This week in KDE: Tons of UI improvements and bugfixes
LTT has certainly helped to force devs to &quot;think&quot; about the usability of the software with regards to &quot;unwashed masses&quot; to put it bluntly. the workflow that an expert is &quot;expected&quot; to know and easily get used to won&#x27;t cut it for &quot;normies&quot; and that needs improvement.<p>stuff like flatpak has helped greatly to achieve that. Remember, earlier one used to have OS specific binaries, many would only offer token .deb and call it a day. otherwise you had to compile stuff...<p>the steam deck has exposed new people to linux who expect their systems to not break as much...<p>me personally have been running kde neon since 5.12 i think. once had to reinstall it. otherwise its smooth sailing on my dell latitude E7440 laptop.<p>minor quirks, like having to &quot;open in konsole&quot; an appimage instead of just double clicking it and expecting it to work has to be improved. or missing package in krdc in wayland session which i found out a few weeks ago.  stuff like HP printer does detect on one machine but printer fails to print. &quot;rendering completed&quot; which on scouring the internet tells me to install HPLIP and even then i got nothing.<p>i think i can get the printer working, maybe. but it would take &quot;time to research and look for fixes&quot;, exactly the kind of stuff that could be fixed by usability tests for example.<p>i dont think the &quot;normies&quot; should have to go and scour the internet for drivers and then spend hours learning HOW TO INSTALL drivers without breaking the system, why can&#x27;t we have nice things?<p>take a look at this. Okular supports various document formats. suppose by default, OXPS isnt supported that one has to download its plugin. Instead of auto downloading the package after asking me &quot;you are trying to open this .oxps in okular which needs a plugin, should i download and install it?&quot; it says &quot;no plugin found&quot; or something to that end. correct information but not helpful. what am i supposed to do next?<p>i am not dissing on any work done by these great people, on the contrary i actively look for bugs and report on all major FOSS software that i daily drive but i have &quot;experience&quot; now, the next person does not.<p>drivers is a pain point. I installed neon last month on a PC that needed to use those cheap wifi dongles. they do provide a linux installer but apparently that broke the system so i am forced to install windows 7 on that machine because it isn&#x27;t going to be under my supervision