I currently use Fedora Kinoite and until Plasma 6 some major bugs will simply not be fixed. “Solved in Plasma 6” is a very common phrase now and that is okay.

But maybe once that is settled, I would like to have a system with tested packages, that doesnt always break and annoy me…

I love to see new features and especially KDE is simply best on modern Distros, currently. But with Nix and Flathub I think CentOS Stream should be a good mix?

I like the security settings it has, but I never used it. How good is EPEL, do external repos for things like Brave work? How old are packages, do you know when Plasma 6 will arrive there?

  • robotdna@toast.oooEnglish
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    7 months ago

    I’m required to use CentOS for work and it would be an understatement to say how frustrating it is to use for me. So many packages are missing / old, and some packages just break. There have also been wild bugs which just kernel panic the whole OS. I’d steer clear.

    If you’re on Kinoite, can’t you just enable Plasma 6 if you really need it?

    https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2023/11/22/kinoite-plasma-6/

    Otherwise:

    https://community.kde.org/Plasma/Plasma_6#How_to_use/test_it

    • GnomeComedy@beehaw.org
      1·
      7 months ago

      Can you point out the wild bugs that kernel panic the OS? I’m an admin for a large number of RHEL machines and our team has talked about switching to Stream. Would love to know more about these bugs.

      • robotdna@toast.oooEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I can’t give too much specifics due to IP and company infosec but was having issues with network drives

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      1·
      7 months ago

      Yes I may do that but its mainly even more unstable. Question was if stable Distros get Plasma 6 in a reasonable amount of Time.

      Thanks for your experience

      • anothermember@beehaw.org
        2·
        7 months ago

        Keep in mind stability in terms of Enterprise Linux refers to feature stability (i.e. a static set of features), not necessarily reliability. So if you want anything quickly, it’s really the opposite place to look.

        EPEL is officially part of the Fedora project, so I would be surprised if anything makes it there before mainline Fedora (unless any one knows any better).

        I’ve not had much positive experience when I’ve tried KDE with RHEL/CentOS. I find the more you rely on EPEL the less of an advantage there is to using EL, and if you’re planning on using EL as a base for running Flatpak apps you’re probably better off with Silverblue/Kinoite which you already use.

    • aksdb@feddit.de
      1·
      7 months ago

      You should consider using distrobox and/or apx, so you can effectively run any software from any package manager from any distro.

      You could have a bottled archlinux where you install and run cutting edge stuff.