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With only 91 days left before launch, today we are releasing the 1st Beta of Plasma 6.

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/

This is the time when we call on all testers to download and install it, and stress-test all its features.

#Plasma6 #testing #beta

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

WARNING: This is #betasoftware, lots of things are untested and can fail. We strongly recommend you do NOT use it in a production environments. The Beta release should only be used for testing and reporting bugs.

https://bugs.kde.org

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Neon Unstable Edition is already ready with the updates,

https://neon.kde.org/download

but other unstable repositories of other distros will soon be available too. Look out for openSUSE, Arch, Kubuntu, Fedora, and more.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Remember you can help support KDE by becoming a Supporting Member:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

Or by donating to our community:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

#donations

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

On the one hand, eeeeeeee it’s plasma 6, gotta get the beta.

On the other hand, I can’t brick my Linux install otherwise I’m screwed (running fedora asahi, btrfs on 16k page size causes severe limitations when it comes to getting files out of a system)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do not try this on your production computer unless it is on another partition or virtual machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

You should probs not flash it on your main machine

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

@Kidplayer_666 @WeLoveCastingSpellz Create a btrfs snapshot of your current install. You can just revert if something breaks. Or doesn't this work on Asahi yet?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

No idea to be completely honest. Gotta read the goddamn manual…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What feature are you waiting for?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

More panel customizations,also the change to QT6

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] can't wait until my framework laptop arrives 2024 Q1 and I can install arch with plasma 6 on it

[–] Perroboc 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Can I just enable the KDE-unstable repo in arch and test?

EDIT: Yes, just follow the wiki and reboot!

HDR (for games) here we gooo

Edit 2: Ok, gotta wait a bit more for the great work of Zamundaaa to be merged. Can't wait!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Let's hope the HDR is better than Windows the last time I tried it.

[–] Perroboc 7 points 11 months ago

Not just yet! For now only the desktop has HDR gamma and color settings, don’t expect more than that until more patches arrive.

And I understand that, at least in this first release, the objective is to have gaming hdr, not movies nor images…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

dont seem to get the new build. did you do anything exept adding the repo in pacman.conf

[–] Perroboc 1 points 11 months ago

Make sure you follow the wiki: you need to put the repo at the top of the list!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if I can get my hands on this beta on NixOS. Anybody know of a flake or overlay?

Edit: I found a flake! Testing it now.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@baduhai @kde I can see a flake listed here among options for other distributions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I also eventually came across the link.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Long live KDE! You guys are my heros.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] i really hope the Wideness and Bigness of thigns are customizable

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Will KDE Neon Testing Edition get the update, too?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected]
i am into it .. looks awesome so far!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] can I remove all the round corners?

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