Who has stuck with an older version of Plasma for a while?

[Dave T]

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 2:10 AM Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Dave T posted on Tue, 21 Feb 2023 02:18:25 -0500 as excerpted:
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> > I'm thinking about sticking with KDE Plasma 5.26 (or maybe one of the
> > KDE Plasma 5.25 releases) until I'm ready to move to wayland and Plasma
> > 6.
> >
> > I'm on Arch Linux (with an nvidia GPU, proprietary driver and X.org). I
> > guess I could pin all KDE packages to a specific version while
> > continuing to update the rest of my system.
> >
> > Who is doing something similar and could offer me some advice? (Or
> > should I ask on an Arch Linux forum?)
> >
> > Any opinions on which version from the last 6 to 9 months would be a
> > good candidate to stick with for a good long while?
> >
> > Currently on plasmashell 5.27.0. Going backwards seems a better choice
> > than going forward right now -- for me.
>
> So I know you are considering moving back from 5.27.0, but it's worth
> noting that 5.27 is an official LTS release (I believe the last one before
> 6.x, tho I'm not positive on that) and thus is likely to have the best
> continuing support.  Maybe that changes how you weigh the various factors?
>

Thank you. Yes, I'm reconsidering.

> Here's the 5.27.0 announcement page which mentions its LTS status:
> https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/
>
> Given that LTS, I'd personally try to stick with it if I were to be
> sticking, tho of course it's early in the 5.27 cycle ATM, and if you're
> affected by some newer bugs, I'd consider perhaps going back to 5.26 or
> even 5.25 for just a couple months or whatever (aren't the bugfix releases
> monthly now? I'm on live-git so I kinda lost track, but that'd be two of
> them if so), until they're hopefully fixed in the 5.27 LTS cycle, would
> make sense.
>
> But of course being your system, it's ultimately your decision, just like
> it's mine to run "crazy" live-git here. =:^)

Very interesting.

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