What people usually really don't know about is that you can make Plasma use under 500MB of RAM, and make it as snappy as any tiling WM, just through its GUI options without even touching the command line.
I went into the animation settings and disabled them all. Then I went into the background service settings and disabled autostart for all of them.
I use kwin-bismuth to turn plasma into a tiling window manager, set up my keybindings for moving windows around, etc. Then I define window rules in kwin settings, so each application I use starts on a dedicated workspace.
I basically just use plasma underneathe it so I don't need to worry about stuff like automounting, media keys, fonts, theming, bluetooth and all that jazz. It works out of the box, and I think it's dumb to have to configure it all in a tiling WM.
Key insights
🌄 Dynamic wallpapers in KDE Plasma allow for automatic selection of different lock screen images, including live wallpapers and picture of the day, providing a customizable and visually appealing desktop experience.
🌐 The Bing collection in KDE Plasma is the most versatile and automatically loads images when you lock your screen, making it a great feature for customization.
🔍 "On Plasma, I can dynamically zoom into the display with the keyboard combination meta control and simply scrolling."
🖱️ The magnifier effect allows you to zoom in on your mouse cursor with just a simple shortcut.
📦 KD Plasma offers native support for setting flatpack permissions, making it easier to give them more access to your system.
🎨 Global themes in KDE Plasma can come with scripts to improve your experience, adding a new layer of customization to your system.
🖥️ Adding the Global menu widget to the panel essentially gives you all the features usually available at the top of the application, similar to Mac OS.
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