Thanks to the packaging efforts of the members of the KDE SIG (especially Alessandro Astone, Justin Zobel and Steve Cossette), we now have enough updated packages in Fedora to create Fedora Kinoite nightly images with KDE Plasma 6.
The biggest problem with NixOS is how there’s a lack of build servers to actually crank out various builds, which means the testing pipeline is kind of constipated, which means getting large stacks such as Plasma 6 into nixpkgs binary repos will take time. If you want it NAO, then you’ll have to use some weird nixpkgs branch and compile the stack on your machine, sort of like Gentoo.
GNOME 45 still hasn’t made it to nixpkgs-unstable even, and is currently in the works of being merged after testing has succeeded. I’m hoping it’ll be released with NixOS 23.11.
Tbf nixpkgs-unstable is actually pretty stable, and nixos-23.05 is just a 6 month older variant. They should rename the branch nixpkgs-unstable to nixos-rolling, because the package are not the latest, most unstable libraries and applications. But even as rolling goes, the testing pipeline is again a bit constipated.
The biggest problem with NixOS is how there’s a lack of build servers to actually crank out various builds, which means the testing pipeline is kind of constipated, which means getting large stacks such as Plasma 6 into nixpkgs binary repos will take time. If you want it NAO, then you’ll have to use some weird nixpkgs branch and compile the stack on your machine, sort of like Gentoo.
GNOME 45 still hasn’t made it to nixpkgs-unstable even, and is currently in the works of being merged after testing has succeeded. I’m hoping it’ll be released with NixOS 23.11.
Tbf nixpkgs-unstable is actually pretty stable, and nixos-23.05 is just a 6 month older variant. They should rename the branch
nixpkgs-unstabletonixos-rolling, because the package are not the latest, most unstable libraries and applications. But even as rolling goes, the testing pipeline is again a bit constipated.