It looks like quite a few new quality of life enhancements are coming later in the week (or more likely early next week).
At least based on this video…
As always, I’m excited to see new features, the gaming improvements might pull KDE way ahead of GNOME, based on how much difference it REALLY makes.
Just gotta love it. GNOME is always the DE everyone needs to beat 
Well you got to admit, GNOME’s focus is pretty narrow (esp regarding customization). Though that itself appeals to some, but not all.
But yes, KDE and GNOME are the current top players…so yep….
We don’t endorse DE on DE violence here - even if deserved. 
Didn’t you mean “Gnome is the DE that everyone beats.”?
No 
Nice KDE is the best DE!
Been checking out KDE 6.5.80 in KDE Linux, from the little I have messed around with it seems like it should be a good release once out.
Your missing drivers for your nvidia card ? llvmpipe it shows.
Running in a VM, no GPU passthrough.
I’ve just been reading https://blogs.kde.org/2025/10/18/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.5-is-nigh-and-kde-is-29-years-old-help-us-celebrate/
6.5 is looking to be a stellar release, and for the first time that I can remember, there are zero high-severity bugs in the weekly reports. That’s amazing. The polish is just shining these days.
I am hoping that in 6.5 there will be a way to disable the floating task bar. I like it snapped to the bottom of my screen but this only happens when i open an app. Not much of a problem but still. The gap between the taskbar and the screen edge kind of gets on my nerves 
Why did they even do that i have no idea.
You can do that since it was introduced. Right click → Show Panel Config → Floating.
I swear to god that wasn’t there before 
So excited for the day/night mode feature — can’t wait!
You must have missed it, since i use kde (februari) the setting is there.
Today is plasma 6.5 day ! Hopefully it won’t take long before it goes through the testing and rolling phase to us. Don’t forget to donate to kde if you like it.
Yep. Can’t wait to get it going!
EDIT: As of 13:50 UTC, Plasma 6.5 has yet to hit the Arch Extra-Testing repo.
