I have tried the KDE Neon version of armbian a couple months ago. There were some issues. I guess it doesn't hurt to give it another try. However i can not find that version now. I don't really want to use anything ubuntu as it is basically debian with makeup. The issue with debian and its derivatives is plain obvious, old software which i am trying to avoid.You could try https://www.armbian.com/rpi5b/ I was thinking. Use the Noble variant, it is based on Ubuntu but snaps for example is removed. Then install KDE on that, but first check if KDE6. But I also see 'community maintained', so don't expect any additional packages or so like RPIOS has.Yeah probably but i am just trying anything that will keep my Chromium up to date on my X11 system. I could have switched to wayland by now but the desktop things of RPIOS is not enough for me, i need more stuff, that is why i use KDE Plasma, and it is stuck on version 5.27 on Debian unfortunately. Add in the fact that there is no rolling release which includes a newer version for RPI-5, i am kind of stuck. I tried Manjaro (nightly) but it has its own issues. And no official RPI-5 release anyway. Other than the irksome "Ubuntu" (who cares).
your miss understanding, the debian version has never been hardware accelerated on rpi's
I would have thought that there would be all kinds of distros released for RPI-5 but it has been exactly the opposite.
Otherwise, OpenSuse Tumbleweed has nice working KDE6 Wayland. The hack/trick you have to do yourself is add an RPI 6.6 or later kernel. That should work. See ow script rpi-update works. Problem is you need likely need scripts to make sure the Pi5 keeps using the Pi kernel. Remove opensuse kernel via zypper package manager maybe.
The others you mention, Manjaro, Opensuse, yeah, they require extra work which i am not really familiar with.
Statistics: Posted by jason_kidd — Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:34 pm