Where do I download the kinoite-main .iso? Also, some Aurora thoughts

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I installed Aurora because I wanted a Plasma image with X11 packages installed. However, Aurora did not contain the X11 packages and I think I’d might as well go with kinoite-main (which I’ve used and liked before).

Where do I find the .iso file for it? Seems it should be here, but I can’t find it.

Why not Aurora? Something I disliked about Aurora was the inclusion of GTK apps for what I’d call basic operation. Ptyxis has replaced Konsole, when Distrobox works very well with the built in “Profiles” features in Konsole.

Warehouse and Flatseal were installed, but there’s already the excellent built-in KDE ”Flatpak Permissions” in System Settings.

I’m rather picky when it comes to adhering to the KDE HIG and I find that these GTK apps look completely of place in Plasma. However, I should probably learn to ignore these apps. :slightly_smiling_face: kinoite-main had what I needed (except X11) when I ran it months ago though. X11 will be layered.

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I don’t believe UBlue base images are released as .iso. For a completely fresh install, you will have to install vanilla Kinoite then rebase to UBlue’s Kinoite following the steps in this documentation. Or just rebase directly from your existing Aurora image. Then layer plasma-workspace-x11, as I believe Fedora doesn’t include X11 anymore as they’re transitioning to Wayland.

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Thanks! I decided to stay with Aurora. Less work.

Correct. It will also be removed from default repos in Fedora 41, from what I’ve heard.

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Yes

Is there something from x11 which is not available or broken in xWayland?

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Yes, color management.

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aha. If you can hold out a couple days, you may be in luck. Plasma 6.1 has just been released and is filtering down to fedora 40 and the images.

take a look at this article (and pull quote):

essentially achieves the same effect as an sRGB clamp or the “novideo_srgb” feature on Windows, but in a more integrated and seamless manner.

No more struggling with third-party tools or workarounds - Plasma 6.1 handles color management out of the box