I’m 3 days into my reinstall of EndeavourOS with Plasma 6 on my NVIDIA gaming laptop. I updated to Plasma 6.0.3 yesterday, and I’ve just updated to QT 6.6.3 this morning. Everything for the Plasma Wayland session using NVIDIA’s proprietary drivers, and the settings outline in the NVIDIA Arch Wiki, have been running smoothly! I haven’t had any random Plasma shell crashes, the panel no longer locks up, native Linux games and Proton games on Steam no longer flicker wildly, and I no longer get artifacts all over my desktop when I resume from sleep. Great job Plasma development team, Arch/EndeavourOS developers, and my fellow Plasma 6 alpha/beta testers!
If you’re still having problems after upgrading your EndeavourOS Plasma 5 desktop to Plasma 6, you might still have a lot of Plasma 5 related junk installed on your system. Please read:
If you can spare the time, I suggest backing up your personal data, then doing a complete reinstall of EndeavourOS with an online install of Plasma 6.
For all of you (on other distributions) that are still on the fence about upgrading to Plasma 6, the transition is a lot smoother than you think. However, you have to take into account that you NEED to remove all Plasma 5 add-ons/modification, and return your Plasma desktop to default prior to upgrading.