Not an expert programmer whatsoever, and it's been more than 15 years I've used Python for doing something GUI related (it was Python 2 and GTK+2...), but I do know you can do KDE stuff with Python right now. For example, there are Kirigami bindings for Python you can use to do a desktop/mobile app.

Still though I absolutely agree getting into C++ is a nightmare, to me is just a level behind Assembly and Brainfuck. I'd like to learn Rust and it'd be great to be able to contribute to KDE with it.

You can now place files in ~/Templates and they will appear as templates in the “Create New…” menu that appears in various places [...]

That's absolutely great! Last time I tried to put something to show up in those menus was a tricky process (and a bit frustrating, too, as I remembered at that time with Windows 98/XP it was easier than that) and in the next minor Plasma update they were gone, so never bothered again. It's like at least 10 years too late, but thankfully they remembered about that.

Pretty sure that's the kind of updates people would like to see more often

Of course it's a good thing, but it's not something Gentoo is particuarly goot at it (nor any distro, that is) but its detractors claim Gentoo says is "lean on resources" only to "debunk" that.

And the myth that is "supercomplicated", but in the end the only "difficult" part is to install it - in the daily, pedestrian usage it's pretty much like any other (rolling release) distro. Well, of course except package installation/update times, but it's beyond to me why people created that false urgency of needing to have everything installed and updated the second you issued the command. It's not like you won't be able to use your computer at all while Portage does its thing.

Apparently you can use the USE FLAGS to determine what stuff you want and it's meant to be even more lean on resources.

True and false; the "something special" in Gentoo is that you can tailor it to fit to your needs, and as far as I know no other distro comes even close - maybe the now almost defuct Funtoo. The "it's more lean on resources" always seemed to me like a strawman people don't like it came up with to diss on Gentoo.

I mean, iOS is not doing better in that sense. They both are already mature systems and I think it would be great if they concentrate in polishing and perfecting what they already have (and hope AOSP doesn't fall into the AI crap) but I guess that's just me.

The miraculous solution to this bug so we can use a different wallpaper on each virtual desktop, like in the ol' KDE4.x days

Great, now the next time I use nano I surely will forget about this and get frustrated when trying to save a file with Ctrl+O

The problem I had with nano is that, for the time being, it was supposed to be easy to use. With that in account I always get lost when saving a file and closing the thing because one's used to doing something else with Ctrl+O and Ctrl+X.

Whereas with Vim (and Neovim for a little while, and now with Vis) I knew it had a steep learning curve from the start so I always had it in mind. And all the funny stories about quitting vim.

First and foremost, that my hardware peripherals work with it (wifi card, camera, bt stuff if you have it...) - if not (and hope you don't nor would be frustrated by it happens), that there's a way to make it work

If sharing a picture from the past weekend is allowed, here's mine - I went from my home at the extreme north of Bogotá all the way to the south, a sector that is stigmatized as "dangerous" (ironically, where I live there's kind of the same stigma) and went down a town called Une, the oldest in this department (or state, if you will), where my dad, parents and brothers lived when he was a kid - you have to go from +3200 to ~2300 meters above sea level, all in ~11 kilometers or so. This picture was taken at the lowest point of the ride, so please excuse me for the shitty quality of it - my hands were numb after pressing the brake levers for pretty much all of the descent, which was a pretty shitty road, as much of the countryside roads here. Maybe a thing for a gravel or mtb bike, but still somehow I managed to do it and it was peaceful with almost no cars whatsoever.

Oh and that was just the beginning, the ride back to the top was no stroll through the park either - it rained all though and through and got freezing to the top - but it was really great. I still can't believe i could do it.

It's great that since 5.x they're giving attention to the tiny action icons. Pinheiro did an amazing work on apps, places and other icons with the Oxygen set in the KDE 4.x era, but its mini action icons were kind of lost and had too much detail. Though with 5.x they did some great improvement about consistency, the 1px thickess just didn't help too much into readability.

I do icons and have done icons for KDE in the past so I can tell that indeed the work they have done is huge and the result is outstanding.

By living in a country with no seasons