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KDE Plasma 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 released (kde.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today the KDE Community is announcing a new najor release of Plasma 6.0, and Gear 24.02. KDE Plasma is a modern, feature-rich desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems. Known for its sleek design, customizable interface, and extensive set of applications, it is also open source, devoid of ads, and makes protecting your privacy and personal data a priority.

With Plasma 6, the technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of the application framework, Qt 6, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland. They will continue providing support for the legacy X11 session for users who prefer to stick with it for now. The new version brings the new windows and desktop overview, improved colour management, a cleaner theme, more effects, better overall performance, and much more.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How long until this trickles down into the major distros?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

It will reach Slackware about 6 months before the heat death of the universe.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Fedora 40 (April) should have it I think

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's currently in Arch Testing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's not hard to install from testing actually, may give it a shot..

[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (4 children)

However, one should first read through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/official_repositories#Testing_repositories and consider whether it is really worth the risk.

For my part, I will simply wait until Plasma 6 arrives in the official package sources.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I hope it's quick. Really fun upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

If I had to guess, I would say that the updates to Plasma 6 will be offered at the end of the week or in the course of next week. But I'm not an Arch developer, so that's really a guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I tried it, but it didn't let me use X11 so I switched back, and the downgrade wrecked my system so incredibly badly that I'm currently trying to restore from a backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

For my part, I will simply wait until Plasma 6 arrives in the official package sources.

Same. And then I wait a day or two to see if there are any major issues. I do the same for Nvidia updates. I mean I could also just roll back if anything happens, but why bother?

[–] Tja 1 points 8 months ago

For my part, I'm waiting until it arrives in the official repos, plus a few months.

I still have nightmares from the mess of early KDE 5 times.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

It's just been merged to master for NixOS. Next stable would be 24.05

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/286522
https://nixpk.gs/pr-tracker.html?pr=286522