No AI? Are they allowed to do that? Are you sure?
this post was submitted on 08 Jan 2026
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- Types in username and password
"Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!"
- Nothing happens. Try to log in again
"You're absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I'll log you into your system now. Have fun!"
- Nothing happens
Made me laugh
I demand newly minted slop on every wake from suspend 😤
Already created a issue ticket /s
I demand a KoChauffeur+ button. How are we supposed to login to our computer without a ~~slop~~chatbox!?
Feature request: AI password validator , because who needs central directory anyway
Letting AI decide if I entered the correct password is so much better than actually storing the passwords in an encrypted keychain (which can be hacked!!!). AI is revolutionizing security. This is the way of the future. /s
Very cool. I’m consistently impressed by the KDE devs.
Damn. I wonder when this trickles down to CachyOS and Bazzite.
Quickly in Bazzite, not at all in Cachy since that's based on Arch.
But you can choose your login manager on Arch, too.
And yet, Fedora changing their default login manager won't affect Arch.
??? are you being serious? obviously fedorah isnt arch.
anyway, Cachy will have it the second KDE adds it to the plasma / kde-applications packages.
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I guess that person didn't know they could set it up themselves. Maybe they meant that it's installed and configured automatically on new installs.
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Duh, but now that this has replaced SDDM as the main login manager for plasma, Cachy will likely replace SDDM with it by default.
What kind of argument is that?
It's already in AUR, you can install it right now if you want.
Right, but since it isn’t based on Fedora, which this post is about, what Fedora is doing has no bearing on what CachyOS uses as its defaults.
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looking forward to it, sddm is the only thing I have left that depends on xorg directly
Fedora will be the first distro? Adopting it even faster than KDE Neon, a distro made by KDE itself?
KDE neon is really only a development platform, and it is barely maintained.
Ah, TIL. I just figured it was the KDE-est general-purpose distro.
But still, shouldn't it at least have a development version of Plasma Login Manager sooner than any others, for testing?
it probably does, but it isnt considered a 'real' distro since it isnt suitable for non-development use (nor is it meant to be). its a very common misconception about KDE neon to think that since it's the KDE branded one it must be the best general-purpose KDE distro.
thats why they are making KDE Linux. KDE Linux is going to be what a lot of people mistakenly take neon to be while also fulfilling the role of 'development standard implementation/example implementation for distros to reference' much better.
Did you look this up?
What do you think is more likely - that KDE Neon does not have a testing version of Plasma Login Manager or that a sensationalistic news headline is not giving you a 100% accurate and complete understanding?
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meanwhile I just want to go back to blank/black lockscreen with no visual cues and you just type the password and nothing happens of it's wrong, but I've been quite sick of trying to look up how to do forgotten things I had on older systems only to get AI slop guides that ramble on with a hallucinated life story and either never getting to the point of just not working.
I wish no visuals could just be a setting on all distros
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Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
This reminds me of what a pain in the it was for me to get an IME working. I may not be smart, but even accounting for that, it was unnecessarily complicated.
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