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KDE Enjoyed A Stellar 2024 With The Debut Of The Plasma 6 Desktop


The KDE desktop progress made over the course of 2024 was particularly stand-out thanks to the Plasma 6.0 debut near the beginning of the year and then Plasma 6.1 and 6.2 further stabilizing and polishing this open-source desktop

KDE Plasma 6.1 Performing Much Better On Older Intel Integrated Graphics With the recently released KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment, those still relying on old Intel integrated graphics should have a much more pleasant experience thanks to improvements made to the KWin compositor. KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl has written a detailed blog post for those interested in the topic. KDE developers this week have thus been very busy with last minute finishing touches to this updated desktop while also already beginning feature work on Plasma 6.2.

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