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> you can expect Debian to lag several minor versions behind.

Not necessarily forever, though. Bookworm got minor Plasma updates, so I wouldn't be surprised if Trixie does as well.


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jpetsolast Sunday at 12:52 AM

Bookworm stayed on Plasma 5.27.5 when Plasma shipped bugfix releases up to 5.27.12. Debian may have cherry-picked a handful of patches from there, but that's a lot of bugfixes missed on a release that was already super old.

Even at this point, Plasma 6.4 has been out for almost two months and 6.3 will not get any more updates ever. While everyone else is upgrading, Debian is going to be stuck on an already unsupported version for another two years or however much.

Debian is great for what it is, but you better hope you don't run into issues with your desktop environment because they will not be addressed.

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