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Is it OK to upgrade to Plasma 5?

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Is it OK to upgrade to Plasma 5?

Sun Nov 30, 2014 9:03 pm
I've been thinking about this, but I was thinking if it was OK to upgrade to Plasma 5, I know how to upgrade to it, but I'm not sure if I should upgrade, I'm using Kubuntu 14.10 with Plasma 4, if you want to know.
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What's "OK" will differ from user to user, so it's impossible to say if Plasma 5 is "OK" for a specific user or not. Some people use it and love it, others miss some features from Plasma 4.x or experience instabilities, etc. Personally I'm holding out a bit before jumping ship because my current environment works fine for me,and I don't have time for dealing with minor issues.

With that said, you could try it out in e.g. Virtualbox and see if you like it before you upgrade.


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Bear in mind that using VirtualBox will likely trigger some VM-specific issues, due to part of the user interface's reliance on openGL.


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I'm running P5 on my notebook. Look and feel is outstanding. There are still has some issues but I can live with that. Really annoying and the reason why I wait to switch with my desktop is that owncloud is not working because of the missing SNI integration.
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Thanks, I guess I'm going with VirtualBox, my PC is pretty important, and I do know it has some bugs, but I guess I'm trying it then.
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5.1.1 integrates much better with dolphin 4 and the other QT4 apps, but I'd wait until 5.2.x if you want to be really safe.


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