Fedora Kinoite Nightly available with Plasma 6 to test!

Pantherina@feddit.de to Linux@lemmy.ml – 58 points –
Kinoite Nightly images with Plasma 6
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Thanks to the packaging efforts of the members of the KDE SIG (especially Alessandro Astone, Justin Zobel and Steve Cossette), we now have enough updated packages in Fedora to create Fedora Kinoite nightly images with KDE Plasma 6.

You can try it in a VM or even on your normal install, pin your current version first to have a backup

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Niceeeee! I've tested a few KF6 apps in a rawhide+nightly copr distrobox on Kinoite, and they're quick

What are the big changes from KDE 5 -> 6?

Definitely the transition from QT5 to QT6. It Looks identical, but has better wayland support and performance.

There are also a few new and hot features which I can't recount at the moment (it's 4:30 in the morning), but the pointieststick blog should have the droids you're searching for

I got a stick with Neon unstable on it, and so far the experience is pretty damn good. Haven’t tried anything gaming related, but the shell itself is functioning really well. The only thing that’s straight up not working is Discover, but when did it, really

Its always changing. When I rebooted the VM into the nightly kinoite image it was completely messed up graphically. Lets see. Its alpha alpha