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Switching from GNOME to Plasma 6 on Ubuntu - what makes the most sense? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's your hardware? Is Ubuntu your only option? Are you wanting to just drive KDE to see what it's about? Are virtual machines an option?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Framework laptop with an AMD chip. I’ve tried Arch, Fedora, and some Debian based distros. Was trying out Neon in a VM but I noticed a lot of things (like theming) wasn’t compatible with the latest KDE version.