If you’re eager to play around with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6 release the folks behind the KDE neon make it easy.
Work on KDE Plasma 6 is well underway and the first stable release of it is expected to be released …Well, when it’s ready – but likely sometime later this year.
But if you’re keen to muck in and try it out ahead of then you can download KDE neon unstable edition. This is an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS based “not a distro” distro whose latest ISOs include KDE Plasma 6.0 and its assorted libraries and frameworks.
Now, I must stress that KDE Plasma 6 is a work in progress. By using it you’re liable to encounter instability, breakage, bugs, etc. KDE neon unstable has a high churn rate (i.e. you’ll be installing lots of updates, regularly) so it’s not suited for use on the laptop you’re writing your dissertation on, etc.
Finally, just to set expectations, there aren’t any too many major user-facing changes in KDE Plasma 6 so far (this is somewhat by design). If you’re coming from KDE Plasma 5.27 you will find things are mostly the same, but now a Bit Betterer™ of course!
Still, KDE fans looking to ride the bleeding edge will find plenty to interest.
KDE neon even say that “considering this is an early port using unreleased frameworks it’s mostly useable, especially now the worst of the overlapping kf5/kf6 packages are sorted”. Certainly sounds good enough for VM probing or running it on an older, obsolete device for real-world testing.
You can download KDE neon Unstable Edition from the KDE neon download page.
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