Uhhh. I'm gen z and everyone I know knows not to download software from ads.

Where is here? You never said where you're talking about.

Tankies and fascists are just as bad. What are you trying to suggest?

I assumed you were on KDE since the dev who wrote the blog post was talking about KDE Wayland but are you on gnome? Gnome"s fractional scaling implementation isn't as good as KDE's.

In display settings check the box to allow x11 apps to scale themselves instead of the compositor. Your cursor will still be blurry but the app content itself will be fine. A few apps like steam won't scale without some kind of launch flag though.

It does for me. For some reason my touchpad has really high scroll sensitivity with libinput. It's borderline unusable. The only desktop environment that exposes the ability to change this sensitivity is plasma Wayland. AFAIK there's technical reasons it can't be done on xorg without hacky workarounds. This is the killer feature for me.

In addition both plasma and gnome only have 1:1 touchpad gestures on their Wayland sessions. Obviously I could use third party tools for trackpad gestures under x11 but those aren't 1:1.

Also while I'm aware that fractional scaling on Wayland is a mess and hacky but I still find the fractional scaling implementation on KDE Wayland to be the best, followed by KDE on xorg. I need fractional scaling for things to be appropriate sizes on my laptop screen.

For my desktop I still use x11 because of nvidia but I would definitely benefit from the multi monitor improvements under Wayland since I have two monitors of differing refresh rates and it causes issues.

Assuming this is college, requiring students to pay for software is part of the norm.

Look, it comes down to the fact that as far as I know, the vast majority of KDE developers are volunteers with their own lives. There was a given explanation for why it hasn't been fixed, it was complicated code that was hard to maintain. Its not as simple as someone writing code to reimplement the feature, the feature also needs to be maintained which is a lot of work for a project with so few resources compared to proprietary projects that can afford to pay hundreds of full time developers.

People requesting that feature to come back are just kind of rude about it, skipping out on basic manners. Personally if I were a KDE developer I wouldn't want to work on a feature after all that.

You probably have xdg-desktop-portal-kde installed and enabled. Try installing xdg-desktop-gnome and remove the KDE one and see if it makes a difference in launch times.

Edit: I'd also reboot afterwards

I'm not pretending that every place that Europeans colonized was some utopia before but Colonialism made all of these places worse. On top of that you're completely generalizing huge groups of people and their practices.

Wait it doesn't support RCS? Isn't google the one heavily pushing RCS?