@cienmilojos @mms @sotolf

For me, a lot got fixed with Wayland between #KDE #Plasma 5.27 and 6.3.

There used to be no way to hide the mouse cursor while you're typing, which is a basic feature to me. KDE added it sometime in KDE 6.

The main thing I'm missing now is there's no way to type an emoji from the command line into whatever window you're in. There's kdotool which can type text, but doesn't support unicode. I use a shell script as an emoji picker (because the one built into KDE Plasma is kinda lame, it can't type the emoji for you), and it's left just copying the emoji. But in X11 (and in sway-wayland), it can type it in for you.

There are a few other minor issues, but they're mostly minor. I'm pretty happy with the Wayland session in Plasma 6.3 now.

@spaceraser @dan @ossobuffo

Sadly agreed. #LinuxPhones are purely a hobbyist zone right now.

Desktop Linux is 95% there, though.

I'm seriously considering switching my work machine from #Debian to #AuroraLinux, which is immutable #Fedora-based with #KDE #Plasma. I'm still quite happy with Debian, but I want to try something that I can recommend to my coworker who's currently stuck on Windows 10.

The only bummer is that the only distros I can whole-heartedly recommend to beginners are either Fedora or #Ubuntu-based. I cannot wholeheartedly endorse either Fedora as an org (too closely tied to #IBM) or Ubuntu (#Canonical, where is thy soul?).

I dearly love Debian, but a 2-year release cycle is just untenable today. Software changes far too quickly. I had some (minor) things break this year because even the compilers were too old. XD

@mike

Good question. I use the same combination as you: Linux at home, Windows at work. #Plasma is more flexible about shortcuts than Windows, so, in some cases, I've changed the defaults on Plasma so that I don't have to think about it. In many cases — clipboard, basic file operations, close window, text editing keys, dialogue box controls — Plasma's shortcuts default to being the same as Windows', so there's no scope for confusion.

The thing that endlessly trips me up is the fact that Linux has a separate clipboard and text selection and Windows hasn't. I'm forever pasting the wrong thing and having to fix it.

@kev @frameworkcomputer

Si usara #Plasma ya hubiese colapsado y muerto hace mucho. Te amo #Gnome.

@MsDropbear42 Weeeeeeeeell, now i've made time to investigate what ails poor lil ol' ONT, & it seems pretty terminal [boom, tish]. The failure to finish booting occurred after i did a system update after not doing so for several months. OS was #SparkyLinux Testing / semi-rolling. Afaict, whatever caused the damage did a pretty good job:

• the #bootloader had vaporised
• the #LUKS #encryption seems to have been damaged [even booting from a Live usb stick couldn't unlock the drive, my LUKS pswd being rejected despite absolutely certainly being correct]; it accepts my LUKS password during boot, then says "Slot 0 opened", then... just sits there, evermore. Sigh.

I considered trying to repair the bootloader via a #chroot, but even if that succeeded i frankly had little appetite to then do battle with a sulky LUKS. This pc is a very old clunker, spinning rust HDDs only, merely 8 GB RAM, i7 though old model, & i'd repurposed it to be my lounge-room media pc several months ago without bothering to change anything about its extant OS... & tbh Sparky had been wearing a bit thin on me anyway for a coupla months in this role.

So i decided not to bother attempting repairs, & instead make a clean break with an alternative distro that i feel should be just about ideal for this use as a media pc, whose only function is to run a browser, & my VPN app, for my nightly movies & shows streaming. As such, i really just don't wanna be arsed with running updates on it often, & generally mollycoddling it like i do with my real pooter [#ArchLinux #KDE #Plasma]... i just want it to live happily in the darkness of my timber cabinet, asking little of me re upkeep, & just purring away.

Thus, it now has #LinuxMint #LMDE 6. Gotta hand it to ol' Clem & Co; they've done a really nice job with it.

@kta @NebulaTide @dtonlinux @mms @nixCraft

I've got Solus on my desktop at home and I'm thinking of trying #FreeBSD or something FreeBSD-based on it instead. I might have to see if #KerbalSpaceProgram will run in the Linux compatibility mode first, because it would be a bit of a bummer to lose that.

Is anyone running #KDE #Plasma 6.x on FreeBSD with the #Wayland session?