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Fedora KDE gets approval to be upgraded to sit alongside Fedora Workstation

By Liam Dawe, Nov 8

Fedora Workstation with GNOME is the main edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, but their Fedora KDE Desktop Spin just got approval to become a lot more important.

KDE Plasma 6.3 will show when apps are killed due to out of memory (OOM)

By Liam Dawe, Nov 4

Work continues as always on the next version of the popular KDE Plasma desktop environment. My favourite desktop, and the one used for the Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

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KDE's end of year fundraiser is live

By Liam Dawe, Oct 30

If you appreciate the work from the KDE team on things like the Plasma desktop environment, maybe it's time to give them a little donation.

KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

By Liam Dawe, Oct 8

The KDE team have today released the Plasma 6.2 desktop environment bringing with it a "friendlier, more accessible and smarter environment".

KDE Plasma 6.2 Beta released and Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13

Time for a little testing over the weekend, as the KDE team have released Plasma 6.2 Beta along with updated Plasma Wayland Protocols.

KDE Slimbook VI announced with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

By Liam Dawe, Sep 9

Slimbook have announced their latest KDE Slimbook VI, with it being shown off during the KDE Akademy 2024 event taking place in Würzburg, Germany.

KDE Plasma 6.2 adding a pop-up for donations, plus they want to make a next-generation KDE OS

By nwildner, Aug 29

A recent change was proposed last month to implement an on-by-default KDED (KDE Daemon) module that will gently ask you to donate to KDE as a pop-up on your notification system inside the KDE Plasma desktop, planned for version 6.2.

Plasma 6.1 released with Explicit Sync, Triple Buffering for Wayland and much more

By Liam Dawe, Jun 18

KDE Plasma 6.1 has been released today bringing with it plenty of exciting new features, some big and some small but there's plenty to enjoy.

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

By Liam Dawe, May 24

Time for testing, especially for those of you with an NVIDIA GPU as the KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta is now live with some new features.

KDE Plasma 6.1 will be able to sync keyboard RGB to your chosen accent colour

By Liam Dawe, Apr 8

More work is ongoing for the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.1 release, and there's some fun stuff being added like the ability to sync your keyboard RGB lighting up to your Plasma accent colouring.

KDE Plasma app Ark gets support for self-extracting .exe archive files

By Liam Dawe, Mar 26

In another of their regular update blog posts, KDE's Nate Graham has highlighted some recent new KDE Plasma features coming soon to the desktop.

3rd party KDE Plasma Global Themes and Widgets can lead to data loss

By Liam Dawe, Mar 21

Uh oh. Seems there's been an issue lately with Global Themes for KDE, which has ended up causing a total wipe of data.

Plasma 6 lands in Arch Linux, KDE neon teething issues and Plasma 6.1 heating up

By Liam Dawe, Mar 7

The dust is starting to settle now the huge KDE Plasma 6 release is out in the wild, with it beginning to land for more distributions but there's been some issues.

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

By Liam Dawe, Feb 28

The KDE team announced "MegaRelease 6", a big upgrade that includes Plasma 6, Frameworks 6 and Gear 24.02 with tons of improvements to this popular desktop environment that's used on the Steam Deck for Desktop Mode.

Slimbook reveal the AMD powered Excalibur laptop and KDE Plasma 6 Slimbook

By Liam Dawe, Feb 22

For all of you who keep asking for more AMD powered laptops, Slimbook have delivered with the brand new Excalibur which also has a KDE Slimbook counterpart.

KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal

By Liam Dawe, Jan 3

The KDE team are currently running a funding campaign to help bring in more monies to support Plasma desktop development, and thankfully well ahead of the Plasma 6 release they've managed to hit the initial goal.

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2023

Getting exciting now! We're closing in on the final release of KDE Plasma 6.0 with a second Beta now available for testing to ensure it's ready for your Linux desktops and eventually Steam Deck too.

HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 seems to be shaping up nicely

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2023

While it's far from finished, and still needs some manual effort to get properly working, HDR support for KDE Plasma 6 has made great progress.

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

By Liam Dawe, Dec 1, 2023

The KDE team continue sprinting towards to finish line of the Plasma 6 release next year, with a Beta release now available for the popular Linux desktop environment which is also used on Steam Deck.