looking around online it seems possible but apparently not a good experience? i think the posts were a bit old so maybe something has changed since then

Edit: i don’t want to hop distro, i just want to change the desktop manager.

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    7·
    19 days ago

    No, they base on Ubuntu LTS and that has an outdated and broken version of Plasma, just like Kubuntu has.

    I only recommend to use Plasma on Fedora Kinoite as I dont know other OSses. But I assume Arch and Opensuse Tumbleweed are also okay.

    KDE doesnt do stable releases, they release when it is ready. And distro maintainers would need to backport all the fixes in Plasma 6 to Plasma 5 and to my knowledge nobody does that.

    Qt5 is also not supported anymore, so you are running a desktop that had backported fixes to Qt from the KDE team even before Plasma 6 came out.

    Plasma 6 is way more robust than Plasma 5. It just works way better. I use it daily, and can really really recommend Fedora Kinoite.

    • peanutbutter_gas@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      Can confirm Arch (at least EndeavourOS), KDE Plasma has been working here since Jan 2023 ( when I installed the OS). It worked for me on Manjaro from 2021-2023 (another Arch based distro).

      • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
        1·
        17 days ago

        Yeah but it is really opinionated, give it a try and it is likely good.

        But tbh uBlue may work better out of the box, but they are changing fast. They introduced nix which was broken and then removed and I still have these strange users left.

        They had nokmods images which were kinda vanilla, but just discontinued these images and made the main images the replacement (even though these use kmods).

        They nuked their image list site so apart from the flagship variants, all the others are hidden. Even though they are based off Fedora so at least the KDE and GNOME ones are just as good to use.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    1·
    19 days ago

    I did it soon after switching to Linux Mint from Windows because I didn’t like how Cinnamon was handling multiple displays. It worked and was perfectly functional. But it was a little rough around the edges with the occasional glitch here and there. Not sure if it was because Mint wasn’t really meant to run Plasma or if it was just because it was running an older version of Plasma. But it was perfectly usable and I would have been happy to stick with it if there were no other solutions.

    Before I got too comfy in my Mint install and after having familiarized myself with Linux better, I hopped between a few distros for a bit. LMDE6 with Plasma ran better but ultimately I switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and stuck with it since then. It is rock solid and runs Plasma 6. I should probably have given EndeavourOS a try as well but I’m now too settled and comfy to change.

    Mind you, I am still a complete Linux noob and still have barely any idea of what I am doing so take it with a grain of salt.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    0·
    19 days ago

    The only thing “bad” about it would be that you’ll need to start with a default KDE configuration (which is still very clean and pretty), but since KDE is very customizable, it should not be that much of an issue.

    I love KDE (which has technically rebranded to “Plasma”), and it’s a great experience. If you’re worried, go find a distro like Bazzite or Garuda and install whichever version has Plasma in a Virtual Machine to see what it’s like. That way, you can decide what you think about it.