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KDE Plasma 6.5 released
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this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Unfortunately, KDE is quantity over quality. I like the look and feel for the most part, but out of all the mainstream DEs, I'd say it's the buggiest. GNOME with too many extensions is absolutely less stable, but vanilla KDE is embarrassing for stability, even on Linux Approved hardware.
I've experienced far fewer bugs on KDE 6 than Mint or Cinnamon, and I refuse to use GNOME. What else are you comparing against?
They are comparing against a mix of "trust me bro" and "i've heard that...". The local classic
You're making assumptions. I've used GNOME since 2008, with extensive use of KDE and Cinnamon too in later years. I've used other DEs such as XFCE for niche applications. KDE - for me - has always been buggy despite being the most feature rich. This is just my experience. You don't have to trust me.
Edit: Currently daily driving COSMIC. It was a little rough in the Alpha stages but it's now very stable for me.
Cinnamon I've found to be buggy too. Panel and wallpaper glitches, black screens on wakeup, to name a few.
If you knew/remember the first days of KDE 5, it was the buggiest DE ever invented at that time. However nowadays I barely even see any bug in KDE, at least for my use cases. And I'm a WM guy who use KDE out of laziness.