Introducing GNOME 46, “Kathmandu” ( release.gnome.org )

GolfNovemberUniform , 2 months ago

Release on Arch when?

folkrav , 2 months ago

KDE6 took a week or so, didn’t it?

GolfNovemberUniform , 2 months ago (edited 1 month ago)

GNOME on Arch is a special thing. Unlike KDE and other DEs, GNOME arrives in like 3-4 weeks after the official release

heygooberman , 2 months ago

For my own learning and understanding, why does it take that long for GNOME on Arch?

GolfNovemberUniform , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Afaik they're waiting for version xx.1 with bug fixes. Idk if GNOME is unstable in xx.0 and idk why it has such a special place on Arch but what I do know is that Plasma 6 is quite bad now with its 6.0.2 so I guess this delay is a good idea because I'm a GNOME user and I want stable experience

1984 , 2 months ago

Don't think it's bad? It seems to have been a great release with Plasma 6. Don't have any issues myself and haven't seen anything major. But maybe I missed it.

GolfNovemberUniform , 2 months ago

Idk about your hardware but on mine it's not good. There were even full desktop crashes (the ones that make systemd boot log appear and only switching to a different session can make the system usable again). Btw I noticed issues on both Xorg and Wayland smh. Can't remember them now though

1984 , 2 months ago

Yeah it can vary of course. It works good on my machine. Amd graphics.

aleph , 2 months ago

The added benefit in the delay on Arch is that most maintained extensions will have already been made compatible by the time it hits the repos.

bittin , 2 months ago

@GolfNovemberUniform @heygooberman Plasma 6.0.3 is out on Tuesday next week upstream and GNOME 46.1 is out sometime in April

pol5xc , 1 month ago

It's already in extra-testing so I expect it to come soon, unless its dependency on util-linux-libs-2.40rc2, which is currently in core-testing, slows it down.