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Written by Jarek Rozanski ➡️ Wide Angle 📊 on 2024-11-02 at 22:31

What is the best (subjective) distro with KDE as default?

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Written by Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: on 2024-11-02 at 23:27

@jarek In my opinion the best GNU/Linux distro with KDE Plasma is openSUSE Tumbleweed. It has KDE software well integrated and as it is a rolling release it has latest releases quickly. And it heavily uses QA so they test packages before being released into repositories so it is also one of the most stable rolling release distros. And if despite this something goes wrong there is BTRFS snappshoting integrated into package management and GRUB, so it is easy to revert to a working one

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Written by alto on 2024-11-02 at 23:45

@JRepin @jarek i would strongly contest the claim that tumbleweed is a very stable rolling release distro. I've ran it with KDE since August and I've had at least 5 instances where I had to reboot multiple times to get back to my desktop, for instance having the login manager crash, and KDE forgetting settings, as well as the system not booting properly at all. I'm really not impressed and am just foaming at the mouth to get my hands on Slowroll instead.

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Written by Jure Repinc :linux: :kde: on 2024-11-02 at 23:54

@alto @jarek Not my experience at all. and I am running it for about two years now on three computers. On one computer even have it with KDE Unstable repositories enabled. And in all this time it only happened two times I had to boot into a previous snapshot. One time because Mesa had some bug specific to my video card and it would crash. And one time because there was something wrong with QML caches incompatibility or something.

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Written by alto on 2024-11-04 at 10:16

@JRepin @jarek Got another example just now. I tried updating Tumbleweed on my laptop after leaving it for another 2 weeks because the last update broke KDE.

After updating I got this:

• Rebooting after update the computer went into recovery mode and then booted into BIOS. Rebooting again got it back to grub.

• After the update the KDE login manager doesn't work, after entering my password it hangs and doesn't get to the desktop.

At this point I'm truly apprehensive to update this system.

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