Hi all!
I have a laptop running Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and I want to switch to KDE Plasma 6.
How should I change over and why?
Option 1: Install KDE Plasma 6 alongside GNOME
Option 2: Backup and fresh install KDE Neon.
Installing 2 DEs alongside will double the amount of apps and can break theming. The choice is yours
Ya that was a concern of mine. Even switching from x11 to Wayland causes scaling and some other features to reset for me.
Have you tried Plasma 6?
Not yet. I’m a GNOME user and I also use Plasma 5 for customization (idk if 6 is compatible with old themes and stuff). Though I want to try it and see if there are any performance improvements
I’ve tried running KDE Neon in a VM and it seems that all Plasma 5 widgets and themes aren’t compatible so they don’t show up in search. Kind of a bummer.
I’m under the impression that you currently can’t install plasma 6 on Ubuntu, as the repos aren’t available yet. That would make option 2 the only possible option.
You’re right. Upon further research I found that Plasma 6 is only available on specific distros but apparently it’s still quite buggy.
It seems to be buggy on Neon, which is based on Ubuntu. I would give Fedora Kinoite a try, on a second disk install Fedora Kinoite prerelease and wait until Fedora 40 comes out.
I’ve managed to switch from GNOME to KDE, removing GNOME afterwards, and it was quite painless.
KDE 6 isn’t available yet, though. The first one to get the new KDE is the distro it’s made for, so Arch, I think. Everyone else gotta wait, and it could be a while.
