Thank you for your thoughts on this. It's very interesting that you are still on Plasma 4. FWIW, I got really tired of "the eternal update dance" on Kubuntu. Since switching to Arch in 2014, I have felt great relief from having to deal with major version upgrades. When I wrote my prior message I was (probably incorrectly) focused on the Plasma 5 to 6 upgrade as a source of my pain, but in hindsight I think it is more fair to point the finger at my hardware (nvidia GPU) plus the the transition from X.org to wayland.
On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 6:41 AM René J.V. Bertin <rjvber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday February 21 2023 02:18:25 Dave T wrote: > >I'm thinking about sticking with KDE Plasma 5.26 (or maybe one of the > >KDE Plasma 5.25 releases) until I'm ready to move to wayland and > > ... > > >Who is doing something similar and could offer me some advice? (Or > >should I ask on an Arch Linux forum?) > > > Ahhh, the eternal update dance... it gets old, doesn't it? I'm personally > still on Kubuntu 14.04 (and so, yes, with Plasma 4), updated myself in part > with PPAs containing backports and with locally built software managed > through a 3rd party packaging system. > > Pinning/holding a selection of packages would work but only if you're certain > that non of the pinned packages have dependents which also get blocked from > being updated; this can lead to a snowball effect. You'd probably be fine > though just pinning your entire KDE DE, if the version you have works for > you. You'd best ask about that kind of details on an Arch forum or ML. > > Note that KDE has one or even 2 systems of its own to grab sources and build > the entire DE. IIRC Arch is one of the distros that is normally built locally > so following that approach wouldn't really be overly new for you or require > setting up a dev. environment etc. > > R.
