8 engineers on Hacker News describe using KDE Plasma first-hand: 3 endorse it, 1 regret it, 3 are mixed.
“I'm using KDE on the gaming box I recently transitioned away from Windows”
mixed · personal · cosmic_cheese · 2026-10-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE Plasma 6 is genuinely getting better continuously over time and remains one of the things I am excited to update.”
endorse · personal · jchw · 2026-10-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“reset KDE/Plasma to a configuration that didn't crash Plasma randomly or kernel panic when resuming from sleep”
regret · personal · throwup238 · 2024-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“after I switched to KDE Plasma 6 with Wayland... I've noted a significant improvement in responsiveness and snappiness”
endorse · personal · kombine · 2024-11-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Nvidia+Wayland+KDE on my workstation for over a year now and while there are problems, it's certainly useable.”
mixed · personal · 1 yr · bogwog · 2023-12-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using Plasma on NixOS... It's fine although I kinda miss gedit and the GNOME terminal emulator.”
mixed · personal · jbboehr · 2020-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“KDE Plasma is generally really solid in my opinion. I installed kubuntu-desktop on my xubuntu install yesterday”
endorse · personal · mort96 · 2018-07-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Works on my KDE4 (over Ubuntu) .. only been using KDE since about 98/99 and never knew about this.”
neutral · personal · 13 yr · pbhjpbhj · 2011-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?