Arch celebrating plasma 6 dropping a week after NixOS

Hardly, NixOS documentation is trash. The Arch Wiki is essentially the platonic ideal of documentation.

The difference is I can upgrade my NixOS without breaking everything hahaha. But it has gotten a lot more popular recently, which I think is your analogy? Or because people always bring it up now lol

It doesn't have a wiki as good as Arch, yet

Nah, NixOS has a very deserved air of superiority. Arch just fakes its one.

😂 a freudian slip

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"bleeding edge"

But maybe Arch doesn't purport to be bleeding edge anymore.

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That's unfortunately true. There's a community effort to document stuff without going through the lengthy process of getting it approved by overworked maintainers: https://nixlang.wiki

Feel free to contribute your learnings there.

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At least rolling back after you broke it was easy. :)

Are you starting fresh or did it work with another DE? Might help in tracking down the problem

NixOS users install KDE using a NixOS config option, as there's a lot of configuration needed to make KDE run beyond just installing the binaries.

And set up all the systemd services themselves? Sure. Have at it.

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Yes, we the people! Rise up, comrad!

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Sassy Black Woman: What do you mean "You people"?

But compiler scawy

It was also already in Arch's KDE-unstable repo. I've been using Plasma 6 for like 3 months.

Compiling source code tends to get messy when you decide to remove it from your system. Also, you'll have to manually update it, any package manager will be unaware of it and can't do anything with it anyway. You'll also be responsible for dealing with conflicts with other software or dependency issues. That's why we have repos. Someone else did all that work already.

Of course, but that doesn't add it to the package repo.

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Things are weird too under Gnome rn. Check this out:

I genuinely don't know how to fix this one. It just started doing that one day and it doesn't matter if i use or dash-to-dock, dash-to-panel, etc. The spacebar extension wants to plop it right before the menu. It's mildly infuriating. I really, really wish Gnome would just let us configure the panels more similar to Plasma or Latte-Dock. I don't want to switch to KDE Plasma because I don't like most QT apps and honestly Breeze doesn't look good as libadwaita. Custom themes are super inconsistent in Plasma and it drives me a bit nuts. Tho, I heard the KDE team proposed a solution that might make things better in the next couple versions.

If I ended up on Plasma I'd have to exclude the majority of KDEs and add their Gnome equivalents XD

I wonder if that would work... 🤔

I do copy paste it. KDE has a tool called klipper that allows to have a clipboard history, so hitting Super+V brings up a dropdown and I can select it. The effort is therefore minimal.

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There used to be an option in plasmasettings/appearance/fonts called DPI. It was basically the same as the scaling in display and monitor, but with a different underlying implementation which seems to result in less random empty space.

Could you explain what that is?

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