KDE Plasma has been upgraded to version 6.5 to provide you with big improvements for your desktop experience on your Linux installation. It has been officially announced in the KDE website that stated that KDE was "on the verge of making it big for the general public" and that it has reached the inflection point. This upgrade turns your awesome desktop to a more fantastic desktop that adds new features while incorporating many improvements.

Since the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.5 was released, several improvements and new features, such as the grayscale option for the color correction feature, were added to the release to make it more stable. The result is that the second beta is finally released! The beta testing version contains many promising changes, such as: Support for the "Picture in Picture" Wayland protocol…

The anticipated KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment, which is a successor to Plasma 6.4, has reached its beta stage after weeks and weeks of promising development, such as the day/night cycle setting and the dynamic wallpaper setting. The beta version allows you to test the KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment that will be finalized as several weeks go. The beta version contains many promising changes, such as:

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Veamos el proceso de instalación y echemos un primer vistazo a la nueva distribución inmutable oficial de la comunidad KDE

The KDE team have been busy, as they're making their own full Linux distro with KDE Linux being a reference implementation OS for Plasma and KDE apps.

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KDE has launched its own immutable Linux distribution in alpha. It acts as a 'reference implementation', offering atomic updates, Flatpak apps and more.

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The KDE project team officially released the alpha version of KDE Linux! Try this new immutable OS designed to showcase KDE software!

* https://pointieststick.com/2025/09/06/announcing-the-alpha-release-of-kde-linux/

KDE Linux, which was in the testing stage, has moved to the Alpha stage after weeks of testing. This means that the KDE Linux has now become mature enough for serious testing, but not production-ready yet. The banana has been used as a leading homepage for KDE Linux, and the distribution has only received limited testing so far, so you'll have to perform additional testing for edge cases, including uncommon hardware and computers using the NVIDIA graphics card.