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Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:53 pm
by Germ
I tend to neglect my Trixie install but upgraded today. A lot of packages, a little time, and a reboot.
It's running Plasma 6 now and the upgrade actually went pretty smooth. Everything seems to work, no surprises, and very nice. I didn't even know the devs were working on it.
Plasma 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks 6.6.0
Qt 6.7.2
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:37 pm
by siamhie
Germ wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:53 pm
I tend to neglect my Trixie install but upgraded today. A lot of packages, a little time, and a reboot.
It's running Plasma 6 now and the upgrade actually went pretty smooth. Everything seems to work, no surprises, and very nice. I didn't even know the devs were working on it.
Plasma 6.2.3
KDE Frameworks 6.6.0
Qt 6.7.2
That's good to hear. I thought Debian was going to go with Plasma 5.27.11 in Trixie.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:39 pm
by Germ
Yea, I figured they would stick with 5.27.11 for a while longer.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:51 pm
by siamhie
Germ wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 4:39 pm
Yea, I figured they would stick with 5.27.11 for a while longer.
Bookwork is showing Plasma 5.27.5 but I do see that the Trixie packages for KDE has been updated from 5.27.11 to 6.2.3 since the last time I looked.
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/kde/
Also looks like Trixie will have the 6.11.10 kernel.
https://packages.debian.org/testing/kernel/
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:28 pm
by AVLinux
Dang!
The 6.12 Kernel has the full Realtime (RT) capabilities baked in without any patches, simply a boot switch to turn it on... A pretty big milestone in the kernel world, hopefully it will become the default (not that it's a very big deal to update)
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:05 am
by LinuxSpring1
Is Trixie running on 6.6 Kernel? Or some other?
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 6:19 am
by asqwerth
Plasma 6.2 might not be that problem free for Nvidia systems. Based on the posts on Manjaro forum.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:06 am
by dolphin_oracle
There is a ways to go before Trixie freeze. No kernel version is set in stone.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:20 am
by anticapitalista
AVLinux wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:28 pm
Dang!
The 5.12 Kernel has the full Realtime (RT) capabilities baked in without any patches, simply a boot switch to turn it on... A pretty big milestone in the kernel world, hopefully it will become the default (not that it's a very big deal to update)
Do you mean the
6.12 kernel?
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:15 am
by siamhie
dolphin_oracle wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:06 am
There is a ways to go before Trixie freeze. No kernel version is set in stone.
That's true. The kernel maintainers still have 6.11/6.12 listed as stable and not longterm.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:24 am
by AVLinux
anticapitalista wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 7:20 am
AVLinux wrote: Tue Dec 03, 2024 5:28 pm
Dang!
The 5.12 Kernel has the full Realtime (RT) capabilities baked in without any patches, simply a boot switch to turn it on... A pretty big milestone in the kernel world, hopefully it will become the default (not that it's a very big deal to update)
Do you mean the
6.12 kernel?
Typo fixed, thanks!
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:39 am
by Germ
Here's what I'm running Trixie on.
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System:
Host: debian Kernel: 6.11.10-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Dell product: Latitude E6530 v: 01
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: Dell model: 07Y85M v: A00 serial: <superuser required> UEFI: Dell
v: A22 date: 11/30/2018
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 42.5 Wh (100.0%) condition: 42.5/99.9 Wh (42.6%)
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-3720QM bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache:
L2: 1024 KiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1196 min/max: 1200/3600 cores: 1: 1196 2: 1196 3: 1196
4: 1196 5: 1196 6: 1196 7: 1196 8: 1196
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108GLM [NVS 5200M] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Device-3: Microdia Laptop_Integrated_Webcam_E4HD driver: uvcvideo
type: USB
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: crocus,nouveau gpu: i915,nouveau resolution: 1366x768
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: crocus,nouveau,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 4.2 vendor: intel mesa v: 24.2.8-1
renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Device-2: NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
API: ALSA v: k6.11.10-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: d4:be:d9:56:79:84
Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
IF: wlp3s0 state: down mac: d6:ca:4e:72:e8:62
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel 82801 Mobile SATA Controller [RAID mode] driver: ahci
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 13.3 GiB (11.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: SSD 120GB size: 111.79 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 27.33 GiB used: 10.15 GiB (37.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 10.2 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 80.55 GiB used: 3.15 GiB (3.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda4
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 977 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/sda3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 52.0 C mobo: 40.0 C sodimm: SODIMM C gpu: nouveau
temp: 40.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 2685
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.67 GiB used: 1.97 GiB (25.7%)
Processes: 252 Uptime: 4m Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.36
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:52 am
by siamhie
Germ wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:39 am
Here's what I'm running Trixie on.
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System:
Host: debian Kernel: 6.11.10-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.2.3 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid
@Germ What did you think of Plasma 6's default rounded floating toolbar?
I saw that when I booted KDE Neon's live ISO and didn't care for it.
(it can be restored in settings)
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 10:27 am
by AVLinux
I'm curious if there is any change in Plasma 6 of the storage and handling of the system configuration files? I briefly tried KDE recently and it was very attractive but I couldn't believe it's bad housekeeping with the config stuff, most DE's contain their stuff in a single dot folder or ~/.config subfolder and I thought in the past KDE did too but it seems Plasma 5 didn't..
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 10:32 am
by Germ
siamhie wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 9:52 am
@Germ What did you think of Plasma 6's default rounded floating toolbar?
I saw that when I booted KDE Neon's live ISO and didn't care for it.
(it can be restored in settings)
It's OK, but I changed back to the old toolbar.
Re: Debian Trixie to Plasma 6
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2024 10:34 am
by Germ
AVLinux wrote: Wed Dec 04, 2024 10:27 am
I'm curious if there is any change in Plasma 6 of the storage and handling of the system configuration files? I briefly tried KDE recently and it was very attractive but I couldn't believe it's bad housekeeping with the config stuff, most DE's contain their stuff in a single dot folder or ~/.config subfolder and I thought in the past KDE did too but it seems Plasma 5 didn't..
Config files seem to be like in Plasma 5. They are all over the place.