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[-] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago

For those who use Wayland and autostart, don't forget to edit

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

from KDE5: Session=plasmawayland

to Plasma6: Session=plasma

to confirm the exact name, check what is available under /usr/share/wayland-sessions/

if you're stuck, try pacman -Q | grep -i kde and pacman -Q | grep -i plasma and remove everything related, then fresh install plasma-meta or plasma group and it should work

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the heads-up!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Installed and donated 50 dollars. Anyone else donated?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Where did you place the donation?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

After install there was a window saying it's plasma 6 now and it was linking to the donation web page:

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

Such a polished release. Seems to run smoother and faster.

The hdr support really is making games and movies look superb also.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Do you know what games support HDR? I am itching to finally try this out.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I don't but for me the monitor supported hdr appearently, which was a bit of a surprise.

When I clicked that button, all colors really stood out. Havent seen Linux look that good before. It's tiring for the eyes when doing ordinary work but nice when gaming.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

they waited until the first minor version which fixed already some bugs as expected
pretty nice release

[-] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For those who use Wayland, don't forget to edit

/etc/sddm.conf.d/kde_settings.conf

from KDE5: Session=plasmawayland

to Plasma6: Session=plasma

to confirm the exact name, check what is available under /usr/share/wayland-sessions/

if you're stuck, try pacman -Q | grep -i kde and pacman -Q | grep -i plasma and remove everything related + remove orphans , then fresh install plasma-meta or plasma group and it should work

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

got to say, the update went smoothly and didn't need to touch any configs.

Feels quite a bit smoother than the KDE 5 on this aging hardware (i5-2320, igpu, 16GB ram, sata ssd). <3

I can now even "alt-tab" backwards with shift! That just didn't work previously!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Just finished the update, went surprisingly smoothly for me! I had to reconnect the wifi and it's caused a few minor theme/widget issues (which I was fully expecting) but overall I was basically fully back to running normally in like half an hour or so.

It actually resolved a couple of minor theme issues somehow too, so that's a bonus!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh weird I googled it and I thought it was canceled /s

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm scared it will break something if I update

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

You always have to be prepared for that. This is Arch.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Not using KDE right now; but I'm happy to see that there's finally an official Breeze theme for Qt6 apps.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

My only complaint so far is my fonts are all messed up because they removed the "Force DPI" setting completely but I managed to make it good enough by just making the fonts bigger. The UI doesn't scale with it, but at least it works and it's sharp.

I tried scaling at 120% and 125% and the sizing is good but the fonts are super blurry to the point it's more readable at 100% with no other changes, same as it's always been really.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Lots of small but annoying issues here. Nothing that really makes my desktop unusable, but hunting down plasma settings was not how I imagined spending my evening. So far not too impressed...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Judging from all the comments here,it's better to wait a couple of days,or wait for 6.0.1 (but that would be too long for me).

I want plasma 6 goodness,but patience is a virtue.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

or wait for 6.0.1

Kinda looks like that already happened https://archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/plasma/ - basically everything is version 6.0.1

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not surprised. Thanks. Upgrading...

[-] [email protected] -2 points 4 months ago

Another adventurer that updated to plasma 6 and the worst thing I noticed is the performance, this new plasma 6 is worst than version 5 on this aspect by now. I hope with the time it been solved

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