So I finally manage to install and run the new KDE Linux. Before I tried it on a spare partition (34Gb) using manual partitionning in the installer, the install seems to work but it would not start. I supposed it was due to multiboot with rEFInd but it was not the problem. Then, I used another partition (100Gb) and choose the “Replace a partition” in the installer and the install proceed and boot without a problem. It would be good to document that, I don’t know if 34G was not enough or if the manual partionning was the problem.
Now that my KDE-Linux is up and runing I tried to understand how to manage it. I have little to no experience with immutable system, apart from using Magisk’s module ovelay on Android, and looking a bit at Nix (but I gave up and went back). I understand that the system is not based on package manager, that flatpak/snap/Appimage is used for your GUI apps. I think I get the overlay principle (on top of RO /usr and all). For developpement I see that you use systemd-sysext, and I have setup ~/kde for extensions as per the wiki.
I understand that it is a new approch than need some chang in habits but I am not sure to really understand how to manage my system, in particular how to install programs other than those avaible on flatpak and all or is it the only supported way to do. Here some use case:
- I use neovim and I compiled It with
DESTDIR=~/kde
so I have it trough systemd-sysext, is it the way for those app (flatpak’s neovim seems not adapted just for an editor) - On other system I install a very useful tool for keyboard/layout remapping (with layer and other good stuff) called
keyd
it work at udev level. Am I supposed to compile it withDESTDIR=~/kde
or maybe is it just not supported? - the config of
keyd
goes into/etc
, It is writable, right? - by default
man
is not installed how I get it ? - Am I supposed to compile every libs and apps I could need (if not provided by flatpaks)?
Sorry for those really noobs question, I use linux for quite some time but I am a little lost with this new approch. I want to try it as it seems the future for linux system (KDE Linux is deemed to replace Neon right?) and provide interresting benefit. On the KDE Linux I know that it’s alpha, I just want to test it in parallel to other working install.
I am under the impression that there is something I don’t get, if someone can put me in the right direction, that would be awesome. Thanks in advance.