What's Your BEST KDE Distro?

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[DMadVibes]

Oh, one really good thing about openSUSE: since they have this openQA and test everything before release, they usually don't get affected by critical bugs.
Recently on Arch Linux and other Rolling Release distros we saw a problem with people that couldn't use their machines because of a problem in a upgrade of the GRUB. It didn't affected openSUSE because they spotted it with the openQA and didn't update the GRUB package until it get fixed.
The same happens for Plasma, we didn't get the Plasma beta on the "official KDE beta repository" on the day that it was release because of a bug, it took some days until they release it on the repositories because of that bug.
Is because of these things that openSUSE is known by its stability, even on its rolling release distro.

[keyboard_g]

OpenSuse Tumbleweed was the first Wayland by default distro that I know of. Fedora followed a month or two later.

[ruenoak]

openSUSE also releases Argon and Krypton versions. Argon similar to KDE neon gives you the latest builds of KDE on a stable base, where as Krypton gives you the latest snapshot of tumbleweed with builds of the master branch of KDE.

[sharg]

I switched from Neon to Garuda about a year ago as my main distro. Absolutely love it, I get the power of Arch but without the headache.
Garuda's custom tools for management works very well and makes most maintenance task a breeze.
Example 1: If I use a secondary packet manager to install something odd I get an alert that I should update the whole system to keep the integrity.
Example 2: I messed up my install by installing something I shouldn't (well, in the wrong way). Reboot, choose an older snapshot, boot with that and got the question if I wanted a roll-back... Yes please and thus I was back to before my stupidity.

I really like the "rolling distro" concept as end user and will likely not go back to "version update".
I usually base my install on the "Dragonized" variant since I love the looks but I need to change the looks to something more traditional, not fond of hovering menus (I keep start button, activity tray etc on the left side due to today's stupidly wide monitors).

And from my experience their user forum is a good and pleasant one
I'm about to install a Linux system for my 75 year old neighbour (runs win 7 now), I'm leaning towards Garuda for him as well (but more likely the XFCE variant)

[pamus]

What Gnome is to Fedora, KDE is to Opensuse(Tumbleweed).

[tonycipto]

The best KDE distro is the one that have KDE run smoothly on your machine

[MD-ddtd]

Thank you for the video!

I would recommend Opensuse tumbleweed easily because like you said, it brings the latest version of plasma and kde framework but OpenSUSE has a great support of btrfs too. They made snapper, a tool that make it easy to rollback your system to an old snapshot.

Tumbleweed is not really an immutable OS like kinoite is, but I think it's a good compromise and easy to use OS if you want to be able to rollback when something bad happened.

Now thanks to you I want to try kinoite to make my own opinion about it.

[michadybczak]

I'm using Manjaro with Plasma and my OS install was 8, 5 years ago! So that means, it still works and there were no reinstalls in that time. Sure, there were some issues once in a while, but nothing that I couldn't fix. So Manjaro can be incredibly stable if you are familiar with the Manjaro and Arch, and know what you are doing. Manjaro is easy and nice, but still for more advanced users. Plus, if you are a developer, Manjaro has also KDE beta packages.

[xrZt]

OpenSUSE is a distro for someone who needs to get the work done, period.
Not only is it rock solid but it is also well designed and has very sane defaults out of the box. It just works!
And if it doesn't, there are snapper with btrfs to roll back to previous "working" snapshot if/when SHTF. I've been using it as my main distro (work and personal life) for almost 3 years now and I'm not planing on moving to anything else.

P.S.
OpenSUSE has it's own beer, I mean what other distro has/brews it's own beer?!

[mariozenarju]

Honestly, Kubuntu LTS. I've used it for years, and had absolutely zero reasons to hop from it. By default it's as good as it can get, and adding a few (legit) ppa's can turn it into a BEAST

[leonealvarengamachado]

Opensuse tumbleweed is just the best experience I have got in kde

[justinhall]

Been using KDE since version 2.0 days and in my opinion the best KDE distro is OpenSuSE Tumbleweed. Oh and Nico can I have different wallpapers for each virtual desktop back, please.... :)

[stancooper]

KDE Neon for me. It's been rock solid and I enjoy the combination of the latest and greatest KDE atop a stable LTS base.

[ebattleon]

I have been a MX Linux KDE Edition user for about four years and I never broken it in a way that forced a reinstall. Their custom toolset is rock solid and has not failed in bringing me back from the black screen of death. Great distro should have gotten a mention in my opinion.

[escapementwheel]

KDE Neon is just amazing. Moved to it from EndeavourOS and Neon just works!

[nico]

Home: Arch with KDE for >4 years now :) Currently on the 5.27 Beta
Work: Fedora KDE Spin with zawertun COPR repo for the latest and greatest

[Bob-of-Zoid]

I use EndeavourOS, an Arch bases distro, and they give you a choice of over 6 DE's. KDE Plasma is one of them and Endeavour installs it as is, other than EndeavourOS wallpapers, no changes from it's vanilla install as KDE packages it for Arch. You can customize it to your hearts content, as no matter what choices any distro may make for you, there just is no such thing as "One size fits all", and so many may not like what they get from any distro.

I love EndeavorOS, Arch and KDE PLasma! It makes my penguins happy! 🐧🐧🐧

[terlik]

If you haven't try OpenSUSE you should try it. Because IT WORK as solid as rock.

[guilherme]

For me:
OpenSUSE Leap (the best).
Kubuntu.
KDE Neon.

[kaziashrafulalam]

I think the flagship kde distro should be opensuse. Though i am using fedora kde .. switched from manjaro kde a week ago. Oddly faced some ui freezes and crashes in fedora kde while installing window button plasmoid and a cursor theme uninstalling them resolved the issue