What's the best easy KDE-based Linux distro these days? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by cacheson@kbin.social to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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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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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

As someone who can't quit KDE because of KDE connect, my go-to is debian. Debian 12 is an outstanding release, it's stable, and it works. The only gripe is that debian famously has later releases than most distros, which can be a problem if you need a recent version of say, go or rust (you can still install manually but apt exists for a reason), but in general it's not that bad and it's of course a tradeoff between recency and stability.

[-] RadicalKittenWanabe@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

You don't need to use KDE to use KDE connect. 😉

I am using it with i3wm.

Happy DM hoping. 😊

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Holy hell

[-] hairyballs@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

As said my sibling comment, I use KDE connect with GNOME shell

[-] Andy@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[-] 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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