I'm not sure exactly what the fuck happened, but I updated my machine last night before going to bed. And all of a sudden, I lost access to all of my system settings. I don't have customization controls. I can't manage my default applications. And it's a weird mixture between KDE 6 and 5. Rolling back to 5 has been a massive pain in the ass and has gotten me nowhere. And trying to upgrade fully to 6 has also gotten me nowhere.
Discussion
I'm wondering if I should just abandon KDE and install gnome and hope that that fixes the problem.
It's just frustrating because everything was fine until I updated last night.
And I've been trying to solve this all day, pretty much going in circles, getting nothing fucking done.
Computers were a god damn mistake.
Not a fan of KDE. God speed on your system recovery.
at this point, I'm ready to abandon it and switch to gnome because holy hell this has been a huge clusterfuck
What distro are you running? Fedora?
Debain 13.
And the main repos for Debian 13 has this mixture of KDE 5 and 6, and I think that's partially what's causing the problem, because my system settings looks like it's on version 5, and yet most of the modules installed are from version 6, and they can't see each other or talk to each other.
Understood. I have never been burned with GNOME, and I also prefer it—purist style—as it's integrated into Fedora.
I cannot have my daily driver braking like this on updates. 😅
half assed rolling distro upgrades probably?
I use OpenSUSE which has btrfs snapshots with a separate /home, and had to roll back 2 months when I realized I accidentally fucked up the package manager