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submitted 10 months ago by kde@floss.social to c/kde@lemmy.kde.social

Plasma 6 Beta 2 released! We are nearly there, but more testing needed.

Just in time for the Winter Holidays πŸŽ„, Happy New Beta πŸŽ‰!

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta2/

After this second Beta, there will be two Release Candidates, one on the 10th and the other on the 31st of January. All these releases are **not** final, they are for testing and should not be used in production...

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6

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[-] kde@floss.social 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

... But many people are confirming that the current version is already very mature and quite stable. Ultimately it is your choice. Use at your own risk -- and report all those bugs to

https://bugs.kde.org

The final release is only 10 weeks away!

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

[-] kde@floss.social 13 points 10 months ago

You can also help us reach our supporting membership goal! We only need 20 more sign-ups to reach our first goal:

https://kde.org/fundraisers/plasma6member/

If you would prefer a one-off donation or more options, check out:

https://kde.org/community/donations/

https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2022/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

[-] zak@lemmy.kde.social 10 points 10 months ago

Simply wanna say how stoked I am to try this once it hits Arch, out of beta. Been following the development of this via Nicco Loves Linux on YouTube, and the hype has only continued to build. Let's go!

[-] vaseline@hachyderm.io 2 points 10 months ago

@zak @kde kde unstable on arch has been working beautifully. Some errors happen. I expect the submitted reports are useful for making the release perfect.

[-] Fal@yiffit.net 1 points 10 months ago

I've been using it on arch. Works pretty good

[-] mdwalters@uwu.social 4 points 10 months ago
[-] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, floating panels were added in Plasma 5.25.

[-] mdwalters@uwu.social 1 points 10 months ago

@leopold correct me if i'm wrong but wasn't 5.15 the last 5.* release

[-] leopold@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 10 months ago

No, the last was 5.27.

[-] phoenix@chaos.social 3 points 10 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social That is so cool!! Cannot wait to get my hands on it πŸ˜ƒ

[-] beepcheck@fosstodon.org 2 points 10 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social is it possible to install alongside plasma 5?

I'm happy to test but would love it if I could keep my daily driver setup as well.

[-] d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz 2 points 10 months ago

Unlikely. Best option would be to it in a VM, or install a second distro to your drive and upgrade it to Plasma 6.

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah.... Dual boot.

[-] beepcheck@fosstodon.org 1 points 10 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social i downloaded the KDE Neon ISO and have it running in a VM.

so far, many bug reports sent out!

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

If I want a Debian based distro with the latest stable plasma, which one would you recommend?

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 4 points 10 months ago

Hmm, if you count something based on Ubuntu as being Debian based (some people do, some people don't) then I believe that is exactly what KDE Neon is supposed to be!

[-] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Hmm.. does it have any telemetry? I'm worried about user data collection. I know Ubuntu has that. It's fairly easy to remove but I'd rather not have it to begin with.

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 3 points 10 months ago

That I'm not sure of unfortunately. From the Plasma side of things I know telemetry has always been specifically opt-in, but I don't know whether KDE Neon has the canonical telemetry disabled out of the box (my gut instinct says it would be disabled, but I have zero proof of this).

[-] stevecrox@mastodonapp.uk 0 points 10 months ago

@cyborganism @kde Debian

The last stable release supplies 5.27.

[-] Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

It looks awesome! I admire your work and dedication, KDE guys!

[-] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 2 points 10 months ago

Just updated my Arch laptop to Beta 2 this morning. Can't wait to use it much more later. :)

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 10 months ago

Looks great! February can't get here any quicker!

[-] Zenix@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Those wallpapers are part of plasma 6?

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Isn't it disorienting to have the wallpaper change every 2 seconds?

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 7 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it is only configured like that to show off the new wallpaper through the video. I don't think I've ever seen a distro ship KDE with a rotating wallpaper (its always a static one, whether its KDE's main wallpaper, or the distro's selected wallpaper).

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 5 points 10 months ago

You can have a wallpaper slideshow. That said, the default is a change every 10 minutes and not every 2 seconds like here. But as we don't know the final winner of the wallpaper contests yet, we decided to run through the six finalists (which we do know and are public).

[-] Bro666@lemmy.kde.social 4 points 10 months ago

However, let me show you something that is a builtin to the Plasma wallpaper feature:

https://mastodon.social/@linux_spain/111615371870942890

[-] russjr08@bitforged.space 2 points 10 months ago

Oh that's pretty sweet! I've used the slideshow for a while (and have always wondered why Plasma is the only desktop I have used that lets you set wallpapers per-screen...), but I had no clue about that one!

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