Looking for a normie KDE distro that works out of the box and is stable without issues.

  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    You’re going to get a million answers, mostly people saying to use which distro they’re currently using. In my experience, KDE works just fine on any distro that allows you to install it out of the box, so I would choose based on other attributes of the distro, such as:

    • Package manager: which are you used to?
    • Update cycle: KDE 6 is out soon, so you want something which updates often enough to get it fairly quickly (at least semiannual).
    • Stability: unless you want to have to manually maintain your system and learn how it works, avoid arch and arch-based distros. I have run it, its fine, but it’s not “normie”, and unless you really know what you’re doing, daily driving it can be stressful. Manjaro has the same issues, but takes away some ability of the user to fix them.

    For instance, I personally like Debian and apt, but I would not recommend base Debian right now, since KDE 6 is about to come out and Debian will take a loooong time to get it. I have not personally used Kubuntu, but if it gets rid of any the bloat canonical has been adding to Ubuntu lately, it sounds pretty good to me.

  • bdonvr@thelemmy.club
    1·
    1 year ago

    OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, great KDE defaults - up to date - stable. Does things a bit differently than most distros but it’s pretty easy to get used to.

  • blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
    1·
    1 year ago

    Kubuntu is most normie. Its just Ubuntu but with KDE instead of Gnome. KDE Neon has the latest KDE but the update process is a mess so I can’t recommend it.

    Personally I use EndeavourOS with KDE and find it very easy. Updates are literally just typing yay. But I understand that Arch based distros aren’t for everyone.

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
    11·
    1 year ago

    Fedora Kinoite, specifically the version from universal-blue.org.

    It comes with all codecs (and even baked in Nvidia-driver if you want!).

    Why that and not the normal (mutable) Fedora Workstation KDE spin?

    • Very simple by default. You basically only “own” your home directory, the rest is indestructible and taken care of.
    • Has less bugs due to better reproducibility, and if something major should break, you can easily roll back without any waiting time (as opposed to Tumbleweed)
    • And you can even rebase to Bazzite, a gaming distro, that’s based on the uBlue KDE version, or any other spin it you want cleanly
    • Pantherina@feddit.de
      11·
      1 year ago

      This. Or, nowadays secureblue Kinoite!

      Its a hardened Variant of ublue kinoitr, but I tested it and especially using the “userns” variants, a lot works

      • flatpak
      • virtual machines
      • fingerprint sensor

      “userns” means user namespaces, a technology used by browsers, flatpak and Podman/Docker/Toolbox/Distrobox to create Sandboxes, isolating processes. It is used by default on Fedora, so these variants are pretty much like regular Fedora.

      Dont think a secure Distro is user-unfriendly. It works pretty normal, but is simply way more secure.

      If you want to use Firefox or Torbrowser, install their binaries.

      https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Recommended-Flatpak-Apps

  • Teon@kbin.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I highly recommend Kubuntu. I don’t use any snaps though. And I always install the LTS version. Been using it for over a dozen years.

      • Display Name@lemmy.ml
        11·
        1 year ago

        How more normie could it be? You install all graphical apps via flatpak and since flathub uses reverse domain names it’s much easier to install via the store than on terminal

        And want to switch to another DE? don’t reinstall your whole system, just replace the base layer.

  • ReCursing@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m using Manjaro because SuSE Tubleweed didn’t want to install that day. People like to hate on Manjaro but I honestly don’t know why - the defaults are fine and I very rarely have issues despite using software from the AUR

      • ReCursing@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        It has been 442d 15h 07m 53s since Manjaro !$%&?*# up.

        So a year and a half? That’s not all that bad really. And that time it was a (admittedly bloody stupid) cock up involving the SSL certificate of their website not of the distro itself

        • null@slrpnk.net
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          1 year ago

          Sure, maybe they’re better now, but this long list is why the reputation stuck.

          That and EndeavourOS exists