KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone, reaching roughly 85% of the planned work by the start of November. KDE developer Nate Graham outlined the distribution’s latest progress in his monthly report covering changes made during October.
The installer now includes a basic slideshow for first-time installations. The feature follows a familiar approach used by installers for other Linux distributions and provides additional visual information during setup.
KDE Linux also enables the NTSYNC kernel module by default. According to the project update, this is intended to improve the out-of-the-box experience and performance for users running Windows games on Linux through Wine or Proton.
On the desktop side, the wayland-protocols package has been added to the KDE Linux base image. The change expands support for KDE projects that depend on those protocols.
Several tasks remain before the beta milestone can be completed. The outstanding work includes swap support, improvements to the update experience in Discover, changes to KDE infrastructure, a better dual-booting experience and improved handling of Flatpak crashes, along with other refinements.
Sources: Phoronix.