Not Hacker News Logo

Not

Hacker

News!

Home
Hiring
Products
Companies
Discussion
Q&A
Users
Not Hacker News Logo

Not

Hacker

News!

AI-observed conversations & context

Daily AI-observed summaries, trends, and audience signals pulled from Hacker News so you can see the conversation before it hits your feed.

LiveBeta

Explore

  • Home
  • Hiring
  • Products
  • Companies
  • Discussion
  • Q&A

Resources

  • Visit Hacker News
  • HN API
  • Modal cronjobs
  • Meta Llama

Briefings

Inbox recaps on the loudest debates & under-the-radar launches.

Connect

© 2025 Not Hacker News! — independent Hacker News companion.

Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. We simply enrich the public API with analytics.

Not Hacker News Logo

Not

Hacker

News!

Home
Hiring
Products
Companies
Discussion
Q&A
Users
  1. Home
  2. /Discussion
  3. /KDE Plasma 6.5 Released
  1. Home
  2. /Discussion
  3. /KDE Plasma 6.5 Released
Last activity about 1 month agoPosted Oct 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM EDT

Kde Plasma 6.5 Released

jrepinc
35 points
8 comments

Mood

supportive

Sentiment

positive

Category

other

Key topics

Kde Plasma
Linux Desktop
Open Source Software
Debate intensity20/100

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.

Snapshot generated from the HN discussion

Discussion Activity

Moderate engagement

First comment

53m

Peak period

6

Day 1

Avg / period

3.5

Key moments

  1. 01Story posted

    Oct 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM EDT

    about 1 month ago

    Step 01
  2. 02First comment

    Oct 21, 2025 at 6:45 AM EDT

    53m after posting

    Step 02
  3. 03Peak activity

    6 comments in Day 1

    Hottest window of the conversation

    Step 03
  4. 04Latest activity

    Oct 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM EDT

    about 1 month ago

    Step 04

Generating AI Summary...

Analyzing up to 500 comments to identify key contributors and discussion patterns

Discussion (8 comments)
Showing 7 comments of 8
rocketvole
about 1 month ago
2 replies
anyone know if fractional scaling works without a performance hit in this new iteration? or any other de that fractionally scales without performance dips? All i can see is adding debugging tests for fractional scaling.
hurricanepootis
about 1 month ago
1 reply
I use fractional scaling on the desktop (150%) and haven't noticed any performance degradation or unexpected slowness. Do you have any information on what someone should be looking for?

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.

rocketvole
about 1 month ago
I was specifically referring to the down sampling that you refer to on GNOME. I don't think I've seen a linux desktop environment where this isn't the case. The result is that when you drag or resize windows (or have any movement on your screen in general) your cpu/gpu spikes. While I'm sure it's not a huge deal on modern hardware, The performance penalty on my dell xps 13 from 2015 is pretty significant, and it looks like the cpu usage when dragging/resizing windows doubles on linux compared to windows 10, which makes sense. battery life also takes a serious hit. Since no one has seemed to be able to figure this out, I wonder if it's a compositor specific thing? like there's no way to change this behavior without rewriting wayland or something.
jlpcsl
about 1 month ago
I use fractional scaling on both of my screens and didn't notice any slowdown. I guess scaling is very cheap and fast on GPUs of today so it does not cause any noticable slowdown.
gjvc
about 1 month ago
on debian/sid now
wkat4242
about 1 month ago
Nice! Can't wait for this to hit my OS. The dark mode settings and pinned clipboard stuff are my favourites.
jlpcsl
about 1 month ago
Love how they are rounding various corners lately. Just slightly enough so it is not too much. And love ro se the Wayland PIP support. Can't wait until Firefox gets support for this.

1 more comments available on Hacker News

View full discussion on Hacker News
ID: 45654102Type: storyLast synced: 11/20/2025, 2:09:11 PM

Want the full context?

Jump to the original sources

Read the primary article or dive into the live Hacker News thread when you're ready.

Read ArticleView on HN
Not Hacker News Logo

Not

Hacker

News!

AI-observed conversations & context

Daily AI-observed summaries, trends, and audience signals pulled from Hacker News so you can see the conversation before it hits your feed.

LiveBeta

Explore

  • Home
  • Hiring
  • Products
  • Companies
  • Discussion
  • Q&A

Resources

  • Visit Hacker News
  • HN API
  • Modal cronjobs
  • Meta Llama

Briefings

Inbox recaps on the loudest debates & under-the-radar launches.

Connect

© 2025 Not Hacker News! — independent Hacker News companion.

Not affiliated with Hacker News or Y Combinator. We simply enrich the public API with analytics.