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On latest NixOS unstable and KDE + Wayland is still a bit of a dumpster fire for me (3070 + latest NV drivers). In particular there’s a buffer wait bug in EGL that needs fixing on the Nvidia side that causes the Plasma UI to become unresponsive. Panels are also broken for me, with icons not showing.

Having said that, the latest is a pain on X11 right now as well, with frequent crashing of Plasma, which atleast restarts itself.

There’s a lot of bleeding on the bleeding edge right at this moment :)

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That's interesting, maybe it's hardware-dependent? I'm doing nixos + KDE + Wayland and I've had almost no issues in day-to-day usage and productivity.

I agree with you that there's a lot of bleeding. Linux is nicer than it used to be and there's less fiddling required to get to a usable base, but still plenty of fiddling as you get into more niche usage, especially when it involves any GPU hardware/software. Yet somehow one can run Elden Ring on Steam via Proton with a few mouse clicks and no issues, which would've been inconceivable to me only a few years ago.

Yeah it’s pretty awesome overall. I think the issues are from a few things on my end:

- I’ve upgraded through a few iterations starting with Plasma 6, so my dotfiles might be a bit wonky. I’m not using Home Manager so my dotfiles are stateful.

- Could be very particular to my dock setup as I have two docks + one of the clock widgets.

- Could be the particular wallpaper I’m using (it’s one of the dynamic ones that comes with KDE).

- It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s related to audio somehow as I have Bluetooth set-up for when I need it.

I’m sure it’ll settle soon enough :)

I've been having a similar flakiness with plasma on Nixos (proprietary + 3070 as well). Sadly can't say whether it did{n't} happen on another distro as I last used Arch around the v535 driver.

I found it funny how silently it would fail at times. After coming out of a game or focusing on something I'd scratch my head as to where did the docks/background went. I'd say you're lucky in that it recovered itself, generally I needed to run `plasmashell` in the alt+f2 run prompt.

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