security mitigations, too!
I have been using Linux on and off since I think Ubuntu 8 or 10 days so a long time but this full time experience has been much better.
I can do bash and am not scared of terminal. That is nice.
I always read planet.KDE.org and its a fun place.
KDE now with steamdeck means more people are going to get exposure to KDE which is always a good thing
Plasma does support Wayland and has for some time. Some distros are even considering defaulting to Wayland now. There have been substantial improvements to Wayland support in the last few months making it an acceptable daily driver, at least for me with 1 HDPI screen.
Do you mean specific Wayland support for multiple screens? I have played with the KwinFT fork and found it be better for screen management.
Kubuntu 21.04 defaults to Wayland.