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Tried #KDE #Plasma5 for a week or so. Went back to #Fluxbox. KDE didn't do anything super special that I needed, and the inconveniences were not worth it. With the huge exception of KDE's lack of tabbed windows, it was little things, mostly.

For example, the weather widget wouldn't display the current temp. The Window List widget can't seem to sort by desktop or even by window name - I have 20 windows open on 8 desktops. Finding one manually was not ideal.

Back home to Fluxbox.

Upgrading my arch-linux-based #EndeavourOS install on the backup notebook... Haven't used it for awhile on it, but always used my go to #GhostBSD with #Plasma5 on this machine.

Pulling a lot of updates, including #Plasma 6.1.1. Hopefully it fixes some of the regressions I experienced after the transition from plasma5 to #plasma6 on it.
Will try #wayland on it again, but from my previous experiences I expect it still to be subpar on this machine, but I'm open for surprises.
Still not sure about the direction plasma 6 is currently heading qualitywise... 🤷‍♀️

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@allanchain

This is the first time I have had any kind of issue, so I will definitely give credit for that.

Perhaps that deepens the disappointment, Plasma has been solid for me for the past 5 years.

I am thinking my best option at this point is to "downgrade" by going back to #Kubuntu, which is still on #Plasma5 and wait and see how things play out for 6 down the road.

Whilst Plasma 5.27.1 is nice in many respects, tiresomely it has now re-broken my Conkies' semi-transparency. Sigh.

KDE4 was good friends with Conky. Plasma5, for all its many otherwise fab aspects, has had a very tense relationship with Conky, & some dot-versions have been most unfriendly.