The Fedora 40 KDE spin and Fedora Atomic KDE will be shipping with KDE Plasma 6 in April, not KDE Plasma 5. Plasma 5 was released 10 years ago, and Debian won’t be shipping Plasma 6 until at least Debian 13, which is probably sometime in 2025.
Yeah, I heard Debian users says they will need to wait a full year, and it’s obvious I put 5 instead of a 6, was a typo… But thanks to let me know, Plasma 5 was released 10 years ago (I would say a bit more).
I think it was SLS. I know it took a pile of floppies. At some point I made a tape to make it easier to install. Why I needed to install that often eludes my aging memory but those experiences still pay to this day.
<span style="color:#323232;">Q: How do I upgrade SLS
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A: If from .96, you don't. You must re-install from scratch. Otherwise,
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> read the ChangeLog file and download just the needed files manually.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">Q: Can I install a new version of SLS over an old one?
</span><span style="color:#323232;">A: Best not to. Save what you want somewhere and use mk[*]fs. SLS may
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> be best for base installs. Updates you can often get anywere on the net.
</span><span style="color:#323232;"> That is, unless you follow the upgrades to SLS religously.
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To this day I still don’t upgrade OSes in general and I even evangelize “rip and replace” professionally so loudly that it’s now enforced via policy at my workplace. This must be where my ethos for this practice originated.
I had not suitably prepared. I was a Windows Vista power user who heard how I could crack some Wi-Fi and gave it a whirl.
My chips went into one basket and me, oh my, was the transition ever so uncomfortable. What was dual booting? Who knows. Long story short, I made a mess for myself. I went through a significantly steeper learning curve than most, though it introduced me to script kiddie tools, programming, and eventually exploits.
Now a decade or so later, I’ve settled away from Arch to Debian. Though I miss the bleeding edge, my update frequency has lost much of it’s zealous edge.
I had messed around with various distros in the mid 2000’s but never more than a day. Just as a “this seems neat” kinda thing. Recently I wised up, tried Zorin OS was on that for a year, then went back to windows for a while. now I’m running EndeavorOS and there isn’t even a windows partition on this machine, I will not be going back. Still debating setting up QEMU for the only windows only program I miss though.
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