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The hunt for a perfect laptop continues

https://pointieststick.com/2025/07/13/the-hunt-for-a-perfect-laptop-continues/

Published: July 14, 2025 00:33

This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and I suspect it won’t be the last. I limit myself to a single computer for…

A slight UX change in Plasma 6.4.1

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/25/a-slight-ux-change-in-plasma-6-4-1/

Published: June 25, 2025 14:19

Those of you upgrading to Plasma 6.4.1 (released yesterday) may notice a more substantive change than the type we typically make in bug-fix releases: The “highlight window” effect for Task Manager thumbnails is now off by default. This is the effect that…

About Plasma’s X11 session

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/

Published: June 21, 2025 15:58

X11 is in the news again, so I thought it would make sense to be clear about the Plasma team’s plans for X11 support going forward. Current status: Plasma’s X11 session continues to be maintained. Specifically, that means: This is actually not too bad;…

Interview on FLOSS Weekly

https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/05/interview-on-floss-weekly/

Published: June 5, 2025 18:38

I was recently interviewed by Jonathan Bennett of the FLOSS Weekly show! If you aren’t totally sick of my ugly mug yet, you can hear me talk about some of my favorite topics: KDE on hardware, onboarding people to Plasma, the importance of preserving…

SteamOS destroys Windows

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/

Published: May 28, 2025 00:57

With the release of the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld, we’ve now got a real apples-to-apples comparison of how Windows 11 fares against Linux (specifically, SteamOS with KDE Plasma) on the same 1st-party supported OEM hardware in a gaming context. And…

Notes from the Graz Plasma sprint

https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/01/notes-from-the-graz-plasma-sprint/

Published: May 1, 2025 16:26

A few days ago I returned home from a wonderful Plasma sprint in Graz, Austria. Between COVID-19 and there being no Plasma sprint last year in favor of the Goals mega-sprint, this was actually only my my third in-person Plasma sprint! So I was very excited…

Interview about Techpaladin and life

https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/11/interview-about-techpaladin-and-life/

Published: April 12, 2025 04:53

It looks like Brodie Robertson hasn’t gotten sick of me yet, because we sat down again recently, this time on the subject of Techpaladin! We go over a lot of stuff I wrote in the announcement blog post last month, plus more detail and other topics too.…

Tools that Just Work™ …until they don’t

https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/06/tools-that-just-work-until-they-dont/

Published: April 6, 2025 14:41

As a former Apple guy, it pains me a bit to say this, but I’m coming to believe that the whole “It Just Works” thing is a temporary illusion. Oh, it can be achieved! But the real trick lies in keeping it. This came to mind while I was watching a video…

If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, it’s my fault

https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/02/if-your-notifications-look-kind-of-stupid-in-plasma-6-3-4-its-my-fault/

Published: April 2, 2025 21:51

This is for everyone upgrading to Plasma 6.3.4, which was released yesterday. I suspect that some of you will notice something slightly wrong with notifications; the top padding is off, causing text to look not vertically centered most of the time. This is…

2025 15-Minute Bug Initiative update

https://pointieststick.com/2025/03/25/2025-15-minute-bug-initiative-update/

Published: March 26, 2025 04:30

It’s been several years since I announced Plasma’s 15-minute bug initiative, and you can see the weekly numbers in every week’s “This Week in Plasma” post. Today I thought I’d share a high-level recap of where we’re at as of the first quarter of 2025. In…