I am using AMD CPU , so I donât think this is related at all. At the moment backup was restored and I switched to stable branch, so there is nothing to test, because the 6.1.4 Plasma works fine for me.
However, if it comes to that, that the update will come to stable branch and the same issue happens, Iâll check X11 as well. However, it is problematic for me to test various things because I have 1444p screen and X11 is crap for it. My workflow depends heavily on plugins and tab groups in Firefox, while other browsers are for some other activities, so itâs not like I am ready to do hours of work there.
From DEs, LXQT is the safest thing to install alongside Plasma and that is easy to do, when it comes to that.
So far, a few hours of work on the downgraded system and no issue.
I hated it BEFORE using Plasma. This isnât a good solution for me. I am using Plasma sine 5.3 so for many, many, many years and stability of Plasma is not a problem for me. I had issues on the beginning, but it turned out to be some config problems and once everything was purged, the system became reliable.
So for years Plasma was a great experience for me, hence the surprise to see such a serious show stopping bug after the update.
There were some serious issues in the past, but I donât recall them at the moment. Usually, it was enough to jump to stable branch, stay there for a while, jump again to testing and those issues were gone. I hope the same will happen here.
Never heard of Ventoy. Iâll check it out. The problem with testing in Live system is that the issue happens randomly. It can happen after a few minutes or many hours or even days. I have personalized workflow and settings, so vanilla OSes arenât working for me, at least not for hours. I really prefer to fix the current system on the bare metal and this worked well for me past last 8 years. My OS install is that long and even propagated into various machines , so I wouldnât have to setup everything from scratch.
As to Plasma settings, I did purged Plasma configs after upgrade to Plasma 6, since it was needed to fix things. I donât recall purging cache, so this is a thing I can try, but since I am working for so many months without issues, I doubt it would help, but it doesnât hurt to try.
And yeah, I thought about the cursor issue where to report it too, and came to the same conclusion that Plasma and specifically kwin is responsible for it, so Iâll look for the reports there. Hopefully, someone noticed it as well and posted it.