Well? What are your thoughts?

What is already installed on the work laptop? VNC? RDP? SSH? Anything?

Meanwhile, in Plasma:

Is it not possible to build that functionality into C/++ compilers?

Not just Debian but ditch Gnome too. KDE really pulled me in. So much about it just makes sense that I’m mad I didn’t take it seriously sooner.

Security patches do the opposite of break stuff

Could you explain the “no need to review” part? I do keep hearing good things about Rust.

I compiled my own drivers

It just feels nice! Nice and fresh.

Um. Can’t users already install anything published on flathub?

Fedora is considering switching to Plasma by default.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Change-KDE-Default-Prop

Many big maintainers are working hard to make the experience better for the average user. Things are getting better.

I’ve been a Gnome fanboy for years, after initially disliking the shift between 2 and 3.
I dipped into Plasma when 6.0 came out and I’m mad that I didn’t try sooner.

It’s the exact opposite of your experience, about Gnome not having scroll wheel speed adjustment. “Wait, other DEs had figured this out? For how long??”
There was so much I’d just put up with, thinking that if Gnome hadn’t figured it out, nobody had.

KDE is something I can set up on friends’ computers and walk away, confident that it wouldn’t give them any trouble.

It worked! But the menus are bugging out in the game itself so I’ll need to tinker some more I guess.

Ooh, thank you. I’ll try that tonight.

I admire your optimism but some governments are still using floppy disks.

You need a custom kernel, or a kernel module plus DKMS and kernel headers for your current kernel.
You also need the package that handles whatever filesystem they use for their containers.
Then, you need to be running it on Wayland or else it doesn’t work.
The part that I’m stuck on is running games, which gives an error about not being able to find libmain.so, which might be an architecture mismatch problem. Maybe I can virtualize that part? But at that point I might as well just buy a phone.

Yeah, it can’t run stuff compiled for ARM, right?
I hit a speed bump and I haven’t had time to fully investigate but I too would like to run games.

Okay now please ELI1

That’s possible. I went very many years without even hearing about that, and I found KDE Connect and had it up and fully operational on day one.

That’s good to hear!
I just tried Byobu in Konsole on Plasma 6, and it did not go well, so I can definitely see why your impression wouldn’t be great.
I’ve not watched their videos, and originally found it really easy to work through the keyboard shortcuts, but some combination of KDE and Konsole just eats up all the key combinations. If this was my first experience, I would have bounced off immediately.