I’m curious how the community feels about KDE neon.
Kde connect will finally have the function to connect via bluetooth, I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.
omg really? I’ve been having to add my device by up bc for whatever reason my uni’s wifi, kde connect, and my phone do not play well together
Off topic, but what’s with the overprotective DO NOT COPY WITHOUT PERMISSION statement on the article image? It’s a screenshot of KDE, not the author’s own work…
Sue me
It’s based on Ubuntu LTS, so it’s not for me. Doesn’t make sense that you’d want a bleeding-edge DE on an old kernel and system stack. I mean, I can understand if you’re a KDE dev and you want a stable base to dev and test on, but if you’re just a power user who wants to play with the latest and greatest, then using Ububtu makes no sense at all.
What distro do you recommend?
I also would like to know. I use KDE Neon right now, but a more up-to-date ubuntu base would be great. I just don’t see a distro that does that and uses KDE. And I don’t want to use a Canonical distro with all the stupid snaps and stuff
The whole point of neon is to showcase the DE, they say as much on the website. Unless you’re super passionate about KDE Development, it’s probably not going to be for you
I’ve used KDE Neon on my desktop pretty much since KDE Neon came to be. I don’t care too much about having the latest kernel and libraries on that machine (the hardware is a decade old - support’s not really getting better), and between the latest KDE and getting most of my other apps through snaps I’ve got the latest and greatest of what I care about there.
… getting most of my apps through snap…
You poor soul.
What is it about Ubuntu LTS that makes it a hard pass?
user who wants to play with the latest and greatest
“Up to date” and “LTS” are kind of antithetical
I don’t really care if I’m running a kernel from 5 years ago as long as I’m still getting timely security updates. What I care about is having up to date versions of the apps I actually use day-to-day - through Flatpack, Docker or whatever, and I prefer to have an up to date WM cos it’s something I interact with a lot.
I just answered your question. If one wants latest up to date, LTS release-based distros are just not an option. You do you lol.
FWIW, I only reach out for Flatpak if I can’t find something natively. Unless you just use your DE as is without changing the look of things, making your apps look consistent is made pretty complicated by the requirement for your theme to be repackaged and distributed on flatpak. The sandboxed nature also can get annoying for certain types of apps (e.g. IDEs which tend to reach out for external tooling pretty often, etc). I also tend to trust my distro’s packagers a bit more than randos on flathub, but maybe that’s just me.
you probably have old hardware in that case
the latest kernel releases greatly helped with the effiency of newer AMD and Intel (Hybrid) CPUs which can give you a longer battery usage on laptops
TBH if I wanted stable I’d run Debian, bit yes I do not see the point being made by the OP of the comment.
Yeah ut does anyone know when it will arrive in other distros’ repos, e.g Fedora, Arch and NixOS?
Not sure about Fedora, but it’s already in
extra-testingin Arch and has already been merged intomasterin NixOS apparently, so it should be hitting the general channels pretty soon hopefully.Edit: apparently the Fedora 40 beta has Plasma 6 but I didn’t check that myself, I just saw someone mention it.
Seems you’re right, as I saw The Linux Experiment was using the Fedora 40 Beta to test Plasma 6 for his review
Neon works great for me.
- I prefer Debian derived distros (RH derivatives are fine as a technology, but I’ve been using Debian derivatives for so long that RedHat feels like coming home and finding someone has rearranged your cutlery drawer and all your plates - I don’t care if your system makes more sense, in sure I’d get used to it but right now I can’t find anything!)
- I do most of my work in Docker or using tools I install from upstream
- I don’t really play games so don’t care about marginal performance gains from newer drivers
Pretty much I just want a laptop that just works when I need it to, while still having a nice, friendly, modern interface and Neon does that.
Does Neon provide beta or stable packages of Kde 6 ?
The have 3 editions: User (stable, released packages), Testing (using stable version branches with updates, but not released/tested yet), Unstable (using development branches with new features, untested and not released yet)
it’s like linux mint but for kde
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Because, as you said, it looks good…? It docks itself to the screen edges when you maximize a window, so you still get the same screen real estate.
