With the major release of KDE’s Plasma 6, I figured, it was about time for me to try and switch to Wayland. As such, the moment it became available on the Arch repositories, I immediately made the switch. I’ve been preparing for a Wayland switch for quite sometime. First, by changing my display manager to SDDM so it can support both X11 and Wayland. Second was installing hyprland to test out if my current setup can actually DO Wayland. As you can glean from my story thus far, both were a success. Only in one other system I had that there was a failure in initializing Wayland but that was solved eventually.
Now, after upgrading to Plasma 6, other problems turned up. But it’s not for the install but rather converting from existing apps I use that use X11 and not Wayland natively. Now, there’s always the option to using XWayland (I’m looking at you WINE!) but for other apps, I’ve opted to switch to different ones. Also, since I’m using KDE now, why not use more KDE based apps, right? Here are the apps I’ve switch thus far:
- XFCE Mousepad -> KDE Kate
- XFCE Terminal -> Wez’s Terminal
So far, everything is running quite smoothly. There were a few hicups with Plasma crashing on the very first 6.0 release, but it seems to have been resolved already in the .1 version. I’ll post again if anything noteworthy comes to bear. 😋
Update (2024/03/17):
I’ve been on it for a bit over a week now and it’s as stable as ever.
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