Plasma 6 landed in opensuse. However, I recommend to do it in tty because if you do it in plasma the upgrade will be incomplete because the shell will crash in the middle of update without installing all. In case this happen to anyone, just reinstall plasma 6 pattern and it will go without problems
WOOO amazing!!
also, thanks for the recommendation ^^
I just installed this accidentally by clicking update all in the Discover app. It seems like it was successful and didn’t fail halfway, but I’m still confirming that. Everything seems to be working as of now.
I had to reset a lot of settings, unfortunately.
Yeah, when I saw the update I canceled, logged out and ran zypper dup from a tty. Rebooted and logged into a Plasma 6/Wayland session. Went swimmingly.
I think this kind of update is where “atomics”/immutables really shine. Install the update on a new separate snapshot and activate it at boot.
Yup, Kalpa upgrade was easy
How exactly did you do it? Any links to instructions and commands?
First logout of Plasma, then you can change to tty 4 (for example) with ctrl + alt + F4, then you can login there with your user and do the upgrade safely in that other tty (or another one if you want to haha, just not in the normal desktop).
I think the Plasma desktop is always in tty 3 (ctrl + alt + F3) and the Plasma login is in tty2, in case you want to go back.
Screen or tmux are awesome to ensure that you can get back to a running shell. Like over SSH or on another tty.
In my case I had another WM installed (iceWM, I think it was there by default?) and did the upgrade from there. Unfortunately it does seem that if you try to upgrade from within KDE it will crash part-way (I used zypper dup and it failed).
So I’ve updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.
I always do my updates in a tmux session for this very reason. If something crashes I can pick it up via ssh or a tty
So that’s why my screen wouldn’t turn on this morning. I do automatic updates every night. After a reboot I didn’t even notice that I was on 6.
Wow, if only I saw this last night. I ended up installing lxqt and updating from there.
Been using Plasma 6 in Arch for a bit now and I have to say I’m very impressed. The 6 branch has fixed a variety of annoying little quirks that bothered me about KDE. It feels very good to use.
That’s the fun part of kalpa. Get to upgrade confidently. Though it does take a quick reboot to actually apply
Did the upgrade a few minutes ago. No problems so far and everything feels very smooth when it comes to animation, desktop effects etc.
Upgraded this morning. Everything seems mostly OK, but the login screen theme is odd, but fully functional. The lock screen is the same as before, though.
