Yeah, got a new work laptop recently, MacBook Pro 16″, M3 Max/36GB/1TB. But Asahi Linux is not ready for M3 yet.
And I have VMware Fusion, then I tried a few linux distributions with arm64/aarch64 support.
KDE developers are working hard on Plasma 6 Wayland. See also KDE Plasma 6 Development Progressing Well, Plasma 6 Beta Possible In A Few Months and KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: “It’s Been Working Great!”.
For example, you can install Neon Developer Edition via KDE neon: Live Images. After installation, you can upgrade it to KDE/Plasma 6,
sudo apt update
sudo apt install neon-settings-2
sudo apt full-upgrade
See also Neon Unstable now using Qt 6 Builds of Frameworks and Plasma.
If you find any bug, please help to report to KDE bugtracker. Here is my first ticket recently.
With Manjaro(Arch based, Xfce edition), installed as a vm in VMware Fusion on macOS. You can install sway or sway-git.
sudo pacman -S sway
or
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/wlroots-git.git
cd wlroots-git
makepkg -si
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/swaybg-git.git
cd swaybg-git
makepkg -si
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/sway-git.git
cd sway-git
makepkg -si
If you want to use gnome-terminal,
sudo pacman -S gnome-terminal
Modify /etc/sway/config , the line
set $term foot
to
set $term gnome-terminal
Modify /usr/share/wayland-sessions/sway.desktop , the line
Exec=sway
to
Exec=env WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS=1 /usr/bin/sway
If you want to restart display manager to login again,
sudo systemctl restart lightdm
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