What's the best easy KDE-based Linux distro these days?

posted 1 year ago

I’m not a beginner anymore, but I’m much less interested in technical tinkering for its own sake than I used to be. These days I just want my computer to work properly without too much intervention from me.

I’ve been using Kubuntu for a number of years, but I’m also hearing increasing complaints about how Canonical is running things. I don’t think I’m ready to switch to a new distro yet, but it wouldn’t hurt to know what’s out there.

Is Kubuntu still a good choice for an “it just works” KDE-based distro, or has it been surpassed?

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Andy@programming.dev

2 points

1 year ago

For managing non-distro versions of language runtimes I suggest rtx.

$ cat .tool-versions
python     system
nodejs     latest
rust       system
elm        latest

$ rtx current
python system
node 20.5.0
rust system
elm 0.19.1

$ rtx local go@latest  # go gets installed
$ which go
/home/andy/.local/share/rtx/installs/go/1.21.0/go/bin/go

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themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works

2 points

1 year ago

Very nice!

Unfortunately my go use case requires my go install to be default (I patch it to gradually remove dependencies on the kernel - it’s not going well) but for anyone doing something sane this should be very useful.

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