When I read this I noticed quite surprising information: “Around 82% of KDE Plasma users (who’ve enabled telemetry) use Wayland as of June 2025”. Actually, what telemetry is enabled? 82% is also quite big number. Could it really be true?
You can see what information, if any, is sent under System Settings → User Feedback. It’s off by default.
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Ok. But what about that 82% users of wayland? I have tried it every now and then, but have always come back to x11. I admit wayland kind of works. It’s the future we like it or not.
I’ve been using KDE Plasma with Wayland for nearly 3 years on several different distros and 3 different PCs and 2 different laptops with Nvidia, AMD and Intel. Never an issue.
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Since Wayland is the default on plasma 6 and most people don’t change the defaults, it makes sense that a large percentage of people would be using the default.
However, the actual percentage is interesting since it would only include people who opt-in to telemetry. It may not be an accurate slice of the of the total use base.
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I was thinking exactly the same. If most people use defaults they quite certainly don’t switch on telemetry. I didn’t even know it exists…
When using KDE Plasma with wayland on my old laptop (intel+nvidia) I don’t have any issue except when I play game on steam that require proton. So I need to switch to X11 for this case.
For my new pc (amd cpu+igpu) no issue at all with Wayland including gaming on steam.
edit: I’m not aware about the telemetry as well
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Well, it’s 82% of users who have telemetry on. I don’t know what percentage of all users that is. That’s all they have to go on.
Wayland on KDE has improved a LOT over just the last two years.The issues I had when Debian 12 released are gone now, as far as I can tell. Honestly can’t remember the last time I switched to the X11 session
Edit: also congrats to the dev team for fulfilling an 18 year old request this release
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Everything works lovely with wayland. Amd radeon and processor might have someyhing to do with it.
Kde is working out well.
Steam and lutris workslike a charm.
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Looking forward to this hitting the repos!
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It has yet to be reflected in my updates. 
I’m excited for 6.4
I had issues with system freeze if the monitors are turned off due to inactivity
But that seems to be fixed in 6.4
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It was released by KDE. Now it usually takes 24 hours for an Arch package maintainer to put it into the testing repository. Then it also usually sits a day or two in testing. If everything goes smoothly expect in on Thursday or Friday.
Could be delayed for another one or two days if the Arch maintainers are busy or on holidays, or there’s a huge showstopper.
So far nothing even in testing.
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I thought the tarballs were made available/distributed late last week (as I read the process, but maybe I misinterpreted it) for a release today (or maybe that is release to distros?)
The tars were created a few days earlier, but that’s still an internal KDE process and not exposed to the public. The release is made with the packages showing up on https://download.kde.org/ today.
This is where Arch pulls from too in the PKGBUILDs.
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Fedora have built the Plasma 6.4 packages (but are yet to roll them out), and Kubuntu has a PPA if you’re feeling brave - https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/beta
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It’s finally in extra-testing.
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It’s finally in extra-testing.
Yay. I sometimes get impatient about these things, but I know that is why we don’t have it yet. These things are worth waiting for.
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