Kde Plasma 6.5 Released
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The KDE community released Plasma 6.5, a new version of their popular Linux desktop environment, with users and developers sharing enthusiasm and feedback on the update.
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Overall, fractional scaling is the killer feature on KDE Wayland, especially with its XWayland integration. Whenever I use fractional scaling in GNOME, XWayland gets a resolution that is way higher than my actual display. I believe it is done so in a way (I could go be wrong) where XWayland gets a 2X resolution of whatever the fractional scaling resolution is, so it can be down sampled to the fractional scaling resolution simply. This results in me having to change the resolution in my games, which a lot of them don't support custom resolutions. Then, I have to use gamescope, which has shitty mouse input and increase performance degradation, especially on a laptop APU.
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