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Hi all!

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and I want to switch to KDE Plasma 6.

How should I change over and why?

Option 1: Install KDE Plasma 6 alongside GNOME

Option 2: Backup and fresh install KDE Neon.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m under the impression that you currently can’t install plasma 6 on Ubuntu, as the repos aren’t available yet. That would make option 2 the only possible option.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’re right. Upon further research I found that Plasma 6 is only available on specific distros but apparently it’s still quite buggy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It seems to be buggy on Neon, which is based on Ubuntu. I would give Fedora Kinoite a try, on a second disk install Fedora Kinoite prerelease and wait until Fedora 40 comes out.