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    KDE Plasma 6.4 ships with major usability improvements
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    KDE Plasma 6.4.0 brings improved handling of window tiling, refinements to its dark mode, tweaked widgets and notifications, better sorting of search results from the built-in Krunner tool, a revamp to the screenshot tool Spectacle, among other things. The full changelog is nearly 3,500 lines long, so this is a significantly different release.

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    Plasma 6.4 - KDE Community
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    A new version of Plasma is here, and it feels even more like /home, as it becomes smoother, friendlier and more helpful.

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    Plasma 6.4 improves on nearly every front, with progress being made in accessibility, color rendering, tablet support, window management, and more.

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    As this is going to be a long read, lets get right into it

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    KiCad Advises Linux Users to Stick with X11 for Professional PCB Design
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    While KiCad does function under Wayland, the experience is far from seamless. Many problems stem from fundamental gaps in Waylands designfeatures that X11, Windows, and macOS have long taken for granted, such as window positioning and mouse cursor control.

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    The team outlined several persistent challenges, most of which originate from Wayland itself or its varying implementations across different desktop environments (GNOME, KDE, etc.). These include: [...]

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