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It's based on Ubuntu LTS, so it's not for me. Doesn't make sense that you'd want a bleeding-edge DE on an old kernel and system stack. I mean, I can understand if you're a KDE dev and you want a stable base to dev and test on, but if you're just a power user who wants to play with the latest and greatest, then using Ububtu makes no sense at all.
I've used KDE Neon on my desktop pretty much since KDE Neon came to be. I don't care too much about having the latest kernel and libraries on that machine (the hardware is a decade old - support's not really getting better), and between the latest KDE and getting most of my other apps through snaps I've got the latest and greatest of what I care about there.
You poor soul.
What is it about Ubuntu LTS that makes it a hard pass?
“Up to date” and “LTS” are kind of antithetical
I don't really care if I'm running a kernel from 5 years ago as long as I'm still getting timely security updates. What I care about is having up to date versions of the apps I actually use day-to-day - through Flatpack, Docker or whatever, and I prefer to have an up to date WM cos it's something I interact with a lot.
you probably have old hardware in that case
the latest kernel releases greatly helped with the effiency of newer AMD and Intel (Hybrid) CPUs which can give you a longer battery usage on laptops
I just answered your question. If one wants latest up to date, LTS release-based distros are just not an option. You do you lol.
FWIW, I only reach out for Flatpak if I can’t find something natively. Unless you just use your DE as is without changing the look of things, making your apps look consistent is made pretty complicated by the requirement for your theme to be repackaged and distributed on flatpak. The sandboxed nature also can get annoying for certain types of apps (e.g. IDEs which tend to reach out for external tooling pretty often, etc). I also tend to trust my distro’s packagers a bit more than randos on flathub, but maybe that’s just me.
Is it? They provide LTS as a base since they don't want to deal with bleeding edge packages breaking something for end users or devs, but they manually override a few packages with their own to show off their latest work. Seems like a good deal.
TBH if I wanted stable I'd run Debian, bit yes I do not see the point being made by the OP of the comment.
The whole point of neon is to showcase the DE, they say as much on the website. Unless you’re super passionate about KDE Development, it’s probably not going to be for you
What distro do you recommend?
I also would like to know. I use KDE Neon right now, but a more up-to-date ubuntu base would be great. I just don't see a distro that does that and uses KDE. And I don't want to use a Canonical distro with all the stupid snaps and stuff