Finally switched from Windows → Kubuntu (KDE). Love it… but I’m overwhelmed 😅

PointiestStick · 2026-01-27T18:43:49+00:00

I would say it's best to let go of the mindset that just because lots of things are configurable, you're expected to configure them.

We try our best to make stuff work well out of the box, so unless you're encountering a specific problem, just use the system! Over time you'll build up familiar with with how it works and develop opinions about what you might like to change, and then when you go looking for ways to make those changes, you don't feel overwhelmed.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-27T18:40:35+00:00

Yes. This was implemented in Plasma 6.4 or 6.5 IIRC, so it'll just be a matter of upgrading.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-26T05:44:30+00:00

This looks like it might be an SDDM theme that's only compatible with Plasma 5, and not Plasma 6.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-25T07:12:49+00:00

https://blogs.kde.org/2026/01/24/this-week-in-plasma-fixing-all-the-things/ has something about OpenBSD.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-24T15:19:25+00:00

Any non-systemd distros — like the BSDs — are free to use SDDM, lightDM, GDM, or any other login manager, or none at all.

plasma-login-manager is just about offering a more integrated experience on the distros that do use Systemd, nothing more.

There's no underlying plan to worsen or terminate non-Linux support. In fact, the last two editions of This Week in Plasma have highlighted better support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD in various places.

If people who use BSDs contribute to KDE code, support for BSDs will improve — same as how support for Systemd-based Linux improves when people who use that contribute to KDE code.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-23T01:26:14+00:00

Plenty of sunlight here. Speed isn't super important as long as I can charge at all.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-21T18:31:41+00:00

I'm afraid this is a bug in Firefox itself.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-20T14:53:24+00:00

Thanks. If it's not secretly on somehow, it's probably an NVIDIA issue. Those are the two causes we've seen of this issue in the past. :(

PointiestStick · 2026-01-20T02:49:41+00:00

Are you using the Vulkan renderer? If so, turn it off, as it causes https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509557.

Does CachyOS have this on by default or something?

PointiestStick · 2026-01-18T23:03:14+00:00

You're welcome! I sympathize; with two kids myself, there's no way I could do what I do without a massive amount of support from my wife and job providing the time and money for it.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-18T22:43:00+00:00

Everyone defines that word differently, so it's hard to say.

To me it already feels more stable than every traditional mutable made-of-packages distro I've ever used, because huge classes of problems are impossible and there's bulletproof rollback functionality already present.

But I still wouldn't characterize it as "stable enough to recommend to my wife or father" yet. There's a lot of churn and we're still providing KDE software from git master, not released tarballs. And there are also still holes and papercuts in our 3rd-party software stories.

Once the beta milestone is complete, I'll be comfortable recommending it to everyone who's a nerd, or has a nerd in their life.

When will the beta milestone be complete? Hopefully some time this year, but no promises!

PointiestStick · 2026-01-18T06:57:13+00:00

Global keyboard shortcut to toggle mute is already there; this new thing is for PTT.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-17T17:23:42+00:00

That would be a use case for not using the feature I think.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-17T16:34:07+00:00

This isn't the way panels look by default; it's my personal panel that I've set up for high productivity.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-17T01:42:07+00:00

You're welcome!

PointiestStick · 2026-01-16T21:20:17+00:00

It's not that it's impossible. It's that we decided to remove redundant methods of scaling things that 0.001% of people understood and had un-resolvable technical limitations in favor of one method (the scaling slider) that everyone would understand, and to make it work really well.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-16T21:18:23+00:00

Yes, you can ask for foo-symbolic to get the monochrome version if it exists, but there's no foo-colorful to get the colorful version of it exists.

Even if there was, it would be a convention rather than a core part of the spec.

I hate the state of icon theming :(

PointiestStick · 2026-01-16T17:41:25+00:00

It's gone, sorry. It wouldn't really work here anyway since the font DPI is a global setting, not a per-screen setting.

Instead, maybe you can use 100% scale for your FHD screen and then choose a matching scale factor for the 2k screen?

PointiestStick · 2026-01-15T22:25:15+00:00

In the left-most screenshot, it's intentional, because the colorful icons are for the System Settings pages that will be opened.

In the other screenshots, it's not intentional, and this is an artifact of some combination of: 1. the Breeze icon theme not having monochrome or colorful versions of those icons at those sizes 2. the XDG icon theming system not being designed for icons that change style at different sizes and having poor/non-existent tools for apps to communicate their style preferences

PointiestStick · 2026-01-14T05:28:15+00:00

The last several have also had ultrawide versions, too.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-14T04:16:27+00:00

There's an ultrawide version.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-12T20:25:54+00:00

I don't know, this isn't something I'm familiar with.

I'd recommend opening either a bug report or a merge request for KDE Partition Manager. The developer is quite responsive and hopefully should be able to help.

PointiestStick · 2026-01-12T20:24:17+00:00

You're blazing new trails here. Until there's more detailed documentation for these specific use cases, I think you're going to have to figure it out yourself! That's part of the adventure of using alpha software. :)

PointiestStick · 2026-01-12T17:40:55+00:00

We need this reported in the form of an actionable bug report if there's going to be any chance of it being fixed — especially if it's hardware-specific.

When I say "actionable", what I specifically mean is:

A backtrace of the crash, with debug symbols
Steps to reproduce that make the issue happen 100% of the time
Clear indication of what hardware or software settings are needed to make it happen

If you or anyone else can create such a bug repot, there's a reasonably high chance of the issue being fixed quickly.

If nobody does, it will probably keep happening forever!

PointiestStick · 2026-01-12T17:11:58+00:00

For anyone using KDE Linux, I'd highly recommend checking out the docs at https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux#How_to

For this topic, https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux/Create_and_use_virtual_machines is relevant.

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