Episode 6:05: Plasma is the Way-Land

Coming up in this episode * Wayland is inevitable... * RAM is now Unobtanium * and a Linux User Space OS? Today in User Space, we RE-remind everyone that Wayland is certainly the only way forward for the big dogs. Gnome had adopted a Wayland-only stance quite a while ago, and now it looks like Plasma will be following suit. Then, we dive into the wonderful world of Everything terrible that AI is doing to us in the form of RAM price hikes (as much as 500%... so far). And finally, we hit up the feedback that's been piling up! There's a little more to get to eventually, but it'll all get there since we went a little long in this episode. 0:00 Cold Open 1:05 Wayland Is Inevitable... 26:53 RAM Is Now Unobtanium 49:54 The LUS Mailbag 50:19 Mailbag: Daniel 57:40 Mailbag: schemage2210 1:03:19 Mailbag: ewanmarshall 1:10:13 Mailbag: michaelchalmers 1:15:26 Next Time 1:23:08 Stinger The Video Version (https://youtu.be/dyfMTBn7AoM) https://youtu.be/dyfMTBn7AoM 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube (https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace) * 📽️TILvids (https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace) * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons (https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace) like you 😍 Plasma is all in on Wayland KDE blog post (https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/) We shouted back in 2023 on Season 4 Episode 5 (https://www.linuxuserspace.show/405) The Steam Deck which runs on KDE Plasma has high sales numbers (https://www.techspot.com/news/106921-handheld-gaming-pcs-surpass-6-million-sales-steam.html) 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [e-mail] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) RAM prices are silly. It is all AI's fault. Micron, the manufacturer of Crucal memory, will stop selling RAM to consumers (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/) Leo spotted prices in the store (https://mastodon.social/@leochavez/115651809388374401) and they were high. 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show) * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit (https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit) * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server (https://linuxuserspace.show/discord) * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram (https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram) * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix (https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix) * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon (https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon) * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter) * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids (https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids) * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky (https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky) Feedback Daniel via Fireside Daniel published an example using KDE environment (https://github.com/sigulete/kde-bootc) ewanmarshall at YouTube WinBoat (https://www.winboat.app) gives a big warning about access to the filesystem. schemage2210 at YouTube plocate (https://plocate.sesse.net) is only great if you know the file name. 😉😂 michelchalmers at YouTube Two passwords are better than one on encrypted systems that have multiple users. No disagreement. While it is an extra step it can be solved when you add the second user. 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince