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Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:37:01 +0000

A developer has submitted a draft to the KDE team for KWin to hook up a full Plasma VR mode and it looks pretty awesome.

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KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature

Liam Dawe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:06:40 +0000

KDE Plasma is set to gain even more useful features with the upcoming Plasma 6.7 release, one especially good for online gaming.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller

Liam Dawe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 09:24:45 +0000

Finally! One of the most annoying issues is your system going to sleep while gaming with a controller, and KDE Plasma 6.6 will solve it.

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KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:11:58 +0000

Absolutely smashing their goals, the KDE team have managed to have a huge success for the 2025 fundraiser that's currently ongoing.

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KDE Connect security advisory released due to possible authentication bypass

Liam Dawe — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:31:05 +0000

KDE Connect is a popular cross-platform app that allows you to send files across devices and more - with a security advisory being sent out due to a woops.

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KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:15:25 +0000

It was only a matter of time but it's nearly upon us - KDE Plasma with version 6.8 will be entirely dropping the X11 session to go full Wayland.

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Slimbook launch the KDE Slimbook VII with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 / Radeon 880M

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 12:30:34 +0000

In the market for a new powerful laptop ready for the holiday season? Perhaps give a look to the new KDE Slimbook VII.

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Hello from Fedora KDE

Liam Dawe — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:12:26 +0000

I recently did a bit of a major woops, and so I decided perhaps it is once again time to Linux distro hop and have settled on Fedora KDE.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:56:39 +0000

The work never ends to improve the KDE Plasma desktop environment for Linux, and with Plasma 6.6 a fun new feature is coming to tweak virtual desktops.

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KDE Plasma 6.5 is out now with a number of highly-requested features

Liam Dawe — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:17:19 +0000

The next big KDE Plasma release is here with Plasma 6.5 delivering a number of major new features, as the KDE team begin to show a lot more confidence.

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KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

Liam Dawe — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 11:18:30 +0000

KDE, the free software community that develops the likes of the KDE Plasma desktop, has turned 29 years old and they're doing a fresh fund-raiser.

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KDE officially release the first alpha of KDE Linux their new reference implementation OS

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 10:21:32 +0000

The KDE team have been busy, as they're making their own full Linux distro with KDE Linux being a reference implementation OS for Plasma and KDE apps.

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KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing

Liam Dawe — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 12:10:06 +0000

The next release of KDE Plasma is due in October and the developers have been working non-stop on some great new features for the popular desktop.

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KDE devs disable potentially seizure inducing Plasma effect as accessibility work continues

Liam Dawe — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 10:04:50 +0000

The KDE developers are working towards making the Plasma desktop environment more accessible, with an essential tweak to the defaults.

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KDE Plasma will continue having an X11 session, as Kubuntu switches to Wayland by default

Liam Dawe — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:58:32 +0000

KDE developers confirm Plasma will continue having a maintained X11 session, and now we know Kubuntu will be Wayland by default.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:52:44 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.4 has arrived bringing lots of modern enhancements to my favourite Linux desktop environment, and what's used on SteamOS / Steam Deck Desktop Mode.

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KDE Plasma drops LTS releases but will do extra bug fix releases, along with a new Steam-like hardware survey

Liam Dawe — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:11:54 +0000

KDE developer Nate Graham has written up a blog post detailing some planned changes coming to the KDE Plasma desktop, including doing away with the LTS (Long-Term Support) releases and instead extend the supported time for each release.

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KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs

Liam Dawe — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:21:33 +0000

Work on the KDE Plasma desktop sounds like it continues to go very well, with some really important bug fixes arriving to make the experience a lot nicer. My favourite Linux desktop environment and what powers the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck.

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Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client

Liam Dawe — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 09:38:33 +0000

Here's one I missed from earlier this week. KDE developer Nate Graham announced the formation of an open source consultancy company called Techpaladin Software, with their first client being Valve to continue improving the Steam Deck desktop mode which uses KDE Plasma.

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KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:33:51 +0000

KDE Plasma 6.3 has been released and it's another beautiful sounding release! Filled with new features and fixes for my favourite Linux desktop environment. Plasma is also used on the Steam Deck for the Desktop Mode.

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KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling

Liam Dawe — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:58:53 +0000

The KDE team continuing building up the next version of the popular KDE Plasma desktop environment, with Plasma 6.3.0 getting some great additions.

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The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025

Liam Dawe — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:40:00 +0000

In a few previous years, I decided to do a fresh take each time on what the best Linux distribution was for gaming - so I'm back for a 2025 edition of the article that will cause you to tell me how wrong and terrible I am.

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KDE's 2024 fundraiser hits the goal - clearly their donation pop-up works

Liam Dawe — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:04:57 +0000

Some good news coming out from camp KDE, with their yearly fundraiser ongoing and they've managed to smash their original goal.

