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
I like how the Fedora KDE spin is becoming one of the flagship distros for KDE in general.
hopefully it doesn’t have the full kde ecosystem as deps and can be used standalone. <insert doubt here>
My father used startx and his father before him, so I reckon I’ll use startx too (aliased to systemctl start sddm)
What would your father say? Real fathers use real startx.
We don’t talk anymore, he’s a Red Hat now.
Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
That is huge.
Isn’t sddm managed by KDE already? Or was the lack of a K in SDDM proof it is not.
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
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.
I picked Fedora in part for the 6 month cycle so I’m on board!
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.
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.
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?
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.
Awesome, sounds as seamless as the rest of the OS
I upgraded from 42 to 43 through discover. I think that and terminal are the recommended methods, according to the docs. If you do it with ISO it writes over the root partition and keeps all other partitions and volumes.
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.
