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2"This Week in Plasma" brings the news that devs are hard at work polishing Plasma 6.7 due to be released on the 16th of June.
Annoying bugs, like a crash when a monitor was quickly switched off and on again, or being unable to recover a window you have dragged off the edge of a screen, are being solved to make sure your experience with your upcoming desktop environment is smooth and pleasant.
https://blogs.kde.org/2026/05/30/this-week-in-plasma-6.7-beta-2-released/
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13@feld@friedcheese.us @gianmarcogg03@mastodon.uno @kde@floss.social I think everyone and their cat knows about elogind by now?
What do you mean by "real desktop experience"? What would constitute a "fake" one?
By the way, you can get the Plasma desktop experience by typing
startplasma-wayland
or
startplasma-x11
from the command line.
No login manager of any description required—except your fingers.
Here is a presentation you may find interesting:
It is about the stuff that "just worked" for someone trying to use FreeBSD, an OS with no systemd in sight, as an end user. It is by Deb Goodkin, Executive Director of the FreeBSD Foundation.
Check out slide 9.
TL;DR "I have to make up a really convoluted and faulty scenario, while surreptitiously moving the goalposts 50 miles into a totally different county just so I don't have to admit I was wrong."
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