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[–] jayandp 19 points 2 years ago (13 children)

What's the current reliable KDE Distro? I've been rolling with Kububtu for a while now, but Ubuntu's Snap mandate has been getting annoying.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have been enjoying OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. It's a rolling distro unlike the Ubuntu and Debian derivatives, but the updates hardly ever cause problems and it's very easy to roll them back if they do. It also gives you a choice between X11 and Wayland, and Wayland is working well for me on Intel graphics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

I jumped into Tumbleweed recently and have really been liking it. Last time I used Linux with a desktop environment I was using Gnome and KDE was a lot unglier. Things have definitely changed.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I would recommend the KDE spin of Fedora.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Second but I use Nobara with KDE.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Second. Up-to-date packages and stable at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Tumbleweed is pretty much the "official" kde distro

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

KDE Neon gets the latest package updates regarding KDE first but it is not official in any sense, as listed on their website. In fact, Neon is just a package archive built on top of Ubuntu that offers more up to date KDE stuff.

I have used the distro as a daily driver in the past. It uses it's own pkgcon package management system.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fedora KDE Spin works pretty well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can confirm. I’ve been running it on my M1 MacBook Pro and it’s quite nice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If you want something Ubuntu-based I'd recommend KDE Neon, last time I tried it, it was great. I don't think it has snaps since it's made by KDE.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Endeavour switched to KDE as their main DE

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Most likely the best distro for KDE is KDE neon, but that doesn't mean that much.

I use it on Debian testing and am very satisfied with it, KDE has never been so stable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm using Kubuntu as my main OS and it has been very stable for me. You can remove snapd and install the deb Firefox repository. You should look up tutorials on how to do it, I did it and nothing broke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I use it in Garuda. No complains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I for one hope to move from kubuntu to debian with KDE, I assume that won't have snap shit or systemd shit, but I might be painfully mistaken right there, I haven't checked it out yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Debian does use systemd, but what's so bad about it? I'm just curious, I'm using Arch with KDE, and that also uses systemd. Never had any issues with it. Debian doesn't use snap by default though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

MX does not use systemd by default

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Fedoras flavor with KDE. Fedora never caused an issue for me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Manjaro is pretty good.