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?

  • robotdnaEnglish
    13•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.

      • robotdnaEnglish
        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.