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Fedora 44 Will Be the First Distro to Adopt KDE's Plasma Login Manager (itsfoss.com)
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From their repo:

Plasma Login

Plasma Login provides a display manager for KDE Plasma, forked from SDDM and with an new frontend providing a greeter, wallpaper plugin integration and System Settings module (KCM).

What we want

  • Great out-of-box experience in multi-monitor and high DPI and HDR
  • Keyboard layout switching
  • Virtual keyboards
  • Easy Chinese/Japanese/Korean/Vietnamese (CJK) input
  • Screen readers for blind people (which then means volume control)
  • Remote (VNC/RDP) support from startup
  • Deeper Plasma integration including:
    • Display and keyboard brightness control
    • Full power management
    • Pairing trusted bluetooth devices
    • Login to known Wi-Fi for remote LDAP
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[–] morto@piefed.social 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No need for a fresh install. About every 6 months, you will receive a notification about a new system version available, and if you're ready to upgrade, just click it and follow the graphical process. I recommend doing the upgrade when you're not doing any important work, but I never had issues with it. If you think 6 months are too fast, fedora also supports yearly upgrades, skipping a system version.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I picked Fedora in part for the 6 month cycle so I'm on board!

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of rolling updates, just seems more likely for things to break.

Kubuntu has been pretty good for me, but I think Fedora generally has much newer packages even though it isn't rolling. It might be a good compromise for me. Or maybe Manjaro.