• kadu@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    My desire to remain in a frozen-release stable distro conflicts with my desire to follow KDE’s bleeding edge development

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      7 months ago

      Yea the hype train is real on that one :)

      I solve that the following way:

      On my private machine, I use arch with the newest features.

      Work related I am using debian testing on the laptop. The packages are not the newest but I know everything is stable and upades are not in my way. (KDE 6 will arrive there late summer)

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      7 months ago

      Have you heard of KDE Neon? Wikipedia says:

      KDE neon is a Linux distribution developed by KDE based on Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, bundled with a set of additional software repositories containing the latest versions of the Plasma 6 desktop environment/framework, Qt 6 toolkit and other compatible KDE software.

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        7 months ago

        I would not recommend KDE Neon. Qt applications (like Calibre) sometimes have problems because they’re taken from Ubuntu(?) repos but Neon ships their own Qt libs which can cause conflicts.

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    7 months ago

    Anyone notice non-obvious Wayland road blocks?

    I think the last thing keeping me on X11 is window shade.

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      Mine is that the “fake session restore” hasn’t landed yet (it will in 6.1) so the half-dozen konsole and dolphin windows I tend to leave open between reboots don’t re-open after rebooting under Wayland.

      The reason it’s called “fake session restore” is that the Wayland session restore protocol isn’t finalized, so as a temporary workaround Plasma on Wayland will re-launch the applications and leave it up to the individual programs to restore their last state.

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      7 months ago

      For some reason when i use Wayland it shows weird artifacts on the bottom of my screen. Doesn’t happen on X11 so I’ll stick with that until it gets fixed

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            Definitely needs a bug report.
            I recommend go into Wayland and use hw-probe and run :
            sudo -E hw-probe -all -upload -dump-acpi -decode-acpi
            And use the given link in your BR.
            Try to force the bug, and take a screenshot or if it doesn’t show up in the screenshot take a picture with your phone and mention it doesn’t show up in screenshots.
            If you’re able to consistently reproduce the bug include how.
            Make the BR to Kwin.

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      7 months ago

      Not really. I was a heavy critic of the state kde was in because of fractional scalling sucking a lot, but I’ve been using it on 2 pcs and am now pretty happy. Does everything I need it to.

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    7 months ago

    Tried the live CD of KDE Neon last night to test the HDR support. Couldn’t find a way to enable it. Windows? Just flip a switch…