is there still a policy to wait for the .1 realease, or is the intention to go plasma 6 as soon as you can after its released?

We're most likely going to wait until the .2 or .3 release. This is a major overhaul of Plasma and there will be bugs. We'll also likely do a double week sync in unstable to iron out as many issues as we can.

The Plasma 6 release is at the end of February, personally I wouldn't expect it to land in stable until early April.

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    it's raw

      ReillyBrogan I'm itching for Plasma 6 now. I could have lived my life fine with waiting for regular updates, but no, now that I've seen this I'm condemned to disatisfaction with my Plasma 5...

        2 months later

        Harvey WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN?????

        It's so beautiful.

        It might be fun to test in unstable just to get hands on. Do we have docs for rolling back from unstable to stable for something like Plasma?

            Bhibb you can't roll back from Plasma 6 to Plasma 5. The migration scripts are one-way. You'd probably need to delete all of the Plasma config and state folders in order to downgrade successfully, or create a new user account altogether.

              @Bhibb I agree, it looks great. Even running on my new UW monitor at 5120x1440.

              @ReillyBrogan Is the bottom panel's width predefined when installing a fresh Solus Plasma? I'm asking cause the live CD and after first install, the bottom panel was not full width.

              Quick question for those testing..... Are you using Wayland or X? Most of what I'm seeing on Reddit is for distros that upgraded Plasma and changed the default session from X to Wayland without notifying users and then things are.... broken. Typically they just log out, go back to X, and then everything works fine.

              Also are we going to use Wayland as default? Need to know so I can be ready to support the friends and family I have that are all using Plasma. Wayland's not quite ready for primetime, at least not for gaming and some other tasks, so I want to make sure I'm way ahead of it.

                @zmaint I personally have found Wayland to be more solid on my Radeon RX 6600 with really no issues. My Intel Arc A750 is a mess right now on Wayland, not always waking on sleep and not as good of performance for many things. Don't have an Nvidia card so can't speak on those on Wayland.

                  I use Wayland on an AMD GPU as well as on a separate machine with an Intel iGPU. Both are fine IMO.

                  But I'd note that we're NOT changing the default session to Wayland yet, the default remains X11. We'll re-evaluate that default change in the future.

                  zmaint
                  I feel wayland gets better with time. I do not have problems, except some appimages who don't start.
                  I have a 2017 HP laptop with AMD cpu & gpu.

                    codewizard1975 I had issues with right click menus being black, games not closing cleanly and having to be killed, performance issues in games, desktop just felt.... weird too, hard to describe it, but it was noticeably "different" and not in a "gee whiz this is awesome" sort of way.

                    I think for me personally, until wine/proton is working native in it without xwayland... It's going to be a pass.

                      2 months later

                      Using Budgie for several Years i decided to try Plasma.

                      Mainly because of 2.5 minor issues Budgie has :
                      • Requires toggling DesktopIcons everytime
                      • Krusader cannot edit Bookmarks due to some missing and unavailable KDE Deps
                      • Occasional Freeze/Crash with only Remedy a forced Reboot

                      Now in Plasma, first Thing You see are severe graphical Glitches on the LogIn Screen

                      Moving on, it is relatively stable apart from occasional Unresponsiveness.
                      Yet now over 2 Days it managed to FUBAR itself FIVE Times :
                      • Twice, the Desktop turned Black with no Panels. Only Thing left is kRunner
                      • Twice, the ApplicationsMenu has vacated itself, only leaving the Power/Session Options
                      • Once, a previously working Installation boots to Black with just a Cursor. No F-KeyCombos respond

                      Interestingly running from LiveUsb is far more stable than Installations to Disk

                      Lessons learned :
                      • Never ever click something like "Get new Themes"
                      (Not worth the Risk, better avoid theming totally)
                      • Disable LoginScreen (another Troublemagnet)
                      • Do NOT use Settings while Sync is ongoing
                      • Backup Daily (until it is proven reliable)
                      • Reboot after Sync

                      Takeaway :
                      Why is this not labeled as Beta ?
                      Why are those severe Pitfalls not mentioned as better avoided ?