It's really cool, but my sddm theme is now broken :'(
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Well, wasnt it already there like a week ago? Or was that only because I'm on testing repos?
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My body is ready
Mmm first releases! Working from home, its nearly close of play. I know ... I'll update my work laptop.
OK I now have LXDE for a fall back WM so I can read stuff rather more easily than using links in a TTY and switched out SDDM for LightDM - I needed sddm-git to get LXDE to start up. SDDM now simply crashes and dumps core - no idea why. Oh and I have switched to Wayland because X11 no longer works for me. I might put off updating the wife's laptop for a while, at least until I've done my work desktop 8)
I must say its all rather pretty and smooth. Scrolling now has drag and acceleration, which is nice. I'm sure I'll get KRDC to talk to the sodding wallet so my 100s of RDP connections will work again. For now I'll call xfreerdp from the konsole. Perhaps I'll get around to configuring KeePassXC and get around to using that instead. I share several rather large .kdbx with the rest of the firm.
Finally my qt6 apps have a consistent theme!
Didn't realize this was happening and yay -Syu went brrr and it broke my shit. Probably doesn't help that I'm running nvidia with linux (endeavouros). Wayland doesn't work at all (black screen on login with only mouse ptr, wrong resolution), while Xorg is now much less smooth e.g. on the switching desktop animations. Moving windows around and in-window graphics are fine. Some graphical config stuff changed too; I'm still taking inventory.
I'm also currently playing with nvidia vs nvidia-dkms with different kernels to see if that solves anything.
EDIT: Looks like that my configuration was failing to set nvidia_drm modeset=1 correctly due to my unfamiliarity with dracut. Manually adding nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to my kernel cmdline makes Wayland work (and quite well at that), though Xorg is still laggy.
On rolling release distros you should always read (or at least skim) over what's being updated and if it may impact you.
Oh absolutely, I don't blame KDE or arch repos lol. I did see that it was a KDE update but somehow didn't clock the version number. I had it in my head that KDE6 was much farther off.
Sorry to hear that. Also on EOS and it is working great.
Kvantum blur is broken :(
I realisad when I was trying to install a package, I don't remember what package I wanted to install.
Pulseaudio-qt?
I had to switch back to an x11 session because a lot of stuff is broken in Wayland for me. I was having a lot of flickering in slack and odd mouse issues in games.
I know my opinion will not be popular there but that's what I love about Manjaro: they won't rush the upgrade. I can wait for a couple of months, no worries.
Same here! Been using manjaro for more than 5 years by now on all my dev machines and I really like not being overrun by updates.
Once you form the habit of checking latest "stable update" forum thread (the eqivalent of checking the arch frontpage before an upgrade) and check for potential "manual interventions" (if any), then it gives you suprisingly good stability. But it's still rolling release and "pretty current".
And stability simply becomes more of a factor once your metaphorical "plate" becomes choke full and the last thing you want from your underlying OS is to act up on its own due to an update.
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