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Bazzite 44 aggiorna tutto: GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6 e kernel 6.19 per il gaming Linux

https://yoota.it/bazzite-44-aggiorna-tutto-gnome-50-plasma-6-6-e-kernel-6-19-per-il-gaming-linux/

Fedora Linux 44 arrives with GNOME 50 and updated Asahi Remix support for Apple Silicon Macs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/04/fedora-linux-44/

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 brings Linux to Apple Silicon Macs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/fedora-asahi-remix-43/

KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially live!

The KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment is now officially available to the public! You can now try out this version of the desktop environment to get awesome new features, as well as performance improvements and stability enhancements.

According to the KDE Plasma team, this version is like a “visual guide to the best desktop in the known universe,” because it makes your life easier without sacrificing flexibility by adding usability and accessibility features and improvements.

The top three features introduced in this version of KDE Plasma are:

• Improved on-screen keyboard: The on-screen keyboard has been renewed and enhanced to make it more useful on touch-screen devices, such as tablets.
• Spectacle Text Recognition: You can now extract text from the screenshots using the OCR technique that scans text in the screenshots and converts it to plain text.
• Plasma Setup: When an operating system is installed, the Plasma Setup wizard appears, and it lets you configure your user account, your keyboard layout, and much more.

Additionally, it introduces brand new features to make your desktop easier to use, especially when it comes to users that need accessibility features, such as color filtering (for color blindness) and strict centered mode for the magnifier.

For more information about the release, you can consult the announcement here.

Plasma 6.6 lets you configure scheduling priorities

As Plasma 6.6 goes into bug fixing stage before the final release, this week, the KDE Plasma team has added a new feature to the System Monitor that restores a feature related to processor and input/output process priority management that existed in the older KSysGuard program. This allows you to set priorities for a process in both contexts.

When you open the “Set Priority” window for a specific process, the following CPU scheduling options are available:

• Normal: The standard time-sharing scheduler for processes without special requirements.
• Batch: Process is mildly disfavored in scheduling decisions, for CPU-intensive non-interactive processes.
• Round-robin: Process will run whenever runnable, with timeslicing.
• FIFO: Process will run whenever runnable, with no timeslicing.

However, for I/O scheduling settings, the following options can be provided to a process:

• Normal: Process’ priority is based on the CPU priority.
• Idle: Process can only use the hard disk when no other process has used it very recently.
• Best Effort: Process is given higher priority to access the hard disk than normal.
• Real Time: Process gets immediate access to the hard disk whenever needed, regardless of what else is going on.

The priority slider can be adjusted from 1 to 40 for the CPU priority, while the I/O priority slider can be adjusted from 0 to 7. The lowest value means the process is getting the least priority, and the highest value means the process is getting the most priority. This uses a new API that was introduced to libksysguard.

KDE Plasma 6.6 also brings an improvement that allows you to manually check the file system for errors while eliminating the automated check when you mount a drive. Search bar has also been added to the screen choser dialog, and many other improvements were made.

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KDE Plasma 6.6 fixes a screensaver bug for gamers

The screensaver bug that manifested when gamers play a game using their controller on their PC has been fixed for the upcoming release of KDE Plasma 6.6. Gamers who are experiencing this bug can now have a comfortable gaming experience after upgrading to KDE Plasma 6.6.

The blog article of This Week in Plasma states that the KDE desktop team has fixed an issue where the screensaver or screen locking mechanism would start during the gaming session using the controller as an input device instead of a mouse and a keyboard. This enhances experience for gamers who prefer to use controllers by considering every input event from the gaming controller as an activity.

A 13-year old bug report was made against KDE 4.x. Since then, the problem has spread from KDE 4.x to KDE Plasma 5.x and 6.x desktop environments across different versions of Linux distributions, disrupting the gamers’ experience for 13 consecutive years, with workarounds being posted.

Starting from KDE Plasma 6.6, which will be released on February 17th, gamers will be able to use their gamepads without worrying about their screen turning off during their gaming session.

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