We know from Nvidia developers that they have already implemented the protocol into their driver and that it will be present in the next release. This is exactly the same situation as with the rest of the stack, the only difference is that we don't have access to git builds since it's proprietary.
Maybe Iām a bit anal but it really does just sound like what we already knew.
Iāve used KDE Neon for a while as a typical end user and it works solidly. You get the nice upgrade cadence for the kernel and software, but rolling release for the one thing I care about in my distro - the desktop!
I will say, that if they donāt want to encourage people using KDE Neon as end users (I think itās just a disclaimer but whatever) I wouldnāt ship it as the default distro for the KDE Slimbook; which is marketed at end users!
Yep, definitely what we already knew. Iām surprised to hear itās the default on the Slimbooks actually; that sounds like exactly what they were trying to avoid with the way they pitched Neon.
I agree on Neon being great, I love KDEās pace of updates. I read Nateās blog every week religiously. Iām spoiled to the AUR these days, though. Just for that I canāt go back to non-arch based distro. Been rocking Manjaro and have the least headaches out of anything Iāve tried.
Iāve been daily driving it for years now. There have been a couple of issues during the Wayland transition which were fixed by unplugging and replugging a monitor but itās just been really good.
Beats Kubuntu I guess, although I never really understood Neonās appeal besides being a testbed. As far as ārollingā distros go, I think there are many alternatives that are more rolling and less rocky - as evidenced by the almost flawless transition from Plasma 5 to 6.0.1 on Arch. I also want to point to Sparky Linuxās āsemi-rollingā release as a fantastic alternative based on Debianās testing repos.
iirc Neon started by Kubuntu developers as a way to install the latest Plasma on top of current Ubuntu release. And if this is the case then itās not really started as a distro the way Linux Mint or Bodhi Linux mesnt to be.
But as time progress, if Neon started contributing fixes to upstream in this case Ubuntu, and as well as implemeting changes such as using deb version of Firefox instead of Snap then Neon project is so much more than just an effort to package the latest KDE for Ubuntu, hence a distro terms suits them better in my opinion.
Regarding Plasma 6. I tried Neon live session and was surprised by the smoothness that made possible probably because of the Wayland transition, animation feels smooth and laptop fan did not even kicked in, but what i really like so far is the window scaling, i can set it to 125% or 150% and it does not seems like a hack. About the instability issues, its probably that i did not play with the live session long enough but my session is without a crash.
iirc Neon started by Kubuntu developers as a way to install the latest Plasma on top of current Ubuntu release.
Just for clarification: It was started by Kubuntu developers who were ousted by Canonical after Canonical in all seriousness stated that their license on top of the existing FOSS licenses somehow trumps those FOSS licenses, mot notable the GPL. Canonicalās license says that binaries compiled by Canonical can only be redistributed after getting permission by them which is nothing but a GPL violation. The Kubuntu developers said publicly that Kubuntu respects the GPL and obviously that part of the Canonical license is void.
Canonical kicked them out and replaced them with more subservient people. Canonical later changed their license to say that the original FOSS license takes precedence, that means everyone creating an Ubuntu derivative must still get permission by Canonical to redistribute binaries compiled from MIT-/BSD-licensed sources.
The former Kubuntu people then did their own thing. It is and never has been clear why upstream KDE had to be the new home for them. IMO itās wrong that upstream KDE gives special treatment to Ubuntu, even moreso with Canonicalās shenanigans around pushing Snap.
Itās interesting theyāre changing the pitch from āeveryday userā to āKDE enthusiast.ā
I definitely daily drove it for several years, and we even used it as our defacto developer distro at a previous job. It didnāt seem to be too bad for that purpose.
Maybe not, but it sure feels bait-and-switch-esque. I suppose if thatās really what KDE Neon has morphed into/is targeting now, itās better to be honest.
Nateās blog has been really encouraging people to submit bug reports. So I think the goal of Neon is to have the bleeding edge KDE with a stable base, to rule out confounding factors as much as possible. I donāt think itās a bait-and-switch since the product hasnāt changed. Theyād probably just really rather it be used for people willing to submit bug reports.
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