Use KDE neon development or add Kubuntu PPA. Ya I added kubuntu beta ppa, I wasn't able to wait till 8th Feb of KDE plasma 5.24 release :) You could add the kde neon testing repos and you will get even more kde updates! I think KDE neon is based on Ubuntu 20.04 lts so I think using KDE neon repos on Ubuntu 21.10 may be risky I suppose. Here we will not only see the list of best Linux Desktop environments for Ubuntu but also the commands to install them quickly…. On the Page hide. Best Graphical user interface for Ubuntu Linux. Deepin DDE. Xfce. KDE Plasma Desktop Environment. Pantheon Desktop. Budgie desktop. Cinnamon. DISCLAIMER: Today we are bringing you the preview version of KDE’s Plasma 5.25 desktop release. Plasma 5.25 Beta is aimed at testers, developers, and bug-hunters. To help KDE developers iron out bugs and solve issues, install Plasma 5.25 Beta and test run the features listed below. Please report bugs to our bug tracker. Here are the instructions to install plasma-bigscreen on Ubuntu 21.10 or 22.04. 21.10 requires the KDE Beta PPA for KDE 5.24 to be added to install correctly, Install Ubuntu 22.04 LTS vs Ubuntu 20.04 LTS – Feature Difference. 1. Logo, Colors and Plymouth. The first visual change you notice is the base accent colour of Ubuntu changes to more “Orange” compared to two earlier “brown-orange”. Also, Canonical changed the Ubuntu official logo from this release onwards, and it is visible right from the Now that Kinetic is end of life, it is possible to allow opt in backports of plasma 5.27 for 22.04. As with the previous backport of plasma 5.25, 5.27 is provided in the backports-extra PPA. This PPA is intended to be used in combination with our standard backports PPA, but should also work standalone. As usual with our PPAs, there is the If you download and use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and add the kubuntu-desktop or just KDE Plasma; you'll still find yourself in the same position; ie. your base Ubuntu system will get upgrades for 5 years, but KDE/Plasma will cease when Kubuntu reaches EOL. Yes it's possible that an upgrade can occur after EOL; eg. in 16.04 the Kubuntu team applied an For 24.04, assuming plasma 5.27, I would anticipate staying with X11. For previous LTS releases we have dropped shipping the wayland session as an installed alternative, as users have the tendency to assume that if it is in the sddm session menu then it is fully supported; instead leaving it to users to install the plasma-workspace-wayland packages themselves if they want to try it out. Tj3SI.