This week was all about the quality of life features! As we close in on Plasma 6.2 (the soft feature freeze is in four days, eek!), some great work that’s been in progress for a long time got…
  • Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world
    76·
    3 months ago

    I’m really excited about how great KDE has become in recent years. It was getting scary back when KDE4 had lots of problems and gnome3 was devoid of all functionality. Nowadays KDE makes the Linux desktop truly a pleasure to use.

      • burrito@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        3 months ago

        I loved the glorious 3.5.x days. What a fantastic DE it was then. I compiled 3.5.0 from source when it was released because it was going to take the Fedora guys too long to package.

  • PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
    33·
    3 months ago

    I’ve wanted this for a while; when I’m done with my computer, I don’t mind it staying on a bit longer to do this, rather than when I next turn it on when I (presumably) want to do something. Great add!

    • lengau@midwest.social
      101·
      3 months ago

      You know what else would be awesome? “Update, reboot, and (just this once) automatically login”

      It would be super useful for when I’m alone at home working but want to do updates over my lunch break.

      • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        15·
        3 months ago

        I think an issue is, this sets up your computer to have a way to bypass putting your password in on boot. If you don’t care about security too much and don’t have things like secure boot and encryption, then that’s bypassable anyways… But otherwise, I’d be concerned about introducing systems that specifically bypass security.

        • HexKay [none/use any]@hexbear.net
          4·
          3 months ago

          As long as you have to put in your password when you enable this I feel like it’s fine. There’s plenty of times, especially on Linux, where the user has to bypass security limitations to do this (sudo being the most obvious example)

          • KubeRoot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            4·
            3 months ago

            The issue is, when doing sudo, you have to put in the password when doing sudo. In this case, you put in your password, some flag is set, the computer does a full reset, and then after it reads the flag and decides to bypass the password system. That sounds like just a step away of figuring out how to set this flag without a password to bypass logging in.

    • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
      5·
      3 months ago

      I wonder how that will play together with Distros like OpenSUSE Tumbleweed where you basically do a whole OS upgrade and are not supposed to do “just” updates.

      I hope we can easily supply our own script to run.

      • brian@programming.dev
        2·
        3 months ago

        it’s tied to packagekit, so tumbleweed should work ootb. opensuse’s immutable distro is less likely to be possible though, as well as anything else like that

    • umbrella
      4·
      3 months ago

      same here! kde is one of the reasons im feeling like hopping. they really polished it a lot in areas where it was needed.

      i just need a little free time, any day now.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lol
      7·
      3 months ago

      I used GNOME for years because people say it’s “easier”, but it’s not “easier” it’s just simpler. I almost never need to go to the command line with KDE whereas with GNOME it was a weekly occurrence. I am frankly embarrassed I wrote off KDE for so long.