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
totally fine in my experience, and I ‘dumb guy’ my way through the whole thing.
my primary workstation system started with Fedora 28 > 43 - persisting through many hardware swaps and all sorts - though that’s with the gnome desktop.
I’d imagine you could conduct full system upgrades via Discover on KDE too.
So it’s just like any other update through Discover? Or do I need to download the new release ISO and update it old school?
in-place upgrades are fine for just about any contemporary, mainstream Linux distro. You may find this experience to be more robust than on windows.
I believe you can also upgrade via separate installation media, but you won’t find yourself needing to.
Awesome, sounds as seamless as the rest of the OS
I upgraded from 42 to 43 through discover. I think that and terminal are the recommended methods, according to the docs. If you do it with ISO it writes over the root partition and keeps all other partitions and volumes.