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Ive been wanting to upgrade from Plasma 5 to 6 for some time, but I don't want to manually upgrade, risking breaking everything.

So, does anyone know when they will release Manjaro with KDE Plasma 6?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know

But archinstall now installs KDE 6 correctly. Just saying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

archinstall is the best. I've been using it out of laziness for a while and it's downright amazing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Seems to be on ~~unstable~~ testing, so shouldnt be too long

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It has been on unstable since Arch had it. Unstable is just mirroring Arch repos. So it wouldn't give you any idea of when the update will reach stable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Woops sorry, apparently i meant testing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

testing has it as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Considering the KDE has normally been their flagship edition, I'm wager their working out the final touches.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

What? I've been running it for a while. Wayland was pretty borked (couldn't figure out how to make it not be 640x480!), but then I have an NVidia card and I believe that's standard

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you reset all theming options to default (icons, window decorations, colors, etc), and backup your config files, there should be no issues upgrading to KDE6. Keep in mind though, most themes for KDE5 don't work for 6 unless the author updated, or you're willing to manually modify a couple files. Most icon packs should be available though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

That's something they didn't handle all too well imo. They seem to be able to detect incompatible stuff, so it would have been quite easy to help you clean it up. Finding all the places things are stored after they just disappeared from Settings was a bit of a pain.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Your question is kind of confusing, KDE does not do anything specifically with Manjaro, I assume that Manjaro users have to wait for upstream (Arch BTW) to mark it as stable, so if you keep your eyes peeled for Arch releases of Plasma, I'm sure you'll have an idea of a timeline.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Arch already shipped Plasma 6 for a while. Doesn't translate directly to Manjaro though, due to their different way of handling updates.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Reason why I jumped ship. Manjaro is not Arch. If you want Arch with a GUI installer and nice defaults, go with Endeavour or Cachy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I went with endeavour.

Arch is already on 6.0.4. I'd say we're five weeks into plasma 6. Manjaro is holding it back unusually long.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Tbf, Plasma 6.0.0 was not exactly bug free. Then again, Plasma 6.0.1 was the first release on Arch and for me, it didn't break anything. Only some UI issues and occasional (although never fatal) crashes.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Thanks but nobody asked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

goodluck! hopefully Manjaro won't push another broken package!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

have you done an upgrade?

sudo pacman -Syu

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

What are you doing using a distro thats poorly managed. rofl