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  • Why not try it for yourself on Linux mint first by installing plasma? Plasma 5 is available on mint - I believe Fedora has plasma 6.

    I use plasma 6 on my Opensuse Slowroll laptop and plasma 5 on my LMDE desktop.

    Overall, I’ve found plasma 6 to run slightly better (I was on plasma 5 on Slowroll too for a long time).

    Once you install and try plasma 5 on your current install, that will be a much less disruptive way to see how well it works for you.

    After ricing, both plasma 5 and 6 are pretty similar on my setup. The cube desktop effect isn’t there by default on plasma 5 of course.









  • No software is guaranteed to run on all platforms: the developers choose to make it available or not.

    I did some quick googling, and it seems fairly easy to install it:

    Use Ubuntu (if you’re not familiar with, and don’t want to be familiar with terminal basics), and install chirp from the Ubuntu App store. Snap is just a name of their package format, and their app store links to snap craft.

    If you’re not using Ubuntu, that’s your choice, you’ll either have to install snap, then do the same, but it’s more work. Or play with the terminal just a bit to follow their instructions.

    Details

    If you’re on Ubuntu or have snap installed - it’s a one click operation to install chirp: https://snapcraft.io/chirp-snap

    If you’re on another distribution by choice: https://chirp.danplanet.com/projects/chirp/wiki/ChirpOnLinux

    this page has a 3 step install for mainstream Linux distributions:

    1. Install dependencies (they’ve listed the commands)
    2. Install chirp and Python dependencies (commands provided)
    3. Run chirp