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Wednesday, May 13th 2026 KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes NVIDIA Performance Regressions and Fixes Many Bugs by Cpt.Jank Wednesday, 05:06 Discuss 1 Comment In preparation for the release of the upcoming release of KDE 6.7, KDE 6.6.5 has officially launched, bringing with it some fixes for performance regress… …
… The biggest changes come by way of the addition of Gnome 50 on Fedora Workstation and KDE Plasma 6.6 on Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 44 . …
Thursday, May 14th 2026 KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Introduces Plasma Bigscreen Mode for HTPCs by Cpt.Jank May 14th, 2026 22:09 Discuss 8 Comments The KDE Plasma Linux desktop environment is already a feature-rich desktop for both productivity and gaming, but the KDE development team has been hard at work … …
Wednesday, June 17th 2026 KDE Plasma 6.7 Launch: More Performance, Features, and UI Polish by Cpt.Jank Today, 01:34 Discuss 0 Comments Just on time, following the recent beta launch , which saw the addition of the new KDE Plasma Bigscreen view, KDE Plasma 6.7 has officially launched for public down… …
… Source: KDE Blog 1 Comment on KDE Plasma 6.8 Gets Performance and UI Updates Ahead of September Beta 1 Might convince me to switch to it from GNOME. Slow improvements I mean. I like GNOME more mainly because of how it does menus and stuff. And KDE has always felt a bit bland to me.
… Gnome came out 7% ahead of KDE Plasma and 18% ahead of Xfce in GravityMark, while 3DMark saw Gnome outperform KDE Plasma by 9% and Xfce by a whopping 86%. …
… Other notable changes and updates to Bazzite 44 include an update to the KDE Plasma Login Manager for KDE versions, a new version of the Bazaar app store, improved image security for ISOs, built-in support for Elgato 4K capture cards, and the removal of QEMU and ROCM, Bazzite 44 also includes the l… …
… On the desktop side, KDE gets updated to Plasma 6.6.4 with KDE Frameworks 6.25 and KDE Gear 26.04, while GNOME is at version 50.1 across Shell, Mutter, and core components. …
… If you're not familiar with Linux, this is exactly how most Linux desktop environments, like KDE Plasma and Gnome, work, except they generally use the System or Windows key as a modifier. …
… SteamOS 3.8 updates both the Arch Linux base and the KDE Plasma desktop mode to KDE 6.4.3 and switches to the Wayland display protocol by default. …