blog post on Plasma 5 quality

[Hernán Ramírez]

In my case, Plasma 5.2 in Kubuntu 15.04 was very unstable, something like a
5/10 I later used their Netinstall ISO with a PPA to get Plasma 5.3 and the
user experience improved a lot, i would rate it 7/10.

Later, knowing Fedora used the same Plasma versión, but with more updated
software, i installed F22 and with Plasma 5.4 everything worked pretty
good. I would say 8.5/10.

My experience has been actually so good, that i changed to Fedora KDE as my
main distro.

I dont understand the people commenting about KDE 4.x vs Plasma 5.

The KDE community prepared the KDE 4.12 as a Long Term Support for the
people commenting about the unstable situation  of Plasma 5.x, for them
Kubuntu 14.04 and Debian 8 KDE are the best choices.

And the unstable situation  of Plasma 5 in a distro focused in the end user
such as Kubuntu 15.04 and 15.10, those are like "incremental development
stages", the complains about Plasma 5 not ready for the end user would be
100% valid  in Kubuntu 16.04.

And about OpenSUSE Leap chosing Plasma 5.4, i think that was too early
since their focus now is being stable.

Hernán
El oct. 19, 2015 7:58 AM, "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox at bzb.us> escribió:

> I choked on my coffee when I read:
> "One of the most severe issues we hit with Plasma 5 is an issue with the
> Intel graphics drivers.  I think that this problem is the reason why people
> complain about instability of Plasma.  The only reason."  I use AMD
> Radeon... others use Nvidia... they are reporting plasma freezes.  I've had
> an issue since May, provided numerous traces... it is still unresolved.
> Crickets...
> It is quite a coincidence that all three major drivers, Intel, Nvidia and
> AMD have issues with Plasma - at the same time.  The attitude seems to be
> let's make whatever changes we want in a vacuum and when things go south
> blame Qt, blame Intel (without ever acknowledging the issues with Nvidia
> and AMD), blame Kwin.  As I have noted many times, I only have problems
> with Plasma5... not with Gnome, Plasma4, LXQt.
>
> I completely understand that these issues will be uncovered because more
> people are using Plasma5 now, and I'm not criticizing the Fedora KDE team
> here or the decision to move to Plasma5 - but this blog post from the
> Plasma5 team saying they are "shocked, shocked" people are having issues
> and complaining about Plasma5 is a bit rich.
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
>> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2015/10/some-thoughts-on-the-quality-of-plasma-5/
>>
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