jerrythegenius, (edited )
@jerrythegenius@lemmy.world avatar

Fedora kde spin, kubuntu (ubuntu but with kde), kde neon (kde’s distro). I’ve never used neon or kubuntu as a daily driver (just when I was looking for a distro) although they are supposed to be quite good, but I use fedora gnome as a daily driver and fedora kde should be fairly similar. You can also use distrochooser to find a distro that suits.

Molten_Moron,

Well, judging by the fact that it gave me my favorite (and current (Mint)) distro on the first try, I’ll say this tool is pretty solid lol

Beefytootz,

Kde neon isn’t bad. If I’m remembering right, it’s based on Ubuntu and made by the kde team

Jumuta,

neon is amazing

Ozy,

I think fedora kde is the one you should go with.

If you go with kubuntu you’ll be using snaps by default (which can be removed entirely with some tweaking) and they aren’t actually good (as with the recent steam issues)

WindowsEnjoyer,

Anything *ubuntu is not good for gaming.

MyNameIsRichard,
@MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml avatar

openSUSE Tumbleweed. It’s rolling and reliable.

TheGrandNagus,

Fedora KDE spin.

agelord,

KDE Neon

narc0tic_bird,

Rolling release: openSUSE Tumbleweed Semi-annual release: Fedora KDE Spin LTS: Kubuntu (3 years), Debian (5 years), AlmaLinux (10 years)

I personally think semi-annual is where it’s at. You get packages that are mostly up-to-date (and with Flatpak user-facing software is up-to-date anyway), and you don’t have to fear that something will break/be incompatible with every small update.

leopold,

Kubuntu is also semi-annual, but LTS releases only come every two years. Regular releases have a year and a half of support.

FQQD,
@FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz avatar

Feren OS. A bit more unknown, but it’s pretty good.

BlanK0,

Fedora kde

Presi300,
@Presi300@lemmy.world avatar

TuxedoOS

bdonvr,

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.

Blaze,
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

That what I use, and it’s perfect

Bombastic,

MX Linux with KDE?

If you have an AMD machine it even has a “advanced hardware system” iso for high end pcs

mitram2,

You have to reinstall mxlinux every time a new debian version comes out. Not really “normie” IMHO.

camr_on,
@camr_on@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve had an excellent experience with endeavor OS, which can install KDE as well as some other DEs from the installation options. It’s based on arch

cmgvd3lw,

Endeavour OS with KDE

chillsmeit, (edited )

Normie and Arch based don’t fit together in the same sentence tbh

drndramrndra, (edited )

stable

without issues

Arch

IrritableOcelot,

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.

comicallycluttered, (edited )

Yeah, Kubuntu’s fine. It has some of the Snap stuff, but the “minimal install” greatly strips down unnecessary bullshit to the point where I even find vanilla Debian Plasma to be more bloated in comparison.

I used Kubuntu for most of my time on Linux before switching to Debian. Still fully recommend it as a basically “plug and play” distro with a quick installer that works OOTB.

There’s also a KDE-specific backports PPA which gets you new Plasma and Qt stuff fairly quickly, but that works best on regular releases rather than LTS releases. (The only issue is that, because it uses Launchpad, the Plasma updates can be super fucking slow to download, regardless of your network speed).

Then again, if someone’s going to be using LTS versions only, there’s not really that much of a difference between it and Debian Stable in terms of DE updates.

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