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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] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’ve tried running KDE Neon in a VM and it seems that all Plasma 5 widgets and themes aren’t compatible so they don’t show up in search. Kind of a bummer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thats just how it is. There are tons of extensions that also dont work in Plasma5 but its not sorted. There are porting guides for extension developers in the KDE lemmy