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Critical Intel Graphics Driver Bug Puts KDE Plasma 5 in a Really Bad Light

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Marius Nestor
Aug 5, 2015

We all know that there are numerous complains all over the Internet about how buggy the KDE Plasma 5 desktop environment is, something that we can also confirm from our readers over Google+ and Twitter social networks. Well, apparently, KDE Plasma 5 runs just fine, and the issue is related to a serious Intel graphics stack bug that crashes KDE Plasma 5 and other OpenGL applications. Numerous distributions of Linux are affected, so here’s the workaround until Intel fixes the issue.
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Marius Nestor

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