KDE/Plasma Status Update 2020-08-13
Short status update on my KDE/Plasma packages for Debian sid and testing:
- Frameworks update to 5.73
- Apps are now available from the main archive in the same upstream version and superseeding my packages
- New architecture: aarch64
Hope that helps a few people. See this post for how to setup archives.
Enjoy.
Do you use it on any aarch64 device?
Fedora started to run natively including kernel on Raspi4 recently [0] , wondering how usable KDE is on the device.
[0] https://fluxcoil.net/software/fedora/fedora32_on_raspi4
Not me, but I was asked on the blog of the last status update for aarch64 binaries. Turned out that building worked nicely out of the box.
BTW Christian, reading your blog it seems rather complicated to install Fedora on RPi4, isn’t that arch supported out of the box?
On Debian we have quite good support, but due to some unfortunate dependencies I am stuck with RaspOS for our privacy aware smart speaker/assistant SUSI.AI
With these new steps which use ‘fedora-arm-image-installer’, the steps have become managable actually, compared to my old variants which transplanted the RaspOS kernel. It might be quite usable already without some of these steps, like setting static IP and disabling some services. I should try to distinguish better what’s really needed.
Yes, seems like Debian is in quite nice state, also with native kernel. I link to it too from the overview over various distros, https://fluxcoil.net/hardwarerelated/raspberry_pi_4 .
Hello! Thank you for your work, Norbert! I wonder is it possible to add kwin-lowlatency to your repo?
Here we go:
deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/npreining:/debian-kde:/kwin-lowlatency/Debian_Unstable/ ./
Atm only for unstable, same packages as normal kwin, only i18n seems to be disabled by this patch.
Let me know whether it worked out.
It works! Thank you!
Thanks for reconfirmation. Do you know when this special kwin is preferably used? With some specific GPUs?
Actually any. I have Nvidia and Intel on my PCs. Sometimes windows were freezing and I found this project at Archwiki, and decided to give it a try.
I haven’t seen that behavior, but I will look out for it. Do you have experiences with AMD GPU and screen tearing?
No. I had never have AMD GPU. But I saw it on Nvidia for a long time:). Btw, I decided to use AMD CPU and GPU on my next PC and a laptop. Using Nvidia blobs can make a lot of headache sometimes.
i switched tonight from kde on debian sid to your packages. it was a joy to do that. it works great and seamless. thanks for your great work.
You are welcome, and thanks for the positive feedback