OMLx 6.0 made its exit from the darkness

- ISO build #3724 6.0 plasma6.x11 x86_64

- ISO build #3723 6.0 plasma6.x11 slim x86_64

- ISO build #3725 6.0 plasma6.x11 slim ryzen

Please note:
They are not official release yet.
That’s the reason why testers must enable “Release” repositories instead of “Rock
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(To be continued)

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Paging @UnkleBonehead

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This looks like a huge upgrade.

The smart user will do a fresh install of 6.0 Plasma6 or Plasma6 slim. Upgrading is possible if one has not done a lot of system customization. But that is not the wise course of action.

Rock 5 and 6 look so different I am surprised that it would be possible to update it, of course one should go for a fresh install.

I was commenting on how much more useable it looks from a noobish point of view. It actually looks modern now, ie, a big upgrade over the previous version.

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Whichever one may choose, BACKUPS are strongly encouraged.

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How do we attempt to do a in place upgrade from 5 to 6?

This has worked for me in Vbox twice so far:

Upgrading from 5.0 to 6.0 prerelease

I will be doing this test on a hardware Rock/5.0 system soon. These tests are done on a very close to default install system, based on past experience if a user has heavy customization they may encounter problems or failure.

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Thanks! I’ll wait until we are at official release stages. :+1:

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For anyone planning to make the move to Rock 6.0, please make sure you have more than one backup of your ~/ directory. You do not need ~/.cache and that will save you some time and space. I like to grab a copy of my /etc/fstab too.

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I’m on ROME. Once 6 is out, I think I’ll install on my second drive

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It will become my main since the kernel and nvidia drivers are great for the games I run.

This is perfect timing. I just finished deploying my second Proxmox node in my homelab using an old Dell Optiplex 7060 Micro and I need a good distro to test it out with. This one will do nicely. :slightly_smiling_face:

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