KDE Neon Rebased To Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now Official

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Neon Rebased To Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Now Official

Since the start of August KDE Neon re-based to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been in testing while now this re-base is official...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Neon-Ubuntu-18.04-Official

[tuke81]

Good, now that linux mint kde is gone this is decent replacement for it.

[Guest]

(immediately starts formatting the Kubuntu 18.04 partition)

[Aiua]

Neon is great, until you need 32bits support for gaming.
Since they only update the 64bits library, that causes conflicts when you need the 32bits ones. So I had to revert to Kubuntu.

[mzs.112000]

Neon is great, until you need 32bits support for gaming.
Since they only update the 64bits library, that causes conflicts when you need the 32bits ones. So I had to revert to Kubuntu.

One would think that valve/Steam would update to not require 32-bit libraries by now, unless installing on a 32-bit CPU with a 32-bit distro...

[R41N3R]

Any news regarding the switch to Wayland by default in Neon?

[calc]

Neon is great, until you need 32bits support for gaming.
Since they only update the 64bits library, that causes conflicts when you need the 32bits ones. So I had to revert to Kubuntu.

Do you mean 32bit Qt/KDE specific libraries?

Because otherwise Neon uses the standard Ubuntu libraries for everything else.

3rd party software really shouldn't be linking to lots of higher level system libraries anyway.

[misp]

How does it take 6months for neon to rebase, while kubuntu does it for every release?

[Aiua]

One would think that valve/Steam would update to not require 32-bit libraries by now, unless installing on a 32-bit CPU with a 32-bit distro...

I think it was for the Blizzard app.

Do you mean 32bit Qt/KDE specific libraries?

Because otherwise Neon uses the standard Ubuntu libraries for everything else.

3rd party software really shouldn't be linking to lots of higher level system libraries anyway.

I don't remember which library it was exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was not a Qt or KDE lib, probably one of their dependencies that they had to update.

[Aiua]

How does it take 6months for neon to rebase, while kubuntu does it for every release?

Different priorities, and probably manpower too.