Egregoros

Signal feed

API Docs
Timeline

Post

Remote status

Context

5
KDE

KDE

@kde@floss.social remote
Open link

"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/

#KDEAt30 #desktop #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

KDE

KDE

@kde@floss.social remote
Open link

@feld @gianmarcogg03

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.

Replying to @kde@floss.social

Replies

3
Replying to @kde@floss.social
feld

feld

@feld@friedcheese.us remote
Open link
@kde @gianmarcogg03 you're missing the point. Let me set the stage.

The Modern Linux Desktop Experience^TM:

You have a corporate Linux laptop. You have no local root access. You have no local accounts. You can't boot into single user mode; you can't boot from a rescue disk due to Secure Boot.

It has an automatic VPN back to corporate HQ. You must login with a directory account (LDAP/AD), and it has been a long weekend/vacation and your local credentials cache has expired.

You go to Starbucks and get a coffee, sit down and open your laptop.

But you can't login.

You need to be on a network, but you can't configure the WiFi from the Login Manager.

This is the fake desktop experience. You don't have a desktop, you have a brick. It is completely useless in a very normal scenario -- the exact scenario the EU wants to tackle so businesses can get off Windows.

The Plasma Login Manager is the beginning of solving this type of problem. But making a hard dependency on systemd is stupid.
Replying to @feld@friedcheese.us
Replying to @Bro666@social.tchncs.de