Mark

My install instructions for KDE 6 Wayland on FreeBSD have been updated.

First of all I changed the base to KDE and KDE base apps, instead of just a very minimal install. This follows the recommended install by KDE more closely.

Second: the additional browser of choice (with Librewolf in the overall setup already) has been changed to Vivaldi and I have included a how-to-update the script and make Vivaldi run under FreeBSD.

Which you can apply anywhere on FreeBSD of course ;-)

Thanks to all for the positive feedback!

https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/pages/src/branch/main/FreeBSD%20and%20Plasma%206%20install

#freebsd #kde #vivaldi

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Sep 10, 2025 at 12:33pmWeb
Show threadDoc Ame Norberg Sep 10, 2025
@thesaigoneer wait what do you MEAN FreeBSD has Wayland?
Show threadMarkSep 10, 2025

@doq
It certainly has ;-) Let me put it this way: KDE is late to the party ☺️
There is a very active 'group' that's bringing the latest and greatest of window managers to FreeBSD. Like niri, hyprland, river, dwl, you name it. A hidden gem!

@lme

Show threadboredsquirrelSep 10, 2025

@thesaigoneer

Interesting! While Vivaldi is cool, I wouldnt trust a proprietary Chromium-based browser, but nice that this works (now?)

Show threadMarkSep 11, 2025
@Rhababerbarbar Yes, my toot wasn't clear on that and I have edited it: Vivaldi is additional, since Librewolf is already in my 'base-install'. Thanks 👍🏻
Show threadKara ZaimSep 11, 2025

@thesaigoneer great job!

But, #kde should remove messages like this one:
kf.kio.gui: Failed to determine systemd version, falling back to extremely legacy forking mode.

Not everyone is running systemd.