I’m considering switching from Windows 10 to something either using KDE or the new Cosmic DE that System76 is working on. Right now I’ve got a 3060TI.

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@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca on Manjaro KDE with Nvidia proprietary drivers mine works 100% on X11, but with Wayland I still get random freezes of about 40 secs to a minute. It’s better than it was a year back when it would not boot into Wayland at all. I understand this issue is affecting some using the Nvidia proprietary driver and supposedly may be resolved with KDE v6, but I’m still waiting for the KDE v6 to hit stable release.

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KDE 6 has already been released. Please migrate to EndeavourOS.

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It was released but that doesn’t make it stable… It’s currently still receiving lots of bugfixes and improvements.

Not sure what switching to Endeavour would accomplish anyway. They both get the same packages from upstream. If you want to get them slightly faster you can switch to the testing repos on Manjaro.

Also, can we stop reacting to everything with “wipe everything and install the distro I like”? How about working with what they have first, there’s often a solution.

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Those packages are not going to be any more stable when you get them. Just older.

When you get the bug fixes happening now, it will be long after Arch and EOS did.

My impression is that EndeavourOS is more stable than Manjaro after using both extensively.

Anyway, I agree as a general principle that we should stop telling people to switch distros to solve specific technical problems.

That said, you do not have to wipe everything to move from Manjaro to EOS. I have done it on multiple machines. Perhaps their suggestion was to fix your problem in place.

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You don’t have to. Just replace Manjaro mirrors with the Arch ones, and you’re good to go.

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@DieserTypMatthias@lemmy.ml why wouldn’t I just rather change channels on Manjaro if I wanted it earlier. Changing distro’s really seems a bit extreme and going to cause other config issues. I still use X11 as my daily driver so quite happy to wait another two or three weeks until Manjaro has finished ironing it out.

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No, I don’t think I will, nor does it make any sense to suggest such a nuclear option. Like the person you replied to, I’ll wait until it shows up in Manjaro stable repos.

I tried Plasma 6, after its release, on Wayland with my nvidia card and many things were still broken.

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