We've jumped from November 2025 to the end of May 2026 and a lot has happened.  I've pulled out of most of my servers and also out of much of my online presence since the serious health problems I've been learning to deal with.
At the same time, The computer world has been steadily evolving.  My last post was still about Plasma 5 and the wonderful experience I was having after 1) moving my OS back to KDE neon, and 2) discovering just how useful a couple of old Surface Pro 3 tablets with i5 processors could be when running Plasma.

Unfortunately, a major update that happened when I updated Plasma 5 to Plasma 5 without realising I was doing it (because the Surface Pro had been sitting unused for a long time) killed the system.  Fortunately, all that was needed was the 10 minutes it took to download and reinstall KDE neon.

I'm currently running Plasma 6 and as usual I am running the Testing release.  That means at the end of May 2026 I am running Plasma 6.6.90 and soon I should see that tick over to Plasma 6.7.

KDE's Plasma Desktop is still doing all the beautiful things that make it a dream to work with and have kept me returning to KDE for most of the last 26 years or so.  Everything just 'works, but it goes so much further.  I can get the desktop to look and feel exactly how I like it simply by switching in some settings, or in the case of some of my more playful tweaks, by downloading a few pieces of software.

Wayland has matured and I have even found a useable workaround for the lack of a function to Shade the Title Bar by scrolling it with the mouse wheel.  I would still prefer the mousewheel roll-up, roll-down Shading, but because Wayland simply cannot do that, I can live with the alternative.

Even XWinWrap which I use for runnig a lot of video stuff, and have written numerous scripts that use it to run videos in various ways, can still be used to run any video and many other media files, as Video Wallpaper for my Desktops.
Sincce XWinWrap was designed to use X11, I was sure it would eventually not work in Wayland.  Even now I am not sure if it is working 'uunder wayland' or if it is using Xwayland, but whichever it is, I still have a powerful little toolI can use thanks to Shantanu Goel.

Everything else about Plasma just keeps getting better.  Not in leaps and bounds, but as steady improvements from one point release to the next.  Some people complain that Plasma has 'Too many options or choices' and can be confusing for new users.

The reality is that if you don;t use all the options and choices, any Linux distribution that uses KDE Plasma for its Desktop is just as easy to use and navigate as any other Desktop.  Just don;t use all the options!  
However, if you settle in to just using it as it was first installed, or only change things that are already familiar to you from using Windows, or another Linux distro, and if you want to change the look and feel of your Plasma Desktop or adjust the way things are done - do a search on YouTube to see 'How' if it isn't immediately obvious in the Settings Menu.

A whole new world opens up once you play around in there.