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KDE Plasma 6.4 Released

by jlpcsl on 6/17/25, 11:03 AM with 8 comments

• by garciansmith on 6/17/25, 1:57 PM

  "When dragging files to another location on the same disk using Dolphin or the Plasma desktop, you can now have the system always move the files, rather than being asked what to do every time."

  The default behavior of the file manager (always asking if you want to move or copy the files) might have been the only quirk that took some getting used to when I first started using KDE a few years ago. In the end I got used to it, even prefer it (you can hold shift or control while dragging to automatically move or copy), but it's nice that it's configurable now.

• by Rooster61 on 6/17/25, 1:44 PM

  With the upcoming cutoff for Windows 10, I'm very please to have recently started experimenting using KDE Plasma. I tried it well over a decade ago and thought it was incredibly clunky. It's come a long ways, an I'm glad I'm going to have a smooth transition to running Linux full time in terms of GUI.

• by keb_ on 6/17/25, 3:58 PM

  Switched both my work PC and personal PC over to Fedora KDE in the last year, and have loved every minute of it! Far better than GNOME, in my experience.

• by kylebenzle on 6/17/25, 1:20 PM

  The biggest news on HN this week!

  Kde is the only software project I've ever seen that gets better and better over time.

• by speckx on 6/17/25, 1:45 PM

  Looking forward to the per-workspace tiling options.