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    Phoronix: This Week In KDE: "Plasma Is Feeling Really Solid These Days!"

    KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekend update that recaps all of the interesting KDE development activities for the past week...

    Phoronix, Linux Hardware Reviews, Linux hardware benchmarks, Linux server benchmarks, Linux benchmarking, Desktop Linux, Linux performance, Open Source graphics, Linux How To, Ubuntu benchmarks, Ubuntu hardware, Phoronix Test Suite

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    Does anyone know when will Plasma 6 end up in Kubuntu? I have to reinstall and I want Plasma 6, but I can wait a little if it's going to be in Kubuntu 24.10 soon...

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    • #3
      Originally posted by ktecho View Post
      Does anyone know when will Plasma 6 end up in Kubuntu? I have to reinstall and I want Plasma 6, but I can wait a little if it's going to be in Kubuntu 24.10 soon...
      If it may help someone: Some people build Plasma 6 (using kdesrc-build or kde-builder).

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      • #4
        Originally posted by ktecho View Post
        Does anyone know when will Plasma 6 end up in Kubuntu? I have to reinstall and I want Plasma 6, but I can wait a little if it's going to be in Kubuntu 24.10 soon...
        At some point in the near future the daily build of Kubuntu 24.10 should receive Plasma 6 https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/daily-live/current/
        But may I ask if there's a specific reason you require Kubuntu? I've been using Fedora 40 KDE even since the Beta to get Plasma 6 as soon as possible and it has been a very solid release. Plus no snap or flatpak unless you add them... 100% native packages.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Nth_man View Post

          If it may help someone: Some people build Plasma 6 (using kdesrc-build or kde-builder).
          I'll give a look, but I guess it's a big project with lots of dependencies and a lot of things can go wrong...

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          • #6
            Originally posted by ktecho View Post
            Does anyone know when will Plasma 6 end up in Kubuntu? I have to reinstall and I want Plasma 6, but I can wait a little if it's going to be in Kubuntu 24.10 soon...
            Their last excuse was that it's not packaged in Debian yet and that's still the case today (EDIT: apparently it's in experimental now. I'm not sure when that happened: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop). I don't know what's keeping them from releasing a backports repo. Is it manpower? If so why does the second most popular desktop environment on Ubuntu have such low resources available? The Ubuntu desktop team managed to ship the latest version of GNOME at the time of release.
            Last edited by ahrs; 03 August 2024, 09:23 AM.

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            • #7
              Tried this plasma 6 mullarky then tripped at one of the first hurdles for me, not being able to install wine. Flatpak, not likely. How can a distro trip up installing wine like this and say its running stable

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              • #8
                Originally posted by ahrs View Post

                Their last excuse was that it's not packaged in Debian yet and that's still the case today (EDIT: apparently it's in experimental now. I'm not sure when that happened: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/plasma-desktop). I don't know what's keeping them from releasing a backports repo. Is it manpower? If so why does the second most popular desktop environment on Ubuntu have such low resources available? The Ubuntu desktop team managed to ship the latest version of GNOME at the time of release.
                Maybe we're near then. I could also change distro, but I think I'm too old to do it now, lol

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Bladeforce View Post
                  Tried this plasma 6 mullarky then tripped at one of the first hurdles for me, not being able to install wine. Flatpak, not likely. How can a distro trip up installing wine like this and say its running stable
                  Sounds like you were using Neon? That's a Neon-specific packaging decision, and doesn't have anything to do with Plasma itself.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by ahrs View Post
                    I don't know what's keeping them from releasing a backports repo. Is it manpower? If so why does the second most popular desktop environment on Ubuntu have such low resources available? The Ubuntu desktop team managed to ship the latest version of GNOME at the time of release.
                    Unfortunately, second biggest doesn't mean anything. Almost all the desktop resources in Canonical go towards GNOME, because that's where the core of their business is.

                    If we want anything to change here, we need to convince Canonical that Plasma is a better fit for them than GNOME is.

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