Do I smell compiz?
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But this cube.. didn't it come from beryl before it was compiz? Man that brings back nostalgia.
Them wiggly wobbly windows tho
Yes.
Beryl was a fork of Compiz, and then was merged back later on. The desktop cube was basically Compiz' first big show off feature, along with the wobbly windows.
That's right. Man that was a long time ago.
Ha I saw that
Noob question here: when KDE 6 is released, when would I then see it as available in my Ubuntu 22 / 23 app store for download? Right away or years later?
Usually major desktop environment updates are saved for new major OS updates. So you'd probably have to wait until the next major Ubuntu release. If you're on LTS, that may be years. If you're on the latest release, it will probably be less than a year.
24.04 won't have Plasma 6, but 24.10 will. In other words, fall 2024.
Or you can use KDE Neon, which is basically Ubuntu LTS, but with the newest Plasma.
We have the release candidates available (after jumping through some hoops) in Gentoo ATM, when 6.0 comes out they'll be generally available with minimal effort, and eventually be deployed to our stable users with no need for changes on their part
Just use Debian testing. There it will arrive in Spring.
Old Ubuntu? No sir!
I'm gonna switch to tumbleweed just for this, wanna have it as soon as stably possible
Installed it yesterday and it's amazing. Faster than RC1 and most of the bugs are gone.