Yes, your niece can probably scribble something on Krita; my niece could, too. But that's a pretty low bar. I need a system I can rely on to get important work done, where most stuff reasonably works out of the box. And for that, KDE simply was not a serious option. Very basic functionality, like on-screen keyboards (OSK) simply were not workable with reasonable effort. And yes, I did not spend two days browsing forums and file bugs to fix such basic stuff. So yes, you are technically correct, I could have used it in a really hacky, ugly way. But I simply did not want to, and it turns out that mine is not an unrealistic expectation, since GNOME was able to do what I needed.

So here are a few more details to support my case and tell you I wasn't just ranting: I couldn't log on from the display manager, because the OSK wouldn't come on, so I had to try gdm3 and lightdm anyway, just to be able to log on.
Logging into my plasma wayland session, OSKs didn't just automatically work in that case. So the idea is that they would just automatically pop up when a text field is highlighted. (How do you do that?) So I installed onboard, xkvd (and a few other ones, I believe), and not in a single case, I could get the on-screen keyboard to work. The problem was that the OSK always stole the focus form the window it was supposed to put stuff in, so it simply did not work. Yes, I could have spent two days in forums to figure it out, but I didn't have the time to do that. (One of the reasons could have been that you need to run a wayland session running to get the screen autorotation to work.)
I also wasn't able to build a desktop that would work both in landscape and portrait mode; the bottom panel would look absolutely ridiculous and was unusable in landscape mode. It seemed like no one had really thought about that. I ended up building two activities, one for tablet mode and one for regular mode. But it still looked really, really ugly and hacky. Really not something I would want to use.

Believe me, I really wanted this to work. I am not here to rant and bash KDE.
To be fair, I tried this using kubuntu LTS, and they're still on Plasma 5.27. I know there may be more polished KDE distros out there. For a while, I had half the family on KDE neon, but with their rolling releases, stuff just constantly broke, and it became a total maintenance nightmare. So back to kubuntu (now ubuntu, I guess).
In terms of tablet usability, was KDE 6 much better than KDE 5? I could look if there's some KDE 6 backport repo out there for kubuntu LTS.

Only true if you use a traditional, old-school device. I recently got 2-in-1 laptop, only to find out that KDE still does not have a functional tablet mode! So after using KDE exclusively since 2006, I was forced to switch to a DE that actually works on a tablet. Yes, apparently, in 2025, the KDE way to have tablet mode is to install and run GNOME...
This comes from a super loyal and enthusiastic KDE user who suffered through the KDE 4 crisis/nightmare in 2008. Back then, the justification was that this was all necessary because we were going to switch to a totally new way of doing things (plasma), which would then work on different kinds of devices. I think it was called "convergence". I think it's just absolutely bonkers that 17 years later, we still can't use KDE on a tablet. Nuts.

Well, being Pwned is one thing. But this one apparently has a combination of DOB, SSN, and banking info. In terms of being able to wreak real havoc in terms of ID theft, it doesn't take much more... This is very different from, say, having your Slashdot account Pwned.

Does not sound like big news: I have been using the free Android App IP Webcam that does exactly that. You can get a camera stream with audio that you can watch remotely in any browser (OS independent). You can also change many camera settings, such as resolution, turn on/off the flash, add motion detection, etc.

Nough said.

I am actually scared because the U.S. has recently started a habit to enable monsters. This tradition may possibly be continued and expanded in 2022 and 2024. This is mostly a war on democracy. Democracy in the U.S. has also been under attack. Quite scary, IMO.

I meant 3.9 => 3.10... Didn't see that the ">" in the headline got killed...

Did not read the article or the summary... but how is switching from 3.9 to 3.10 a major release? Sounds like a textbook case of a minor release to me. Also, from the changes described, that seems to be exactly what it is. Wouldn't there have been 9 similar releases "Since the Transition from Python 2"?

Wow... this kind of wild, unfounded speculation gets a "5, Insightful"? This rating you would give to the highest quality content. What does that make the other contributions?

Dolphin still does not do the random horizontal/vertical tiling, does it? That's a killer feature for me.

I think the idea that it shouldn't be used as a file manager just because it was designed as a browser totally silly. Can you name any other POSIX file manager that does the arbitrary horizontal/vertical tiling combined with all the other awesome features Konqueror has? What feature makes Dolphin better than Konqueror for you?

I don't think there is anything wrong with "right tool for the right job". My POSIX file manager is Konqueror, as for me it beats anything else hands down. So it's my one and only tool for the job.

Please mod this up.

Konqueror still has a lot of functionality you won't find in Dolphin. There is no limit in horizontal or vertical tiling; Dolphin only does the left/right split. Konqueror uses the space very efficiently in this way. I haven't found anything that comes even close.

I think a general problem in KDE (may be true for other software projects, too) is that the developers are always driven by stuff that's challenging and fun to implement, but they (understandably) don't enjoy taking care of the "easier" but more time consuming details. They start out with great plans and change everything from scratch, but they totally underestimate how much work it will actually be to get everything right again, so they run out of time to do it.
The loser in all of this is the end user, who wants to have a working desktop. Whenever it is working "too well", the developers come up with some great new plan how to do it all better. But in reality, this means that 80%-90% of the time the users will have to put up with a system that is broken to varying degrees. Seems just like a broken design model to begin with. It was like this in both KDE3=>4 and 4=>5 transitions.
And when the users complain, they are told that it's all the work of volunteers and that they should not have any expectations. They are told to fix it themselves, because it's all FOSS. But from a user's point of view, one could say that it's the developers who actually broke it. The ambitious developers get to steer a project into a certain direction, even if the community suffers from it. That's a very fundamental unsolved problem.