When I switched to trixie lxde was not yet available, therefore I have been working with lxqt (x11) for almost a year now. With your message I realised there is lxde for trixie. Since the mirroring problem I found myself looking for a wayland "windowmanager" a few weeks ago. Installing labwc and the sid-package "lxqt-wayland-session" you can use lxqt with wayland. I have been using lxqt/wayland for a few days now. Some functions are missing (I do miss the oxygen mouse cursors in wayland). Can't say much about stability yet. So YMMV. If you lookup lxqt/wayland on github you'll find it is a recent development, somewhere between alpha and beta stage. However if your strict on kde, lxqt might not be for you since it is qt-based (althought the looks of lxde are mostly similar).

@NiTr0 I guess transferring the dtb to official armbian kernel 6.12.43 will work. Most of warpme’s collection of patches are already in the official armbian build. There might be some differences. the reason I use warpme patches is because he’s usually quick at porting his patches to the latest kernel versions. I made a 6.18 build but I haven’t had time to test it yet. Don’t worry about those wifi errors it will work fine.

kernel update actually works, I'm now on -current mainline kernel (-edge works OK too); trouble is only in .dtb in mainline package # uname -a Linux transpeed-8k618-t 6.12.43-current-sunxi64 #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 16:30:58 UTC 2025 aarch64 GNU/Linux thanks; there are brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin and brcmfmac4334-sdio.rockchip,rk3318-box.txt; I've renamed them to brcmfmac4334-sdio.transpeed,8k618-t.bin and brcmfmac4334-sdio.txt - wifi appears in device list, there are some strange messages in dmesg but I think it'll work ok [23108.014126] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio for chip BCM4334/3 [23108.023494] brcmfmac mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4334-sdio.clm_blob failed with error -2 [23108.214552] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_clm_blob: no clm_blob available (err=-2), device may have limited channels available [23108.214581] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_process_txcap_blob: no txcap_blob available (err=-2) [23108.214910] brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcmds: Firmware: BCM4334/3 wl0: Jul 24 2019 12:58:36 version 6.10.191 (TOB) (r) FWID 01-b049404e

Well, I do think X11 is going to fall behind at some point if it continues to lack support of new things. I don't know the status for gaming on Wayland. I use lutris and wine to play WoW. Which doesn't yet work on these machines. Perhaps with 6.16. I'm an Xmonad user and I wouldn't touch gnome or kde with a ten foot pole. I'll use fvwm2 in a pinch. So far there isn't a "wm" on Wayland that compares to Xmonad, and I wouldn't use hypr land or any thing related to it for politics. Nasty people. Sway is the most promising at the moment, but it is too close to i3 which is too limited. There is no way Xmonad will become a compositor. So something has to happen. Not using 2 screens might be the easiest. I don't need two. But the Nanopi m6 has two. I can just get another without a screen and use this one as a server. Just living in the increasingly limited realm of X11 seems to be the thing to do unless I want to write a compositor. I've thought about adding compositing abilities to emacs. Someone has done a bit of that. Might be politically difficult to get it in. It would also mean writing a new Exwm. I'll just hang on to X because Wayland still doesn't meet my needs, and it has nothing capable of replacing what I have on X.

@emor acid Here's some information on H616/H618 ethernet phy. This is the 100Mbit ethernet built inside the H618 SOC. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-sunxi/20250526002924.2567843-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com/T/#t In your dmesg log it shows your box is loading a generic phy. It should be loading the Allwinner phy. For example @NiTr0 logs above. Your box might be using a 1000Mbit external ethernet chip. If that's the case your dts settings will be very different. You'll need check if your box supports Gigabit Ethernet and find the Ethernet chip on your board. @NiTr0 Just freeze the kernel updates using armbian-config. My armbian build is unofficial so you can't use the official armbian kernels. I'm using patches created by warpme and my own custom patches. So the kernel update feature will not work. https://www.google.com/search?q=armbian+config+freeze+kernel&oq=armbian+config+freeze+kernel&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOdIBCDY4MDJqMGo3qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 For wifi your box is looking for You need find the brcmfmac4334 bin file and rename it to brcmfmac4334-sdio.transpeed,8k618-t.bin. Also, the brcmfmac4334 txt to brcmfmac4334-sdio.txt. I think it's already in /lib/firmware/brcm under a different name.