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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I upgraded my distro relatively easily, had to purge and reinstall my nvidia packages & driver but other than that we’re back in action almost as if nothing changed.

KDE got a bit fancier with Plasma 6, a lot of themes no longer work.

[–] darkreader2636@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I read the upgrade notes and nothing seems changed for my setup (intel igpu and xfce4) so i'll wait for a few weeks and probably do an upgrade then

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You will get XFCE 4.20 at least. You can run Wayland now if you use Labwc as a compositor.

Even as a Wayland fan though, I would stay on Xorg for now if you are using XFCE.