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What's the best easy KDE-based Linux distro these days? (kbin.social)
submitted 3 years ago by 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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[–] 1 point 3 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

    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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