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.
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.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I almost switched to KDE from XFCE because I wanted a desktop with a bit “more” but it ran like crap on my PC. Idk if it is because of KDE issues or my GTX 960 is just too old.
Not the GPU itself but rather its drivers. Plasma 6 flies on potatoe laptop integrated graphics in power saving mode.
I’d say the GTX 960 is unlikely to be the bottleneck. Plasma really does not need a recent GPU.
@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.
do you use an SSD? from my experience, that can make a really big difference with Plasma
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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.
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@be @leopold That might be it as I use the proprietary drivers. I’ll just stick to XFCE.
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@be @leopold I’ll probably just stick with XFCE for now.
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
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last time I used KDE was today. you probably meant to reply to someone else, tho.
woops, indeed 😇
I run KDE 6 on Core 2 Duo with Nvidia 9400/nouveau.
@shanesemler @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social For what it’s worth: I still run KDE Plasma 5 on a core 2 duo and a period correct low tier gpu, it won’t blow your socks off, but it works fine, and i have no reason to believe that 6 should perform worse.