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Honestly find Debian Testing good enough for latest KDE Plasma. I have never understood the need for a specific distro for your desktop software and have never
by righthand 1y ago
Honestly find Debian Testing good enough for latest KDE Plasma. I have never understood the need for a specific distro for your desktop software and have never found Neon useful.
The only pain point I really found even developing for KDE on Debian was the the switch from qt 5 to 6 but that is always a risk and you can just compile qt from src.
Another pain point is their dev package manager doesn’t have a way to conveniently target library/package branches. So you can spend a fair amount of time waiting for builds to fail and passing in the library or package version to the config file. Very tedious and no doubt cost me lots of time when trying to build on top of Akonadi for example.
- chupasaurus 1y ago> find Debian Testing good enough for latest KDE Plasma Latest as in "lagging for weeks while people in Ubuntu eat the bugs".
- righthand 1y agoPeople on Arch are eating the bugs too. I think KDE would go MUCH farther if they just made their tooling a little easier and bundled that well enough. They wouldn't need a separate distro.
- chupasaurus 1y agoUbuntu and Debian have the same maintainers for KDE and nearly identical packages so bugs are shared.
- righthand 1y agoAnd? Regardless most bugs probably get fixed before landing in Debian. I also never said “latest” packages. That is some heavy lifting done by you.