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I use KDE daily, including a multi-monitor setup, and it is not buggy in my experience. Like, at all, much less "very, very." I wonder why we have had such different experiences? I'm using Fedora.

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Maybe he's using an older KDE release or on a not-first-class distro which doesn't ship with it out of the box, like Mint.

"very very" was a bit exaggerated but it's far from perfect. There's always something. I'm using KDE neon which should be as new as it gets. For multi monitor: it forgets that I had a second desktop, renders it black, switching between two monitors and none is also error prone.. it's not "bad" I'm used to it but as I said, some bug been here for a while now.

Are you using nvidia drivers by any chance?

And correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t KDE neon supposed to be a bit less stable?

The black desktop used to happen on every brand of GPU (I have a mix of Intel and AMD), it just had to be the third or the fourth display, something like that. Or after sleeping and waking. I used to have it a lot.

I haven’t seen it in a while, though, so it just might be they have fixed it. Fedora + zawertun COPR, for what it’s worth.

I recently fixed this issue with KDE not coming back from sleep by setting it so that the VRAM is all saved on my nvidia card: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Nvidia

Trying to explain it I'm actually not sure I 100% understand the solution. It looks like it uses systemd for sleep AND saves all of the VRAM (I'm guessing into RAM if I'm using anything other than hibernate).

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