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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

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

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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?

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] cepelinas@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 1 point 2 weeks ago

Thank you for suggesting this. I haven’t run it in probably a year. I’ll do that actually anyway.

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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world -1 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

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.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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…🙄

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Brother. I swapped a whole fucking pc.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] -1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Brother. I swapped a whole fucking pc.

So it must be vibecoding! New components can't be faulty, drivers for new hardware can't be less mature,... No! It must be vibecoding at KDE!

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I said “I hope”. Didn’t know you own KDE plasma.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I said “I hope”

You said you hope it's not because "they went hard on vibe-coding" which is an lunatic claim to make in the first place, just because some dude from KDE opened a discussion thread.

And you said that your broken ass PC with immature drivers will be the cause of you opening to many KDE bug reports that they'll hate you. That is what you said.

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[+] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

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[–] ieh@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

Do not use ableist slurs on Lemmy.World.

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[+] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

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[–] ieh@lemmy.world 1 point 1 week ago

Tip of the day: When an admin of an instance adivses you not to break the Terms of Service… consider refraining from doing so.

Good-bye.

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[–] BartyDeCanter@piefed.social 1 point 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I always run a few things after a new build to test for hardware issues:

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[–] DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

I ran one from a distro iso when I first got the pc and I got no issues. I’ll run it again just to be safe. Thank you.

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[–] Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

It can also happen if you moved the PC recently. RAM and socket sometimes make a bad connection after vibrations.

I've had a CPU temperature probe fail after a 1 hour car ride. Had to remove it and socket it again for it to work again.

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (6 children)

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

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 weeks ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago (4 children)

is this new PiP mode in Plasma a generic Wayland feature

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

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

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[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world [S] 1 point 2 weeks ago

Disclaimer: I could be wrong.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, it's Picture-in-Picture, not Python's Pip.

[–] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.