I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?

  • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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    6 months ago

    Yes. Numerous COPR repos not updated aside, my sddm theme broke and doesn’t detect Qtgraphicaleffects (which is installed). You know what the weirdest part is? There are 2 “dependencies” for the theme: quickcontrols and graphicaleffects, and luckily, quickcontrols was detected properly. I ended up rewriting the theme, and while it works, it is far from where it needs to be. Safe to say, I’m very annoyed.

    Edit: I actually did a clean install, as I tried some other distros a few days before F40 released.

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      6 months ago

      So those are either random 3rd party problems (please contact the COPR maintainers, there is Discourse integration) or direct Plasma issues :D

      I was also a bit hesitant to already upgrade, as I tried Plasma 6 before and it wasnt perfectly stable, but I actually havent had any issues yet.

      3rd party stuff of course

      • minimal desktop indicator
      • video lockscreen (ironically had a Qt5 bug with seemless playback that may now be fixed)

      Some extensions have alternatives like Thermal Monitor, but upgrading was unintuitive. It needed removing and adding back.

      • theshatterstone54@feddit.uk
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        6 months ago

        I don’t use plasma so definitely not plasma issues. I use SDDM on the Sway Edition and then install Hyprland as my Wayland Compositor of choice.