I’m feeling this. My day today was roont by plasma 6. I still can’t unlock any LUKS usb drives with dolphin.
I understand it won’t be trivial but I wonder if, theoretically, a team can ship & maintain a KDE 6 “flatpak” or “snap”
I mean in technical terms, not that they would with the non technical mistakes Ubuntu keeps doing.
I can’t see the point in that? Certain tools could work fine, but the actual desktop environment? It’d be running in a sandbox and would need to be given access to everything to function presumably. The various tools need to communicate with each other and the X11 or Wayland composite. So the flatpak container would just be overhead with a lot of duplication of system libraries? I’m not even sure it’s possible but I don’t know enough of the limitations of flatpak.
It’s an interesting idea to test and play wth but I can’t see it as an actual viable means of distribution.
If you wanted to play with plasma 6 then Virtual box and KDE Neon or Arch would be the way, and would negate the work needed to to get it working via flatpak. So I guess what would be the benefit for anyone to build and test it via flatpak even if for feasible?
I mean as you can use far newer KDE applications on Debian stable via Flatpak, it may serve the same purpose contained in a separate tree without changing the core OS.
I guess distrobox+neon would work fine yes. I just wondered the state of Flatpak with the recent changes.
But why would you choose a distro like debian if you wanted the newest untested shit?
You’d do much better with Fedora, Arch or other hasty adopter
Made the switch on EndeavourOS this morning and so far so good. I was hesitant to update to Wayland because I’m still a newb and heard there were issues, but my system is AMD based so no problems (yet).
I like it
I think most people complaining about Wayland nowadays are just Nvidia users. I don’t have any problems with it on my AMD GPU.
My biggest issue with wayland was screensharing on Discord, but plasma 6 fixed that with xwaylandvideobridge
I’ve been using Wayland as a daily driver for a few years now, and I’d say it’s ready for 98% of use cases
Currently running endeavour and having fun with the update.
Arch users are late to the party. NixOS had plasma 6 the same day as the release.
Joke’s on you! My configuration is so borked that I’m afraid to upgrade!
Rolling release?
I want revolving release, every one is a russian roulette to destroy my system
Welcome to Manjaro.
can’t understand how manjaro is still alive, given how much better endeavouros configures the system
Maybe because many website still give recommendations who newbie in arch or Linux distro
Don’t believe it ?? Try googling itDamn MX Linux
I haven’t tried endeavor is yet. In what ways is it better than Manjaro?
in my experience manjaro install had a weird unnecessary customizations in terms of configuring things. Applications broke more often and it was harder to apply common fixes. Not very beginner-friendly because of that. Endeavor results in a much cleaner and simpler install
Yeah, no idea. EOS is much better in every single way.
Will seems like arch users stereotype but i don’t need software im not gonna use
My experience since I began using Linux full time for my main desktop, chronologically: Manjaro, Kubuntu, Debian stable, Debian testing, endeavourOS. Started EOS a week ago and I was shocked by how well everything worked out of the box. A bunch of things I had to tweak and fix before, like messing with NVIDIA drivers among other things, just worked perfectly out of the box. I tried it on a lark after borking something on my Debian system, kinda reluctantly since I had already made a massive script for customizing my Debian based KDE installs, but in the end I didn’t even feel like I needed it because it all just worked fine without all my scripted workarounds for everything. Really impressed. I just got the plasma 6 update a couple of hours ago and it’s mostly fine, dealing with a couple of issues before deciding whether I hit that timeshift restore and wait some more
If system-breaking updates ship to consumers, the QA system doesn’t work.
openSUSE TW is rolling release and their openQA system is extremely robust.
Yoy made my day
Arch users whenever they update
Ironic that this image does not load for me
Works on my PC
Btw I use Arch
same using alexandrite
yay
That but add an -Syu at the end.
No need for that, why typing useless letters?
Why use many words when few words do trick?
I think I never waited so long for so few pixels outside or Reddit.
Awwww my GUI stopped working again after an update
This is more accurate
In a way, Squidward is really like Debian, if those two are Arch and NixOS. And as I grow older, I can relate to Squidward more and more…
Come to the dark side, join the sid.
no thanks, I reached the point in my life where I prefer stability, especially with my main machine. I love Debian, only because it’s Debian. 💛
Seriously. LTS for life.
What distros have more up to date packages than Debian but aren’t as bleeding edge as arch? I’m looking for an in between.
Fedora is great. Heavily modded distros like Nobara is awesome too specifically for gaming but for privacy I recommend doing a thorough look over.
opensuse tumbleweed
Debian Testing or openSuse Tumbleweed
Actually, I enjoy not having to rush to reconfigure my DE
Apparently the upgrade (including configuration) is incredibly smooth. Those interested in tinkering with the vanilla experience have had to install it in a VM.
I’m on KDE Arch and switched about a week ago. I have an Nvidia card and went straight from x11 to Wayland plasma 6. It’s definitely prettier and smoother, but it’s absolutely not as stable. Idk if that’s an Nvidia things, a Wayland thing, or a plasma 6 thing, but I definitely have fairly consistent display issues after switching. I have a btrfs snapshot from right before I updated that’s at plasma 5, so I have a fallback if I want it. It’s mostly just an inconvenience right now, so I’ll probably just ride it out for a while and see if things improve.
Nvidia hates users. Nvidia, fuck you
It’s definitely Wayland on Nvidia, I had the same issues, Element had a flickering black screen. Switching the default session from Wayland to X11 fixed all issues.
From my experience it happens with any XWayland window that fails to hit your display refresh rate. Makes programs such as vscode or element almost impossible to use on high Hz screens, as their max fps is locked to 60.
Other stable relase distro users who got it backported to them: :3
I just applied the update to my old laptop that has been kickin KDE on Arch for a while now. The only thing I noticed was it took longer to load the desktop the first time, my theme was broken but everything was fine when I selected the default dark theme. The fonts look different but otherwise its the same as it ever was
