This week Plasma 6 underwent some major refactoring to the fundamental Plasma widget APIs to modernize them and make it harder to introduce errors when developing new widgets. Since almost everythi…
  • PumpkinEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Seems to be shaping up nicely.

    I’d love to try daily driving this but don’t want to run for example neon unstable all the time in case I hit some show stopping bug. Does anyone know if you could utilize a immutable distro like nix or Kinoite so you could rollback if have problems? It feels like these would be really good for testing.

    • rxmd@feddit.deOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not sure if an immutable distro will help you much with that right now. You’d still need someone maintaining Plasma 6 packages for you.

      If you’re comfortable with Arch, you could use astOS which is essentially Arch on an immutable root filesystem. Or you could use Neon Unstable on a btrfs filesystem with snapshots, and roll back if something goes wrong. But that’s all quite convoluted if all you want to do is try out Plasma 6.

      I think at the moment Plasma 6 is still for developers who are comfortable enough to get themselves out of the mess. Maybe compiling it and trying it out under a different user account for a while is the best way to test it.

      • PumpkinEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, you’re right. I had assumed maybe plasma 6 packages would be in rawhide or something, but they don’t seem to be. I guess I’ll be patient, not always something I’m best at :)