I love the plasma desktop!
January 2, 2026
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KDE has lost its way under Nate Graham
I have used KDE for years on multiple systems and watched its development closely. What used to be a stable, professional desktop has turned into Nate Graham’s personal playground. Plasma 6.5 is presented as progress, but in reality it is full of bugs, half-finished features, and endless PR talk. Discover remains unreliable, Plasma still crashes, and each week Graham publishes another self-promotion blog pretending everything is fine.
Under his so-called leadership KDE has become unstable, bloated, and disconnected from the real community. Criticism is ignored and long-time users are leaving. Plasma 5.27 was the last version that worked properly. Everything after that is regressions and empty marketing.
Even sites like Phoronix sound tired of repeating the same story. KDE has lost direction and credibility. Until the leadership changes, nothing will improve.
Stay with Plasma 5.27 or move to another desktop environment. KDE under Graham is a failure.
June 2, 2025
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Miracle of the XXIst century
INCREDIBLE software development project. Kudos to every single volunteer and user for making it happen.
March 19, 2025
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Aesthetically pleasant, but unnecessarily visually inconsistent.
This is a review of the Desktop Environment. It's constantly improving in most regards, although the introduction of the inferior portal interfaces for common functions in KDE software outside of Flatpak packages has been problematic.
Additionally, Kirigami, whilst in beta stage at best, is being used for more software without the lack of animations and context menu inconsistency being remediated first.
Despite this, KDE's software is some of the most advanced that a regular user is able to use. This is due to their sensible mantra of “Basic by default, [but] advanced when necessary.” KWrite versus Kate versus KDevelop are brilliant examples of this, as is Dolphin.
March 8, 2023
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