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Hoow do people use Plasma 6? I tried using KDE Neon unstable twice now. First install everything glitches, kickoff broken and updates dont work. Second install the installer is not even working.
Do they compile that stuff themselves?
It's basically in alpha
That was my experience a month or two ago but last week I had no problem installing Neon unstable on a test system and it was amazingly stable though far from perfect.
That said, the developers using Plasma 6 obviously compile it themselves, yes.
I assume you tested it in a virtual machine? Because of a bug in Mesa KWin's rendering in VMs without hardware acceleration is very broken right now
On my stupid Amd Thinkpad I have no virtualized GPU at all, so all VMs are a total pain. But on the new try it was literally the Neon Installer not finding user@user and cancelling
https://software.opensuse.org/package/plasma6-desktop
Thanks I will test that!