I've been a big fan of KDE these past few years so super excited to see this develop further.
> Vendor-specific VPNs that require custom out-of-tree kernel modules that cannot be redistributed with the kernel due to license incompatibility
God I hope this isn't another immutable os that mullvad won't work on. The lack of mullvad vpn on my steamdeck is a constant pain in my side.
Other noticeable hiccups right now are giant updates aka no delta updates, no secure boot, no swap space.
> Doesn't break, or at least easy to recover... KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality.
> Updates are atomic and A/B image-based, with automatic Btrfs snapshots for the last 5 OS images...
I've been wanting to get automatic snapshot restore/boot shortcuts through the systemd-boot menu ever since I lost the feature when I switched from GRUB! Super excited to hear someone finally got it working with btrfs and systemd-boot.
Can anyone point me to any hints/resources on how I can get this added to my current arch+kde+btrfs+systemd-boot
johng · 57m ago
Can you get Tailscale to work? I use Tailscale as my VPN.
I set up a Tailscale node on a small VM in the cloud and use it as an exit node. It works wonderfully.
GuinansEyebrows · 6h ago
in case anyone else was curious about the overlap with KDE neon:
> Differences from KDE neon/Prior art
> KDE neon was KDE's first version of a self-made OS.
> It fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise.
> It is built on fairly old technology and requires a lot of packaging busywork — both of which are non-goals of KDE Linux. [0]
This is what drove me from Ubuntu to Arch (specifically I'm on EndeavourOS) I had a piece of software that needed me to install a version of the C standard library that was not available on Ubuntu in any way without messing with the core OS. So I said, screw it, let me finally try Arch, but let me find the least intrusive installer based Distro. I have not looked back since.
petepete · 6h ago
I’m more confused about the difference between KDE and Plasma.
rstat1 · 5h ago
KDE is a combination of multiple different parts of which Plasma is one (and also the name of the overall organization that produces the whole thing). Plasma is the main component, its main contribution to KDE is the various user facing components like the desktop, the launcher bar, etc.
1bpp · 5h ago
KDE is an organization developing Linux desktop software and Plasma is their window manager
petepete · 5h ago
But I thought kwin was the window manager. And that the DE in KDE stands for Desktop Environment, so it's weird that it's actually an organisation.
Other noticeable hiccups right now are giant updates aka no delta updates, no secure boot, no swap space.
I've been wanting to get automatic snapshot restore/boot shortcuts through the systemd-boot menu ever since I lost the feature when I switched from GRUB! Super excited to hear someone finally got it working with btrfs and systemd-boot.Can anyone point me to any hints/resources on how I can get this added to my current arch+kde+btrfs+systemd-boot
I set up a Tailscale node on a small VM in the cloud and use it as an exit node. It works wonderfully.
> Differences from KDE neon/Prior art
> KDE neon was KDE's first version of a self-made OS.
> It fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise.
> It is built on fairly old technology and requires a lot of packaging busywork — both of which are non-goals of KDE Linux. [0]
[0]: https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux#Differences_from_KDE_neo...