Jonathan Riddell is continuing to improve the KDE Neon Linux distribution with the latest Open Source software and GNU/Linux technologies, and he had the pleasure to announce the availability of a new development version of KDE Neon Developer Edition.
Tomorrow, we should be able to get our hands on the Beta release of the upcoming KDE Plasma 5.9 desktop environment, but KDE Neon users can already test drive it if they download the new KDE Neon Developer Unstable Edition operating system, which also switches to the next-generation Wayland display server.
“Plasma is nearing a new release and with 5.9 coming shortly we have the question of should we switch Neon to use Wayland by default for the Developer Unstable edition. To evaluate it I updated the Plasma Wayland ISO and found it pleasingly functional on VirtualBox. Time to install this setup on my real hardware and see what breaks,” said Jonathan Riddell.
Users report issues with the new Plasma Wayland ISO
Looking at the comments posted by various users on the developer’s announcement, we can’t help but notice that many of them are reporting issues when attempting to run the new Plasma Wayland ISO image of KDE Neon Developer Edition. Some are not even able to get past the login screen, others say some things are still missing.