Recently tried Plasma 6 for a while on a fresh openSUSE install (with Nvidia drivers) but the visual bugs and omnipresent lag annoyed me so much that I switched to XFCE, which still runs fantastically.<p>Plasma 6 also had some weird issues rendering Steam, in particular - often the window would show with the content completely corrupted (as in, a random mess of static and colors). Haven't had that issue under XFCE so far.<p>I have a decent desktop (Nvidia 3090, AMD 2700x, 64 GB DDR4, 2 TB NVMe) and I try Plasma every few years because I always hear positive things but my experience this time was the same as every time before:<p>1) It was laggy, firefox, obsidian, and the file explorer consistently take 20 - 30 seconds to start. Steam takes 1 - 2 minutes to start and lags the whole time.<p>2) It was buggy:<p><pre><code> - adding and moving panels is inconsistent
- steam and other applications often fail to render properly
- the themes in the theme browser often don't work at all, or have major visual issues
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3) It doesn't respect my choices - after installing firefox and signing into my sync account, the plasma desktop added a firefox-plasma integration extension without any interaction from me, which then got synced to my other devices.<p>----<p>I'll probably try it again in a few years if nothing better comes along but I was really disappointed. The only issue I have with XFCE is that screen-locking doesn't work right now and I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to resolve that.