Well, all in all, that was a successful week. Not only do I have a shiny new Kubuntu 24.10 happily running a speedy Wayland with Plasma 6, I now have a shiny new KDE Neon 6.2 running the 24.04 Rebase. The best part of the Neon Rebase is… all the niggly little things that had stopped working properly on the old 22.04 base, like the update notifier, and Firefox’s ability to drag and drop from the desktop are now fixed and working properly again! Yay!
There was one major heart stopping blip in that the upgrade borked Neon’s EFI partition. For a moment it appeared that the upgrade had bricked the entire system as I could not boot anything, not even thumbnails. Ultimately I got the live USB working and edited the EFI partition with efibootmgr.
The rebase did remove some packages that I will now need to reinstall, like Gimp, Kodi, Audacious, and Wine among others. Curiously it did not install CUPS and I had to install it manually. However it installed and I printed a test page successfully.
There seems to be a dependency problem with LibreOffice that I will need to sort out. This is sort of critical as I need it.
Steam is working and I am happy to report that Neon seems to be back on par with Kubuntu performance wise, however I have only tested one thing.
I am very pleased (so far).