Plasma 6 landed in opensuse. However, I recommend to do it in tty because if you do it in plasma the upgrade will be incomplete because the shell will crash in the middle of update without installing all. In case this happen to anyone, just reinstall plasma 6 pattern and it will go without problems
I just installed this accidentally by clicking update all in the Discover app. It seems like it was successful and didn’t fail halfway, but I’m still confirming that. Everything seems to be working as of now.
I had to reset a lot of settings, unfortunately.
Yeah, when I saw the update I canceled, logged out and ran zypper dup from a tty. Rebooted and logged into a Plasma 6/Wayland session. Went swimmingly.
I think this kind of update is where “atomics”/immutables really shine. Install the update on a new separate snapshot and activate it at boot.
Yup, Kalpa upgrade was easy
How exactly did you do it? Any links to instructions and commands?
Screen or tmux are awesome to ensure that you can get back to a running shell. Like over SSH or on another tty.
In my case I had another WM installed (iceWM, I think it was there by default?) and did the upgrade from there. Unfortunately it does seem that if you try to upgrade from within KDE it will crash part-way (I used zypper dup and it failed).
So I’ve updated my desktop and Plasma, Nvidia, and Wayland is actually usable 🫨 but I had to reapply a few settings.
I always do my updates in a tmux session for this very reason. If something crashes I can pick it up via ssh or a tty
So that’s why my screen wouldn’t turn on this morning. I do automatic updates every night. After a reboot I didn’t even notice that I was on 6.
Wow, if only I saw this last night. I ended up installing lxqt and updating from there.
That’s the fun part of kalpa. Get to upgrade confidently. Though it does take a quick reboot to actually apply
Upgraded this morning. Everything seems mostly OK, but the login screen theme is odd, but fully functional. The lock screen is the same as before, though.
Did the upgrade a few minutes ago. No problems so far and everything feels very smooth when it comes to animation, desktop effects etc.
