Hi there. I m changing away from windows. I already tested some stuff. I started with fedora GNOME. But GNOME wasn’t for me I felt. So I did go with Linux mint cinnamon. That felt better but not as snappy and fast as fedora. Then I did go with fedora KDE plasma and man I like KDE plasma. That’s a thing for me. Then I tried because of recommendations popos with cosmic. I don’t know why but it didn’t felt right. So another recommendation later I tried cachy is with KDE. KDE was good but catchy gave me some erros and problems so back to fedora with KDE.

Now my real question.

  1. Manjaro Linux is a European distro? Only I often see it with popos and Linux mint and fedora that these are good beginner distros? Is it stable? Customisation in KDE is the same everywhere I guess? Does many people use it? Is it really beginner friendly and snappy? Is it stable?
  2. Opensuse also has KDE but it seems that its not a beginner distro. Also online its not often spoken about. Is it harder to use? Or is it beginner friendly? Customisation KDE again. Is it stable or does it break often? Does many people use it.
  3. Fedora, manjaro, opensuse? Which off these with KDE is most beginner friendly and stable. Is used much so I can find help when something is going on. Customisable. Stable?

Or any other Good KDE Distros out there.

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
    71·
    2 days ago

    there’s:

    • KDE neon (sorta dodgy but always has the newest KDE release on top of ubuntu)
    • Kubuntu (KDE on ubuntu but a bit old)
    • Debian+KDE (KDE but a good few months old)

    I wouldn’t recommend manjaro, they’re very dodgy

    Opensuse is pretty good, iirc they have a GUI for most configuration items and you get the newest packages for everything. it’s like easier arch

    • iopq@lemmy.world
      72·
      2 days ago

      I don’t like any distros where I have to fight the system to get it to do what I want. And to install GrapheneOS I needed a normal Chromium, not snap (because of USB access). You won’t believe how much Ubuntu will fight you over this these days

      If I wanted to scour the web for a .deb I’d still be using Windows

      • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml
        1·
        1 hour ago

        I had this same issue and I was about to tweak out. I love mint and it really is the best OS out of the box with no tweaks but damn. Debian edition mint for the win. Ubuntu shit is nice but it introduces breakage every few updates and I hate debugging or fixing issues. I want shit to just work at this point. So I jumped ship to NIX and I really love it but there’s still some debugging occasionally. I guess that’s the norm with Linux. Pick your poison.

      • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
        7·
        2 days ago

        The distro itself is OK, and it’s fine if you switch to their “unstable” repositories so it directly mirrors Arch. Where the problems lie is in the admin. In the past they have:

        • Let their certificates expire and suggested that users put their clocks back to work around it, several times.
        • DDOSed the AUR with coding mistakes in pamac, at least twice.
        • Had controversy regarding their finances.
        • Other things that I can’t remember right now.

        They seem to have sorted themselves out as their have been no reports of mistakes recently. But trust once lost, is hard to regain.

        • PlatonicGin@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          22 hours ago

          Remember when they dropped hardware acceleration a few years ago? That was what got me to move off.

          • MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml
            2·
            13 hours ago

            Now that you come to mention it, I have a vague memory of a few distros doing that because of licencing issues.

      • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
        51·
        2 days ago

        they’ve had a few SSL certificate renewal issues and the way they dealt with that was very dodgy (asking to just ignore it)

        also manjaro beginners seem to often use the AUR which isn’t really supported for manjaro and break their install in the process

        • edel@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          2 days ago

          That was 3 years ago. I understand they made a mistake (twice) but ok since then. I think most of the Manjaro criticism is no longer warranted. All distros had made mistakes.

    • suoko@feddit.it
      21·
      2 days ago

      Kubuntu is not a bit old, currently is 6.3 while newest kde is 6.4 Iif you use an os for its SW and not its de, remember kubuntu let’s you access snaps, flat packs, appimagss and all tutorials for Ubuntu out there.