Where is KDE's home? [LWN.net]

Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 17, 2024 23:03 UTC (Sun) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
Parent article: Fedora KDE gets a promotion

Interested by running the "latest" KDE release with minimal effort, I've always wondered which Linux distribution is the most popular among KDE _developers_? Is it Fedora already?

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Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 18, 2024 8:02 UTC (Mon) by vrischmann (guest, #123272) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't actually know but maybe Neon ? https://neon.kde.org

Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 21, 2024 15:35 UTC (Thu) by benjamin051000 (subscriber, #173676) [Link]

Tough to say...

https://neon.kde.org/faq#who-is-it-for states the following:

> Please note that the focus of the "User" edition is still KDE software *only*. There is no thorough review of the complete software stack to guarantee a rock solid day-to-day experience.

Many believe KDE Neon is a little too unstable for everyday usage.

Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 21, 2024 15:41 UTC (Thu) by jzb (editor, #7867) [Link] (2 responses)

I'm not sure which, if any, distribution is most popular among KDE developers--but if you want the "latest" KDE I think Fedora would be the "major" Linux distribution that most consistently has the latest KDE packaged.

Note that I'm hedging a fair amount there -- I'm sure you can point to some distribution that has newer packages or instances where a SUSE or Kubuntu release schedule happens to leapfrog Fedora for a bit.

Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 21, 2024 16:29 UTC (Thu) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

Thanks to everyone who answered!

Neon looks like a "rolling KDE" distro, probably a bit too "experimental" for me.

I have been using KDE on Fedora for a few months and it seemed to be fairly up to date. As a bonus, it's a very popular distro. So it could the best freshness/stability trade off; I was wondering whether there was a better one. Even better now with this news!

Funny that Neon is based on Ubuntu though!? Hey, mabe KDE is so well designed that the distro does not matter :-) Even considering... the painful Wayland transition?

Where is KDE's home?

Posted Nov 21, 2024 16:33 UTC (Thu) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

As a gentoo user ... I'd guess gentoo is one of the closest ... and I get the impression if you follow v.9999 it simply downloads and builds the unexpurgated upstream - so if that's what you want you know you really are on the latest and ?greatest?

But (not knowing Fedora) it doesn't feel to me it would be up there with the leaders. Rawhide maybe ... The leaders would all have to be "rolling release" distros such as Sid, Tumbleweed, as I said gentoo.9999 etc.

Cheers,
Wol