I just wanted to add a note of positive and let the teams know that some of us are blown away by the recent release of Kubuntu 24.10, and Plasma 6.2 in Neon.
Plasma 6.2 on Neon 22.04 went perfectly. The improvements are remarkable.
Kubuntu was a bit of a shock. I have been running both Neon and Kubuntu side by side for years now, and they have been functionally identical in performance. Not this time. After upgrading Kubuntu 24.04 to 24.10, I have seen a massive performance gain. About 15% overall so far.
Obviously I have only just begun testing, but it is consistently stomping all over Neon on every test I do. What is responsible for that, I am unsure. It may be the new 6.11 kernel, or it may be due to a much more modern graphics stack over Neon 22.04 and Kubuntu 24.04 with P5, maybe the newer version of Vulkan… I do not not know. But wow.
Wayland in Kubuntu went from unusable to OMG. It is beating X11 in every test by 5 to 10% (X11 in Kubuntu is beating X11 in Neon by about the same amount as well).
I should point out that Kubuntu was upgraded from 24.04 and this system has been installed since 22.10.
I have not yet done the rebase as Neon is my daily driver and I have been too distracted by Kubuntu 24.10 to do what I need to get Neon upgraded. I have already decided I am going to do a complete refresh of everything in Neon, from the system, to my home folder and apps. This is due to its age and the fact that it is bloated with ancient garbage.
I am hoping to see the same sort of performance gain with the Rebase. Problem is, if Kubuntu 24.04 was any indication, I wont. At which point… I may switch back to Kubuntu as my daily driver, and make Neon my testing toy, because I know I wont be able to give up 15% of my performance - it will just sit there gnawing at me.
All in all, this has been a really cool week for KDE.