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With this release they've had a nice focus on accessibility, something that various Linux desktops have been a bit lacking in. There's a new and improved on-screen keyboard, the spectacle screenshot tool can now extract text, there's a new grayscale filter in the Color Blindness Correction settings, the Zoom and Magnifier feature gained the ability to keep the pointer in the centre of the screen, there's "Slow Keys" support on Wayland and the new standardized "Reduced Motion" setting is in too.
There's also the new Plasma Setup first-run tool giving user-facing steps like making an account separate from the technical steps like partitioning. A feature that's good for all kinds of uses like companies shipping hardware with Plasma.
Plus various other bits like:
- The ability to have virtual desktops only on the primary screen.
- An optional new login manager for Plasma.
- Optional automatic screen brightness on devices with ambient light sensors.
- Optional support for using game controllers as regular input devices.
- Font installation in the Discover software center, on supported operating systems.
- Choose process priority in System Monitor.
- Standalone Web Browser and Audio Volume widgets can be pinned open.
- Support for USB access prompts and a visual refresh of other permission prompts.
- Smoother animations on high-refresh-rate screens.
See the release announcement for more.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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You can also find comments for this article on social media: Quoting: mr-victoryohh that's not good because i do use sunshine/moonlight.Quoting: PyrateCould say this about a lot of Linux projects, or just any open source project really, but Plasma is the gift that keeps on giving. No enshittification, just continuous improvements. We can't stop winning.KDE Plasma updates are the few I look up to. Back in 5.24 I was installing betas to get some features early, I haven't installed a beta in years but dammit the changelogs still have gems.
Quoting: LoftyI have stayed on X11 because of this using the admittedly great application 'onboard'I use wayland but there is a bug not affecting X11: moonlight and seemingly nothing else can disable vsync so I get higher input latency.
https://discuss.kde.org/t/1-frame-latency-on-moonlight-only-on-wayland-cannot-turn-off-vsync/40157
Quoting: mr-victoryIn the meantime, I did actually try it in a VM and it worked. I installed Aurora, then added rpmfusion using their official command for Silverblue, then rebooted and layered broadcom-wl package and rebooted again and then "wl" kernel module is actually availableQuoting: rustynailIf you can do it on normal Fedora just by installing packages (including copr repos), it is also doable on Kinoite and should be doable on Aurora.So I can just layer the package? That's it, have you done it? Afaik you cannot layer kernel modules on universal blue, they must be bundled with the system image. But I'd love to be proven wrong.
Quoting: PyrateIn theory I agree, but installing Nvidia drivers on Fedora (especially with secure boot) is poorly documented and a pain in the ass.Quoting: Purple Library GuyBut it doesn't seem to be available in any distros as user friendly as Mint. One of these days I'll give it another look.Fedora KDE is user friendly. Not having Nvidia drivers pre-installed ≠ not-user friendly. Windows comes without drivers pre-installed as well and people think that OS is user friendly. There's no harm in websearching "install nvidia drivers fedora Linux" and learning a thing or two about package management in the process. It's good practice long term.
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