There’s also a very good chance that early Half-Life2: Episode 3 builds are in there, but at the time of writing, nobody has found anything related to the legendary sequel that never came. There’s 12 TB after all, so it’s going to take a long time for the community to sift through all the data and work out what it all means.

In other words, this headline is pure speculative click bait.

work on x11 stopped ages ago.

The most recent release was last week.

https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2026-August/003741.html

I really want something that’s going to be no-fuss, solid as a rock and that’s simply going to get out of my way.

That would be Debian Stable. I’m using it with KDE Plasma (6.3.6), and am pretty happy with it. (I also applied a few backports for gaming and software development, but that was easy.)

Is there something about newer Plasma versions that you absolutely must have right now, rather than living with 6.3.x until next year?