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Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)
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From their repo:

Plasma Login

Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).

What we want

  • Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
  • Keyboard layout switching
  • Virtual keyboards
  • Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
  • Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
  • Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
  • Deeper Plasma integration including:
    • Display and keyboard brightness control
    • Full power management
    • Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
    • Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

So it's just like any other update through Discover? Or do I need to download the new release ISO and update it old school?

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

in-place upgrades are fine for just about any contemporary, mainstream Linux distro. You may find this experience to be more robust than on windows.

I believe you can also upgrade via separate installation media, but you won't find yourself needing to.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Awesome, sounds as seamless as the rest of the OS

[-] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 2 points 1 month ago

I upgraded from 42 to 43 through discover. I think that and terminal are the recommended methods, according to the docs. If you do it with ISO it writes over the root partition and keeps all other partitions and volumes.

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