chief It does the main things I want

Same for me. In July, I welcomed the opportunity to test-drive Plasma 6 without building it myself, and I cannot believe how much more usable it has become since then. I have other laptops, which I use very occasionally (in part, while I wait for konversation6 and print-manager6), but KaOS 6 has been my daily runner since 2023-09-23. I acknowledge that the next rebuild might break something (or maybe even everything), and if it does, I know to report it, but not to whine about it, and I will just wait for the next ISO.

      16 days later

      A new Plasma 6 ISO is up again. First time that autologin is enabled for Plasma 6, there are no longer issues with Wayland on Virtualbox.
      Added is newly ported Kompare6.
      This ISO is getting quite close to Plasma 5 quality/stability, which is a nice sign, since upstream KDE plans to release a first Plasma 6 release next week (Alpha).
      A few more rebuilds are needed to make it possible to have a complete kf5 & kf6 co-installed, if that is done, things are looking close to have the next stable ISO being Plasma 6 based.....

        demm

        The only missing piece for me is epsonscan2.

          Is print-manager6 working? Do I need to install and enable cups?

            mparillo Cups needs to be installed and enabled, though the plasmoid does not work here.

              Thank you very much. I had an HP printer, so for me:
              sudo pacman -S hplip
              and cups was already a dependency
              systemctl enable cups.service
              reboot
              hp-setup -u
              And my printer was already selected and default in System Settings > Printers.
              I successfully printed from kate6.

              5 days later
              7 days later

              Hello,
              to get the Plasma 6 updates we should reinstall the system from the new ISO (when you'll publish a new one) or we will get them using the normal updates?

              • demm replied to this.

                kaos_user See the very first post in this thread, it tells you which repos are needed (and will always show the latest avaialble ISO).

                  Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry but I can't find the repo in the first post or thread nor in the blog post. 🙁

                  In a following post you write "you will need to edit pacman.conf and add the build repo above core, then add kde-next above build once rebooted into the new system." but I can't understand what it means

                  • demm replied to this.

                    kaos_user That is written that way for a reason, see https://forum.kaosx.us/d/3062-instructions-how-to-convert-a-plasma-5-install-to-plasma-6 for why no further explanation will be given.
                    If you do not know the basics of how to test/add repo's, etc on KaOS, installing an alpha Plasma is not a good idea, just use the Live session from the ISO's to preview Plasma 6, there is a new ISO about every 2 weeks.

                        demm Thank you very much. Don't worry, I won't report issues or open new threads if the system will break. As I'm not expert, I've installed it on a spare hard disk.
                        I just want to have the basic "Kaos 6" system configured. I'll follow the instructions in the link. Thanks again

                        • demm replied to this.

                            kaos_user No need to follow that post, just install from the Plasma 6 ISO, and edit /etc/pacman.conf with the instructions in the first post (you will see the [core] repo available in that file.
                            But make sure to understand how to use a rolling distro/pacman:
                            https://kaosx.us/docs/pacman/

                                demm I've read the basic guide, thanks. I've also opened the pacman.conf file and the instructions became immediately clear :-) I set up the system as described above, thanks.

                                  a month later

                                  With a two week delay, finally a Plasma 6 ISO is up with the KDE Megarelease Beta1:
                                  https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/beta1/
                                  Delay was because of Calamares failing to build on Qt 6.6.1, but in the end it was not a change in 6.6.1, but rather a CMake setting change that doesn't work (yet) with Calamares in qt6-base build.
                                  kf5 & kf6 are now fully co-installable, ISO includes a couple more ported applications (like Okular, kf6 based).
                                  Hopefully many will keep testing, since this ISO is getting close what could/should be released as next stable early 2024.
                                  Autolgin now actually works again too.

                                  Beta1 Test ISO did not go well. It fails to install. The FAT 32 partition does not get created properly. Only 300MiB is needed to boot a UEFI system and it looks like the installer tried to create a 512MiB partition and allocated 300MiB of it leaving the 212MiB unallocated

                                    Regarding size, that is an endless debate, 512 has been recommended in many places and with so many dual-booting, 300 is often too low, but that is not the issue, seems the mkfs-fat command fails on the EFI partition, no answers yet, once issue is found & fixed, a new ISO will be uploaded.