Last night I upgraded kde Plasma from 6.1 tom 6.2 and sadly, I had some features behaving unexpectedly or entirely broken.
System Monitor widget for CPU and RAM display a percentage in the middle of the pie chart widget while before I did not had that in the pie chart layout. It’s ok if it’s a new feature but the percentage covers the pie chart almost entirely and I don’t think it’s intentional
Discover doesn’t open anymore when clicking the icon or launching it from terminal. No error whatsoever except when launching it as sudo:
“libs QList(”/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt6/plugins", “/usr/bin”)
org.kde.plasma.libdiscover: OdrsReviewsBackend: Fetch ratings: true
adding empty sources model QStandardItemModel(0x5fc5a7c8c3f0)"
Cannot access my NAS unless every time I provide the username and password credentials
The Application dashboard widget is gone and because I was using it it crashed plasma when I booted my PC. I had to manually remove it and install the package kdeplasma-addons which re enabled me to use the Application Dashboard widget once again.
These are my system info:
KDE neon jammy 22.04 x86_64
Linux 6.8.0-45-generic
KWin (Wayland)
KDE Plasma 6.2.0
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (32) @ 5.88 GHz
AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX [Discrete]
62.43 GiB
Did anyone come across a similar issue? Any resolution?
I just received a full system upgrade. The version for Plasma and KDE Framework are still the same as before except this time all of my custom ppa are disabled and few apps are uninstalled.
The problems I have reported above though aren’t fixed. Not sure what this upgrade just did to my system. I use Neon since its very first release and up until plasma 6 I probably re install my system once or twice. Since the upgrade to plasma 6 I already installed my OS twice already and it looks like there’s gonna be a third one too. Not ideal for me as this is the only OS I use 24/7
So true. It is no longer usable for as an everyday system. Also, the description for user edition has been updated no longer recommending it for everyday use. I am going to switch to kubuntu 24.10, they just updated to plasma 6.1 anyway
Hello I’m new to the forum, right now I’m struggling with KDENeon 24.X Plasma 6.2.
I did a clean install on reboot after installing some programs I couldn’t log in any more (black screen), I did another clean install with an ISO (20240929-1217)
that I downloaded yesterday, it was installed with plasma 6.1x all fine when reinstalling programs and frequent restarts.
The discovery marked me an update and everything was fine, until the update manager flagged me to KDENeon 24.X which I accessed, but when I restarted it was corrupted (black screen).
My Neon install wasn’t fixed with the upgrade.
This is what I see in the web page:
Featuring the latest officially released KDE software on a stable base. Ideal for adventurous KDE enthusiasts.
Note the word “Stable” mentioned there
Review the whole page of the FAQs rather than skimming through it.
It unequivocally highlights the following:
KDE developers endeavor to minimize bugs and maximize stability within the scope of the KDE software stack. However, using the latest software the moment it’s released will inevitably result in a less stable experience compared to distros that delay software by days, weeks, or months. If you have mission-critical reliability needs, KDE Neon might not be the right distro for you.
For who exactly is this distro then? For people who have a spare computer, install it and use it once a month? Or is it just for the KDE devs exclusively? What that statements sounds to me is more like “we devs make the release, add new features and polish the UI interface, but if things don’t work in your machine then this product isn’t for you”. Well, that’s political indeed
Personnaly I use TuxedoOS on my main machine (which is a Tuxedo …) It is close to KDE Neon (use theyre repo) but stable (realy) with test and QA.
I only use KDE Neon as a test for new stuff on a test machine: in fact I have multi-boot with KDE Testing and Unstable. To be fair until recently KDE Neon denide to even be a distro. I don’t think it was the 1st idea. More a platform to devs and to test new stuff not for every day end-user. At list is how I see it but I started using it quite recently.
The fullscreen app Launchpad as a plasma6 menu but I don’t use it right now. It is nice and work but something bother me: the code in the link to the github doesn’t match the widget (the github is outdated). https://store.kde.org/p/2174238
That description used to read something 'ideal for everyday use", but they changed it a few months ago. The new description is definitely much better. If someone installed their system before the change however, they really cannot be blamed. It is still a great distro for people who just want to check out some new shiny KDE feature that was just released before installing it on their main system. But calling it user edition is pretty weird, imo they should rename it to enthusiast edition or early adopter edition or something like that
