[Introduction] Vlad, new aspiring contributor to KDE Plasma

[Justin Zobel]

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!