Arch Linux-Based Garuda Linux “Bird of Prey” Distro Lands with KDE Plasma 6
As you can imagine, the biggest news of the new Garuda Linux (codenamed “Bird of Prey”) is the introduction of the KDE Plasma 6 desktop on the Dr460nized edition as the devs worked hard to upgrade from Plasma 5 porting multiple plasmoids and replacing other with updated forks.
For existing Garuda Linux users, the devs also updated the Garuda System Maintenance tool with the ability to migrate KDE Plasma 5-based Dr460nized editions to the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment while keeping Garuda’s unique Plasma look and feel.
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Garuda Linux "Bird of Prey" (240428)
It is a pleasure to announce another release of Garuda Linux :partying_face: This release is named Bird of Prey and it is the first release of the year 2024. We planned to introduce this one much earlier - shortly after KDE 6 was released back in February - but due to real life keeping some of us busy and a nasty bug causing some machines to not boot up during testing, we needed a little extra time to get everything ready. Nevertheless, pushing the ISO release wasn’t necessary to have our old ISO still working thanks to Garuda System Maintenance being able to automatically migrate the newly installed systems to Plasma 6 :wrench:
The main focus of this release is certainly the already mentioned Plasma 6 upgrade which already arrived in the Dr460nized edition. Meanwhile, Sway and Hyprland received some major improvements to their respective editions as well. Also, FireDragon was rebased to Floorp, meaning we now profit from its interesting feature set. Lastly, our build system for the garuda repository received major updates, and the pilot phase for Chaotic-AUR infra 4.0 is supposed to start soon :crossed_fingers: