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KDE Plasma 6.7 is just around the corner.
With tons of new features and polish, the latest release is impressive.
You can test it on the KDE Neon unstable release.
KDE Plasma is slowly becoming one of my favorite desktop environments, and with the upcoming version 6.7, it might very well claim the top spot.
With its imminent release, I thought it would be good to see how the new version looked and felt. To do that, I had to download the unstable version of KDE Neon (it lives up to its "unstable" name, so I wouldn't recommend it) and boot it up as a virtual machine, using Virt Manager/KVM.
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Wow. Just… wow. The KDE team has seriously delivered, and this upcoming release is, hands down, the best they've ever offered. It starts with the look.
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