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Omnimaxus

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Registered: 2024-07-08

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Really wish Plasma 6 was out now on Q4OS (and a side request) ...

Ignore this post; this is more of a rhetorical remark than it is anything else.  But yeah.  Really wish Plasma 6 was out on Q4OS right now, so I could switch to Q4OS.  Haha.  I'm not using Q4OS right now because of Plasma 5.  It's OK-ish, but pales in comparison to Plasma 6.  I know Q4OS won't come out with Plasma 6 until later this year after Debian Trixie comes out.  I get that.  I understand.  But still!  Doesn't mean I can't wish for it now.  Haha.  Also, a side request - for the next major version of Q4OS, please include Discover as a ready-to-go package manager.  Don't make it optional (for the "live" edition install).  Thanks to the Q4OS team!

Last edited by Omnimaxus (2025-03-17 16:44)

crosscourt

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Registered: 2017-05-07

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Re: Really wish Plasma 6 was out now on Q4OS (and a side request) ...

Im running KDE Neon with KDE 6.3.3 as a test distro and honestly it isnt that different from KDE 5.27.5. There are some configuration changes I actually didnt like and preferred the way it was done in KDE 5.  Some of the added features are very nice.

Its easy to install Discover and the devs try to keep the isos as small as possible. Discover only recently has become more stable as generally I find Synaptic a far better package manager.

Overall I like KDE 6 but its not perfect, as it initially had a lot of issues and theyve been slowly cleaned up

Last edited by crosscourt (2025-03-18 03:36)

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dodogames

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Registered: 2023-11-06

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Re: Really wish Plasma 6 was out now on Q4OS (and a side request) ...

Doesn't KDE 6 require more resources or am i wrong? Last time i tried it, it took about 2 GB of ram.

crosscourt

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Re: Really wish Plasma 6 was out now on Q4OS (and a side request) ...

Its about the same as KDE 5 but I did my testing on Neon which is based on Ubuntu. Neon with KDE 5.27.5 when I used it was around 750-850mb. Neon with KDE 6 is around 900-1gb. You can tweak it quite a bit and get it to around 850mb.  It depends a lot on what you have installed on your system, active services and settings. I run a pretty vanilla system.

I havent run KDE 6 on Debian yet but Id anticipate that it will run a bit leaner.

In this day and age of most people having 8-16gb of ram its really not an issue.

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Q4OS Aquarius 5.x KDE   Dell Inspiron 3670, Dell Latitude 5450