KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features

KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-More-Fixes-Plasma-6.2.2

[ktecho]

It's a shame we cannot have more up-to-date Plasma in Ubuntu... I'm having problems with audio devices in 6.1, but I don't know if they've been fixed already in more modern Plasmas.

[BrycensRanch]

You can always try on Fedora KDE, which is much better all around.

[mrg666]

It's a shame we cannot have more up-to-date Plasma in Ubuntu... I'm having problems with audio devices in 6.1, but I don't know if they've been fixed already in more modern Plasmas.

I switched to Fedora for that reason only and I have 6.2.2 currently. Ubuntu is what it is. But it is not a shame. You have options, use them.

[mcloud]

It's a shame we cannot have more up-to-date Plasma in Ubuntu... I'm having problems with audio devices in 6.1, but I don't know if they've been fixed already in more modern Plasmas.

Are sure thats a plama problem? I got weird audio issues too and they were due to the change from pulseaudio to pipewire. The only thing that worked was killing the prior version config file in /etc by hand since there were changes to it and the new package doesn't handle that in the upgrade

[ktecho]

I switched to Fedora for that reason only and I have 6.2.2 currently. Ubuntu is what it is. But it is not a shame. You have options, use them.

Yes, I've been thinking about it recently, but I've been using Ubuntu for more than a decade and I didn't want to learn a new system. And besides that, you always have Ubuntu packages available for software that you want to install, but you don't always have packages for Arch, or other more modern distros.

[ktecho]

Are sure thats a plama problem? I got weird audio issues too and they were due to the change from pulseaudio to pipewire. The only thing that worked was killing the prior version config file in /etc by hand since there were changes to it and the new package doesn't handle that in the upgrade

It has happened to 2 computers in my family. It improves when changing from Wayland to X11 (why?), but it's still not as good as it was before. For example, I haven't had any problem while plugin an external speaker through jack cable, but now I find myself from time to time having to change it manually in the Plasma configuration.

But yeah, I'm not 100% sure it's a Plasma thing, because it happened when I updated from 24.04 to 24.10.

[skeevy420]

Yes, I've been thinking about it recently, but I've been using Ubuntu for more than a decade and I didn't want to learn a new system. And besides that, you always have Ubuntu packages available for software that you want to install, but you don't always have packages for Arch, or other more modern distros.

You can do it. I ran Debian and Ubuntu from around 1999/2000 to 2010, switched to Arch where I ran it until 2016/2017, switched to Manjaro, went back to Arch during COVID, and I've been using CachyOS for the past couple of years. The learning curve isn't that bad and the Arch Wiki really helps.

I left Ubuntu/Debian over older packages and generally bad experiences with distribution updates every six months. More often than not I'd get breakage during the six month updates and would spend a a day or two fixing it. I figured if I'm gonna be dealing with breakage I'd rather deal with one or two packages as the issues occur versus dealing with everything, everywhere, all at once. For me, the former is easier to fix than the latter.

Like the other people here, I'd assume Pulse/Pipe before I would Plasma itself. All the bleeding edge distributions had a few weird issues like that when they made the switch.

[skeevy420]

It has happened to 2 computers in my family. It improves when changing from Wayland to X11 (why?), but it's still not as good as it was before. For example, I haven't had any problem while plugin an external speaker through jack cable, but now I find myself from time to time having to change it manually in the Plasma configuration.

But yeah, I'm not 100% sure it's a Plasma thing, because it happened when I updated from 24.04 to 24.10.

So that still happens 14.5 years later

[Brittle2]

Yes, I've been thinking about it recently, but I've been using Ubuntu for more than a decade and I didn't want to learn a new system. And besides that, you always have Ubuntu packages available for software that you want to install, but you don't always have packages for Arch, or other more modern distros.

Packages are usually available in .deb and .rpm, just use .rpm in fedora