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

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 13:05:51 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:19:28 +0000

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

Liam Dawe — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:46:41 +0000

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.

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KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

Liam Dawe — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:08:41 +0000

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

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

Liam Dawe — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 15:05:39 +0000

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

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KDE Slimbook VI announced with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

Liam Dawe — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 11:40:32 +0000

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

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

nwildner — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 18:12:59 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:47:47 +0000

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.

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KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 May 2024 18:46:37 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 08:34:46 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:46:37 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:17:08 +0000

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

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

Liam Dawe — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:45:53 +0000

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.

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The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

Liam Dawe — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:56:15 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 12:05:24 +0000

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.

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KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal

Liam Dawe — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:39:17 +0000

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.

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KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:29:07 +0000

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.

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

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:44:33 +0000

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.

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KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

Liam Dawe — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 14:04:20 +0000

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.

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Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default

Liam Dawe — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 13:23:35 +0000

As the KDE team continue working full steam ahead towards Plasma 6, they're now down to a single showstopping bug for having Wayland by default.

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KDE Plasma 6 goes Wayland by default, initial HDR gaming support

Liam Dawe — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:38:16 +0000

In another update on the progress of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment release, there's some fun details from Nate Graham.

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KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

Liam Dawe — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:42:08 +0000

Nearly 10 years after KDE Plasma 5.0, the launch of KDE Plasma 6.0 is approaching and a first "Megarelease - Alpha" is out now for testing.

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KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming

Liam Dawe — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 11:47:48 +0000

While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.

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KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024

Liam Dawe — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:33:43 +0000

The KDE team are hard at work to make the next major release of the KDE Plasma desktop environment, my current favourite desktop and the one used on the Steam Deck. Now, we actually have something of a proper roadmap to Plasma 6.0.

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Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:03:00 +0000

KDE developer Nate Graham has two quite interesting updates in regards to the upcoming Plasma 6 desktop release, including some fun optimizations landing.

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KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 11:30:55 +0000

They've finally set a date! The big release of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop is now set to launch in February 2024.

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KDE Plasma 6 gets double-click to open by default and other improvements

Liam Dawe — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 10:35:58 +0000

Something that has proven to be quite divisive in the Linux community for KDE Plasma users is single or double-click to open something, as Plasma 6 will default to double-click.

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GamingOnLinux Article RSS For: KDE

Draft code submitted to KDE Plasma turns it into a full VR desktop

KDE Plasma 6.7 will have a global push-to-talk feature

KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller

KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success

KDE Connect security advisory released due to possible authentication bypass

KDE Plasma going all-in on Wayland and will drop the X11 session completely

Slimbook launch the KDE Slimbook VII with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 / Radeon 880M

Hello from Fedora KDE

KDE Plasma 6.6 to get a great new feature - limit virtual desktops to the primary screen

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out now with a number of highly-requested features

KDE's 29th anniversary is here and they need your funding

KDE officially release the first alpha of KDE Linux their new reference implementation OS

KDE Plasma 6.5 gains an OEM ready system setup tool and KDE Linux is progressing

KDE devs disable potentially seizure inducing Plasma effect as accessibility work continues

KDE Plasma will continue having an X11 session, as Kubuntu switches to Wayland by default

KDE Plasma 6.4 brings improvements for accessibility, colour rendering, tablet support and more

KDE Plasma drops LTS releases but will do extra bug fix releases, along with a new Steam-like hardware survey

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs

Former Blue Systems devs form Techpaladin Software to work on KDE with Valve as their first client

KDE Plasma 6.3 is out now with big fractional scaling improvements, drawing tablet upgrades and more

KDE Plasma 6.3 will have much better fractional scaling

The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025

KDE's 2024 fundraiser hits the goal - clearly their donation pop-up works

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

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

KDE's end of year fundraiser is live

KDE Plasma 6.2 released with improved Wayland colour management

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

KDE Slimbook VI announced with an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS

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

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

KDE Plasma 6.1 Beta released with Wayland Explicit Sync support

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

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

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

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

The future has arrived - KDE Plasma 6 desktop released

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

KDE Plasma 6 hits initial funding goal

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 2 is available for testing

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

KDE Plasma 6 - Beta 1 released

Plasma 6 full steam ahead with only one showstopper left for Wayland by default

KDE Plasma 6 goes Wayland by default, initial HDR gaming support

KDE Plasma 6 gets a first Alpha release

KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming

KDE Plasma 6.0 now scheduled for release 28th February 2024

Plasma 6 optimized for Wayland gaming, plus compositor crash recovery

KDE Plasma 6 to launch in February 2024

KDE Plasma 6 gets double-click to open by default and other improvements

Slimbook launch the KDE Slimbook VII with AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 / Radeon 880M