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
  • 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.