CentOS Stream for a private KDE Desktop?
CentOS Stream for a private KDE Desktop?
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?
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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
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.
I can't give too much specifics due to IP and company infosec but was having issues with network drives
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
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.
Thanks!
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.