The mental pretzel is finally over.
Maybe I’m a bit anal but it really does just sound like what we already knew.
I’ve used KDE Neon for a while as a typical end user and it works solidly. You get the nice upgrade cadence for the kernel and software, but rolling release for the one thing I care about in my distro - the desktop!
I will say, that if they don’t want to encourage people using KDE Neon as end users (I think it’s just a disclaimer but whatever) I wouldn’t ship it as the default distro for the KDE Slimbook; which is marketed at end users!
Yep, definitely what we already knew. I’m surprised to hear it’s the default on the Slimbooks actually; that sounds like exactly what they were trying to avoid with the way they pitched Neon.
I agree on Neon being great, I love KDE’s pace of updates. I read Nate’s blog every week religiously. I’m spoiled to the AUR these days, though. Just for that I can’t go back to non-arch based distro. Been rocking Manjaro and have the least headaches out of anything I’ve tried.
I’ve been daily driving it for years now. There have been a couple of issues during the Wayland transition which were fixed by unplugging and replugging a monitor but it’s just been really good.
Beats Kubuntu I guess, although I never really understood Neon’s appeal besides being a testbed. As far as “rolling” distros go, I think there are many alternatives that are more rolling and less rocky - as evidenced by the almost flawless transition from Plasma 5 to 6.0.1 on Arch. I also want to point to Sparky Linux’s “semi-rolling” release as a fantastic alternative based on Debian’s testing repos.
Wow. I haven’t used kde since 1999. Looks like it’s been the right choice.
