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Thank you for this. From the replies in both of my posts, I'm leaning towards either tumbleweed or bazzite/aurora. Both seem great, but maybe tumbleweed is slightly ahead in my mind. I'll probably try 2 or 3 distros anyway.

Thanks, I'll probably prefer aurora then for plasma.

Thanks for the review. Like you said, hardware may or may not be a concern. I built this pc years ago with windows in mind and I plan to build one again at some point. With people praising the non-Debian distros in my list, I might just go that route and see how it goes.

Good to know. Pop OS doesn't have anything like that as far as I know, and that would be nice to have.

Well KDE was more important to me than rolling releases, plus they were Debian based which I liked. I have heard good things about bazzite, I'll have to check it out. Tumbleweed was my first choice for a non-Debian distro in that list, so I'm glad you're confirming my hunch that it would be great for KDE. I'm okay with ditching Debian-based if it means a better experience in the end.

Yeah I've heard that pop OS has great Nvidia support out of the box, more so than most other distros. I do like your idea of mint Debian edition though. I'm already a fan of mint but didn't want their slower kernel and software releases. I eventually want to build a new pc with amd hardware instead of intel/Nvidia. Maybe the right play is to stick with pop until that happens.

I did, which is why KDE is a hard requirement here. But pop OS and its many useful tools are dependent on gnome so I feel the need to switch distros to one that isn't packaged with an entire suite of software I don't want to use, and one that has more common support for KDE.

I do gaming and work. Work is mostly web browsing and discord. Most of my time is spent in a game or Firefox. I use steam, lutris and a few flatpak launchers like bolt for osrs and prism for minecraft. Amongst others. I use many other apps, but none as extensively as those.

I have seen bazzite here and there but haven't checked it out yet, thanks for the recommendation. I have stayed away from gaming-centric distros so far as many of them are made by a small team and have a small community which means there's no guarantee of finding support for a specific issue or no guarantee it will be updated into the future.

But... I want to click things.

Incredible. I guess I have a list of apps to avoid now. Thanks.

Very nice. I haven't even looked, are there any other popular fully featured weather apps native to Linux?

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