[kde] [Bug 467561] Nfs /home client hopeless since linux kernel 6.2

[Richard PALO]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=467561

--- Comment #7 from Richard PALO <richard.palo at free.fr> ---
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #6)
> Sounds you have multiple system components affected, and you said it started
> with kernel 6.2, I would suggest that it's a kernel issue, and recommend
> reporting it at https://bugzilla.kernel.org.
> 
> In general, in a managed/client focused environment, I would strongly
> recommend either using an LTS style distro like Kubuntu, or having an
> internal QA process to prevent certain updates from reaching clients. Arch
> is a very fast-moving distro and it's expected that things will break once
> in a while, with Arch users being expected to be able to troubleshoot and
> report informed bug reports. If this doesn't describe your clients, a
> different distro might be a better fit.
> 
> BTW, who is "we"? Can you provide some details about your use of Plasma on
> these machines? It sounds interesting.

Sorry, I guess I missed your response.

In general, we (our site) uses linux-lts, but with the clients we tended toward
mainstream for better hw support.
This was quite important when the clients were aarch64 but now that we've gone
back to x86_64 with Ryzen, there is a bit less problem there.

The choice of plasma on the  clients was two-fold, first, certain tools like
the pdf viewer okular are (in our usage) superior to the usual evince or
equivalent, mainly because we send/receive lots of 'electronically signed'
pdfs.  Using LibreOffice for signing or verifying signatures was a PITA with
pdfs.

Secondly, now that we have more memory on the clients due to moving back to
x86_64, the user experience is more appreciated under plasma -- once the
changes with the initial exposure migrating from lxde/lxqt was overcome
[naturally].
These users are administrative/finance users in an SME where NFS home
simplifies considerably the system administration.

I'll check with the latest 6.2 update to see if there's any change, if not I'll
file an issue upstream linux as suggested.

cheers

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