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Rawhide + KDE Plasma/Gear/Builder Stack Git!

  There used to be a "Kinoite-nightly" image at  https://gitlab.com/fedora/ostree/ci-test/-/pipelines  that combined Kinoite Rawhide and KDE Git versions of Plasma and Gear based on COPR repos maintained by solopasha.  However those COPR repos had not been updated in months and so the "nightly" version stopped being produced. Recently KDE developer silverhadch produced a nightly build of KDE Git versions of Plasma, Gear and a full developer stack based on Universal Blue's base image (no small amount of work to make that happen!).  You can find it at  https://github.com/silverhadch/ublue-kde-dx .  Universal Blue takes its time to adopt new Fedora versions.  So it makes a perfect choice for users looking for the latest KDE on a thoughtful base image. My preference, however is to use a Rawhide base (bleeding edge + bleeding edge!).  I also prefer a "stock" Fedora base without the choices made by Universal Blue (i.e., Bazaar vs. Discover). So I f...