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The final release of the GNOME 45 desktop environment is expected on September 20th, 2023.

Not long to go now. :)

I always look forward to new Gnome releases, and I still switch back and forth between Plasma and Gnome all the time...

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[–] nicman24@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well kde4 was also a trash fire

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

And it look until like 5.14/5.15/5.16 for Plasma 5 to finally be stable enough IMO.

The memes of Plasma being unstable and buggy were very real.

Comparing the first Plasma 5 release to 5.27 would be night and day, it went from being straight up unusable trash to a competent, powerful, mostly stable experience. Such a massive improvement.

I'm glad they've postponed Plasma 6 again so they can get things right. Plasma being buggy for so long is what caused Gnome to supplant them in the first place, they're right to try to shake that image.

[–] nicman24@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

i jumped ship around i wanna say 5.8? i was tired of gnome at that time.