The move replaces SDDM but means giving up on custom login themes.

From their repo:

Plasma Login

Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).

What we want

  • Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
  • Keyboard layout switching
  • Virtual keyboards
  • Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
  • Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
  • Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
  • Deeper Plasma integration including:
    • Display and keyboard brightness control
    • Full power management
    • Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
    • Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    My father used startx and his father before him, so I reckon I’ll use startx too (aliased to systemctl start sddm)

  • glimse@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    I’m a very recent convert, what’s the upgrade process like on Fedora? Is it just like any other system update or is it better to do a fresh install

    • morto@piefed.socialEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      No need for a fresh install. About every 6 months, you will receive a notification about a new system version available, and if you’re ready to upgrade, just click it and follow the graphical process. I recommend doing the upgrade when you’re not doing any important work, but I never had issues with it. If you think 6 months are too fast, fedora also supports yearly upgrades, skipping a system version.

        • Die4Ever@retrolemmy.comEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah I’m not a huge fan of rolling updates, just seems more likely for things to break.

          Kubuntu has been pretty good for me, but I think Fedora generally has much newer packages even though it isn’t rolling. It might be a good compromise for me. Or maybe Manjaro.

    • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      totally fine in my experience, and I ‘dumb guy’ my way through the whole thing.

      my primary workstation system started with Fedora 28 > 43 - persisting through many hardware swaps and all sorts - though that’s with the gnome desktop.

      I’d imagine you could conduct full system upgrades via Discover on KDE too.

      • glimse@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        So it’s just like any other update through Discover? Or do I need to download the new release ISO and update it old school?

        • Vik@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          in-place upgrades are fine for just about any contemporary, mainstream Linux distro. You may find this experience to be more robust than on windows.

          I believe you can also upgrade via separate installation media, but you won’t find yourself needing to.

    • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Dead simple, same as the update process, just a bigger download. I’ve never used the Gnome spin, but the KDE spin hasn’t given me a problem in the last couple years.

    • entwine@programming.dev
      1·
      2 months ago

      If you were on an atomic spin (eg kinoite) the process is:

      1. Enable automatic updates
      2. Upvote posts from non-atomics asking for help out of pity
  • sip@programming.dev
    3·
    2 months ago

    hopefully it doesn’t have the full kde ecosystem as deps and can be used standalone. <insert doubt here>

  • ssnoer@indie-ver.seEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I like how the Fedora KDE spin is becoming one of the flagship distros for KDE in general.