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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

GNOME on Arch is a special thing. Unlike KDE and other DEs, GNOME arrives in like 3-4 weeks after the official release

[–] heygooberman@lemmy.today 8 points 8 months ago (6 children)

For my own learning and understanding, why does it take that long for GNOME on Arch?

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Afaik they're waiting for version xx.1 with bug fixes. Idk if GNOME is unstable in xx.0 and idk why it has such a special place on Arch but what I do know is that Plasma 6 is quite bad now with its 6.0.2 so I guess this delay is a good idea because I'm a GNOME user and I want stable experience

[–] bittin@social.vivaldi.net 2 points 8 months ago

@GolfNovemberUniform @heygooberman Plasma 6.0.3 is out on Tuesday next week upstream and GNOME 46.1 is out sometime in April

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