I’m happy to report that after updating to version 166, the issue almost disappeared! Image posts flicker no more!
Only flickering I’m experiencing is with community/user icons, and this does affect all views. But that’s such a small bug that I wouldn’t consider it as high priority…
(Image posts flickering itself was in my opinion a huge deal, especially for people suffering from epilepsy etc.)
I’ve bought it myself and I personally don’t care about the optimizations + developers warned about it a few times. Still a lot of people get mad and I’m not sure why.
I do agree, and I’ve never said that. All I’m saying is that Plasma Wayland on laptops is for many people pain to use (and it looks like many agree with me here too).
I do believe that this should be resolved as Plasma 6 is shifting towards Wayland-first approach, and this would annoy most laptop users.
I do not know about any workarounds but you might have more luck searching for one.
As for other issues, someone mentioned in the issue that the “Disable touchpad while typing” is broken on Wayland too; however both of these issues are not present on X11. Only other issue I’m having is kde daemon crashing while running pacman -Syu inside Konsole (see this link). Other than that, I was with Plasma more than happy and had no other issues.
You don’t wanna e.g. download more RAM? Well your bad, thanks to this product I have 128 TB of memory on my Xiaomi laptop and it keeps getting bigger! Plus, I have a guaranteed upgrade to Windows, 12, 13 and 14 too!