What's hotter than an 80s style haircut? The answer is Plasma. My kind of Plasma. This is a review of the Plasma 5.16 desktop environment, including upgrade process and user setup, look and feel, better themes integration and management, consistency improvements, desktop shortcuts, notifications, new features in Discover and Vault, performance and responsiveness, robust updates, various fixes, some bugs, and more. Take a look. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/plasma-5-16-review.html Cheers, Mrk
I see I'm on 5.12.7 on Kubuntu 18.04. Not interested in a development release but any reason I should upgrade to the latest stable release? The fact Kubuntu hasn't updated it makes me think no. Advise, please.
My Arch install keeps me in Plasma happy land as fast as it hits the repo's, my Debian Buster is stuck in Plasma's past, same for Manjaro. As a KDE user I would not be happy with a distro that doesn't keep up with Plasma bug fixes and improvements.
Mine is from September, 2018. I would have thought it would have upgraded to a later version? Is it because 18.04 is LTS?
Kubuntu 18.04 will receive Plasma updates to only Plasma 5.12 LTS: https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5 (You'll need to scroll down quite a bit). Also, the dates mentioned there don't necessarily indicate when Kubuntu users will receive the updates. For example, although 5.12.8 was released in March 2019, we still haven't got it. See acheron's post here: https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php/75575-Plasma-5-12-8?p=428295&viewfull=1#post428295 There's a PPA Kubuntu 18.04 users can add because the update first appears there. One can monitor https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/ archive/ubuntu/ppa?field.series_filter=bionic. I haven't added this ppa because I don't need it. On the other hand, my Kubuntu 19.04 (minimal install option) running in a VM already has Plasma 5.16.2 so that I can see what the nearly latest-n-greatest looks like.
I installed this after Mrk posted it. No problems so far and running really well. Just might be my favorite Plasma spin, time will tell.
Hm? What you're saying about Manjaro is definitely not true. Manjaro Stable usually gets the latest packages about 2 weeks after Arch gets them - and Kde Plasma 5.16.2 is already available (and hence on par with Arch). If that's not fast enough for you, you could switch to its Testing or even Unstable branch.