taking plasma 5 for a spin...

[edbarx]

my machine (first-generation i7 laptop, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, 1GB Nvidia Quadro 1800M)

There you have a machine worthy of petaflops that can simulate a nuclear explosion in real time!

[sunrat]

I used siduction for several years and love its default Plasma 5. Unfortunately I was without decent internet for a few months to do the regular large updates and switched to MX-15. siduction broke catastrophically when I tried to update it on getting new internet but I will wait for the next release before reinstalling.

Had almost 2,500 flac files I converted to 320k mp3 and normalized yesterday with soundkonverter

You must have a fruit phone to want to do this. I use and recommend Ogg Vorbis at Q7 for transcoding flac for my android devices. Similar quality and much smaller file sizes.
SoundKonverter is extraordinarily useful and best in class IMO.

[1624]

I just love Plasma 5. Look and feel is awesome. Faster than KDE 4. Everything works like a charm.

Except i can't mute all system sounds, so i delete that sound directory and now it's nice and quiet.

[Eireannach]

Tried KDE several times but my PC had only 2gig RAM and it falls over. In any case as I always had lower specified equipment (right back to the VIC20) I am obsessive about cutting overhead back as far as I can ( Mostly XFCE / Window managers like Openbox/i3 etc) . Couldn't get to like the KDE bling and baubles and the K everywhere - I know I'm being ridiKulous

[No_windows]

Tried KDE several times but my PC had only 2gig RAM and it falls over.

I ran Kubuntu as my first Linux distribution on 2gigs, until I couldn't stand the trouble anymore. That was in the Kubuntu 10/11-ish timeframe.

In any case as I always had lower specified equipment (right back to the VIC20)

Hey, I had one of those when I was a kid...... inherited it from my uncle!

I know I'm being ridiKulous

The naming everything with a K is actually irritating to me....... I guess it feel forced to me.

[cra1g321]

I like the look and direction plasma5 is going and that it stays true to KDE4.

I tried out when i moved to Debian Sid and found it to be very stable than the first time i tried it with openSUSE leap, the only i ran into was when konsole is closed, the process remains and takes up 25% of my CPU,
i think it only occurs if you use the nvidia non-free driver, I just used mate-terminal instead.

I ended up going back to my tint2 openbox desktop though, i feel i will have a far less bumpy ride using a minimal desktop than using plasma5 on Sid.

I think by the time Stretch becomes the new stable, plasma5 will have matured nicely