>Plasma will crash on me 2-3 times per day just doing regular things
This is not normal. Do a RAM test to see if you have a hardware issue.
This is not normal. Do a RAM test to see if you have a hardware issue.
This was apparently fixed in version 590 of the driver which was released only recently: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/fd-leak-with-explicit-...
I've been running plasma for over a year, there was like 1 crash during the 5->6 transition, it's otherwise been perfectly fine.
Even things as basic as handling the wallpapers was crashing users' desktops up until recently: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.5-Crash-Fixes
Literally any piece of complex software. See LLVM for example. LLVM is the backbone of most compiler work in the world right now.
Does KDE use RAM differently than every other software?
It has become reasonable graceful in giving it back when you you need it nowadays.
It's kinda infamous for that, and had held up Linux adoption for a decade or so.
But you sort of missed the point, I think. The comment chain was about speculating why KDE could possibly crash if there was faulty RAM while other software would be fine. And the kernel absolutely crashes when there's faulty ram.