Welcome! I'm sure the few people left on NVIDIA on Linux will appreciate
your work. Many have just abandoned them all together (myself included).
Their new work is promising but it's got a long way to go to make up for
years of neglect of Linux. I'm sure the Plasma and KWin teams will love
to see more people working on making KDE amazing!
Make sure to jump in the relevant Matrix rooms that interest you and say
hi! https://community.kde.org/Matrix#Rooms
Justin
On 30/12/24 01:40, Vlad Korol wrote:
Howdy everyone!
My name is Vlad Korol, I'm a new developer here tackling KDE Plasma.
This is my first open-source project, and I will be happy to work
along with all of you to make Plasma the default in Linux desktop
experience.
I myself have a mixed background in software engineering and AI/ML as
well. Skilled in C++, Python, Java and JavaScript. Programming for
years, so I know my way around best practices, Cmake and idiomatic
C++, and I'll be glad to learn anything else I will need along the way.
I myself was a year-long KDE user until I bought a new Nvidia GPU.
Unfortunately, it was a miss for me, and I decided to contribute to
improve Wayland sessions under Nvidia drivers. I have tested and
Wayland works on Gnome, so I believe the issue lies in Kwin, composing
and Nvidia GBM quirks. I believe my recent GPU (Nvidia RTX 4070 Super)
will be a great asset for testing current generation Nvidia GPUs and
make KDE Plasma more approachable and deliver "just works" experience.
I didn't look at the codebase yet, and I face difficulties with
building Plasma workspace because of newer dependency, but I have
already opened a bug report, and it will be awesome if you could
review it:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=498018
Other than that, I am learning about the codebase and the contribution
workflow and will be soon making changes.
I use Fedora by the way, the latest Fedora Workstation 41. My
timezone is Eastern European Time (EET). I am happy to meet all of
you, and feel free to drop a message to get to know each other!
