FreeBSD has supported Plasma for a long time, but on OpenBSD, it’s been a long time coming. I believe a KDE desktop hasn’t been available on OpenBSD since Plasma 4, perhaps even KDE 3.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      31·
      9 months ago

      OpenBSD itself is very lightweight. It’ll run perfectly fine with half a GB of RAM and a shitty single core computer from ten years ago. They still ship a floppy installer image as the bare minimum.

      In comparison, Plasma is heavy. All of Plasma’s fancy features come at a performance cost, after all.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        5·
        9 months ago

        In comparison, Plasma is heavy.

        Yeah but that’s not the claim the OpenBSD developer made. The question was which notebook he would recommend now, not 10 years ago, and the reply was a strong one.

        All of Plasma’s fancy features come at a performance cost, after all.

        No, not by today’s standards. It runs fine on potato hardware.

      • woelkchen@lemmy.world
        62·
        9 months ago

        Plasma always needed slightly better than average hardware.

        Average hardware of which era? Plamsa runs smoothly on a Steam Deck which is artificially power-contrained to preserve battery. Plasma Mobile is for phones.