Is it slop? Feels like slop.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong.

Oh now I understand! Firefox was the blocker to finally release a generic Wayland implementation! Man sometimes I have the feeling I can't think. Thanks for your patience.

I understood it as blacklisting support for the protocol because Firefox's implementation was too buggy.

That's what I assumed too. But the linked issue talks just about Firefox.

is this new PiP mode in Plasma a generic Wayland feature

"the Wayland picture-in-picture (PiP) protocol" So yes, of course.

I know. My question was, is this new PiP mode in Plasma a generic Wayland feature, or is it about the Firefox's own PiP mode.

Firefox has a PiP mode for videos, not any generic window

Does the Wayland PiP work with any application window? Oh the linked issue https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/10175 talks about Firefox. Is this only about Firefox? I’m confused.

This might sound strange but have you run fs-trim lately? My pc was lagging a lot in normal use and games, that was because I hadn't ran an fs-trim in 3 years.

These are literally not even a month old memory sticks

Ah yes, you swapped RAM sticks and now have RAM problems but the cause has to be vibecoded KDE…🙄

After extended testing, KWin’s support for the Wayland picture-in-picture (PiP) protocol has been deemed stable enough, and turned on by default! (Vlad Zahorodnii, kwin MR #10175)

Yeeeeeeessssssssss

Edit:

In-progress downloads in Firefox that produce a nice native Plasma notification via Plasma Browser Integration can now be paused and resumed from that notification. (Simon Hürlimann, plasma-browser-integration MR #207)

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss

Please don’t tell me this. These are literally not even a month old memory sticks 😭. I’ve just built this whole pc after a power surge fucked the old one up.

I AM on a rolling release, Cachy OS, but a desktop is not immune to memory leaks. Plasma can absolutely cause memory issues. Not vetting CachyOS because I haven’t tested personally to know for a fact it’s the distro, not the DE, but DEs can absolutely cause memory issues.

When was the last time you ran https://memtest.org/ ? I’ve had several instances when what seemed like a buggy update was as a hardware issue that showed up because memory layouts changed.

This release of plasma (6.8 and 6.8.1) has been buggy for me.

dot-0 and dot-1 releases have always been on the more buggy side, simply because several bigger distributions tend to aim for dot-2 or dot-3 releases and rolling release users are the early adopters who do the bug reporting.

I’m having random freezing, issues with suspending the pc, memory issues and many others that for the first time in like 5 years

I suspect you're on a rolling release distribution and something broke in general. How would a DE cause memory issues?

Huh?!

Where? It seems eBay has dried up, and even surplus places online are gouging a bit

This release of plasma (6.8 and 6.8.1) has been buggy for me. I hope it’s not because they went hard on vibe-coding. Use AI, guys, but please not blindly. I’m having random freezing, issues with suspending the pc, memory issues and many others that for the first time in like 5 years, I’ve considered moving to gnome or something. This is how bad it has gotten.

I’m in the process of constructing several bug reports for them. They’re going to hate me. lol

Then the Framework Laptop 13 Pro might be for you, but it's quite expensive.
Though it's repairable nature and easy upgradeability (you can buy a new motherboard when you want to upgrade your CPU, while keeping the same chassis e.g.) might save you some money in the long run

that still kind expensive.

Still, doesn't inspire much trust. Luckily GNU Boot supports a few ThinkPad models.

You can find 32gb refurbs with memory already. It's much rarer though.

I've had good luck with Thinkpad, Latitude, and Elitebook laptops. I've actually got a pair of Elitebook 8440p machines left over from an old IT job. One of them I maxed out with an i7-740QM, 8GB DDR3, SSD, 1440x900 display, Nvidia discrete graphics, and all the extra options (except the little nib in the middle of the keyboard, like the Thinkpad Trackpoint... I hate those things).

Very interesting...

I assume the memory was expensive though because it's still ddr4 sticks.