After being a GNOME fanboy for decades, v3.0 and beyond left me disillusioned. I took to ElementaryOS and Mate, which was alright. Then I discovered KDE Plasma (thanks to Steam Deck) and absolutely fell in love with it. Well, well, well…how the turn tables[1].

1. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=How%20the%20...

So you use ElemantaryOS with the KDE Plasma desktop? Or Plasma on a different distro now?

Ubuntu with KDE, or you can go for Kubuntu which comes with KDE pre-installed. Works with Wayland too.

Obligatory reminder that elementaryOS, "the easiest to use Linux distro" made as a knockoff of macOS, expects users to format and reinstall every year when a new version is released.

I can't recommend it.

This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated userspace apps. I hope immutable distributions take off, which will make major upgrades easier and pristine rollback easy. The Linux space really needs a newbie friendly, immutable distro. I know of Vanilla OS, OpenSUSE Aeon & Fedora Silverblue... hope we get more competition.

As an anecdote, I've been upgrading a single install of Fedora stable for years without any issues.

Same here. I love that aspect of Fedora. My main desktop has been upgraded-in-place for 8 or so years now.

I’ve been using Linux and BSD for twenty years and never ran an OS I couldn’t update to the next release, with the exception of elementary. Some make it easy and some don’t but elementary OS was the only one to say “sorry, no upgrade path for you.”

mx linux is fast!

I thought ElementaryOS was dead due to infighting between the two cofounders, but it still seems to be going: https://elementary.io/

(I had installed it on one box a few years ago and liked it, but moved back to Ubuntu once I learned about its conflict in the team.)

I must say, if only able to use 3 adjectives in a headline, why would ethical be one, when it comes to visual software? Stable, beautiful, and elegant are three that come to mind that could have been used.

I'm having trouble seeing how an open source DE can even be unethical.

> ElementaryOS

One person project…

Of course no security team…