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More Plasma teasing. 6.0.2 now in unstable.
Wallpaper Escape by Alena Aenami
Theme is Breeze-Dark but with Carl colour scheme.
From the Solus Kitchen
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.
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
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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 ?
emmgee Why is this not labeled as Beta ?
I'm really sorry you're having these problems, and I hope someone from the team will recognize them and help you. I can only say that I've used Solus Plasma for years, and never seen anything of the sort, including with Plasma 6. These issues don't sound typical, so don't give up on Plasma. It's the finest edition Solus offers.
emmgee Sounds like a lot of those issues might be consequences of the big Plasma 5 -> Plasma 6 transition. I've seen people report that it even required several reboots after that big upgrade until everything was working correctly.
emmgee Requires toggling DesktopIcons everytime
Can you expand on what you mean here? This doesn't sound like any issue I'm aware of.
Krusader cannot edit Bookmarks due to some missing and unavailable KDE Deps
That doesn't seem like a Budgie issue. More of a "We don't have a keditbookmarks package" issue.
I agree with wetgeek this is not typical of solus but if you dont tell us the specs of computer its hard
to have a starting point.
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Staudey
Never mind the BudgieBugs.
That Installation is Two Years old, but on latest Sync and still pretty reliable.
The DesktopIcons Thingie is related to the ancient MouseFocus Bug
I just would have really appreciated a HeadsUp about the PlasmaBugs. Or a List of TTY Tricks to help recover.
This latest Installation is only 3 Hours young, and i am already getting nervous about the overdue Backup
And regarding kEditBookmarks .. it is missing on Plasma also.
I don't mind it being unavailable on Budgie, but a KdeBaseApp missing on a PlasmaDistro .. Come On
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Plasma already nearly got me again.
There was a momentary BlackScreen (2-3s),
and i went "No Way, i didn't do anything"
Crisis averted .. got a Backup anyway
Update - That did not last long ..
FUBARed again and restored for the 6th Iteration.
Bad WidgetTheme got me again
gotta agree with the smart responders above: your experience is not representative of anyone's (that I have ever read) re: The Plasma Experience.
Go back to Budgie.
Read about Plasma in the meantime and re-approach it in the future with a different mindset. Second time after a disaster usually works for me.
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