"Prior art:
KDE neon, KDE's first version of a self-made OS. KDE neon fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise."
Re:KDE Linux
by Y_Y on Friday November 01, 2024 @08:02AM
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> Prior art
> KDE neon, KDE's first version of a self-made OS. KDE neon fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise
Re:KDE Linux
by TOGoS on Friday November 01, 2024 @08:29AM
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I wish them luck.
My experience with KDE is limited to the early 200Xs, when it was one of the desktop options that came with Red Hat Linux. "This is great, everything works together, Konqueror is so much better than every other web browser" I recall thinking. It seemed like they had it all figured out already and I didn't understand why everything kept being reinvented, badly, for Gnome or whatever.
Re:KDE Linux
by mikae1 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @04:39PM
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The Aurora image includes some necessities. The Aurora NVIDIA image includes drivers and should just work. You can theoretically also rebase to another version, such as Bazzite, with a different desktop environment.
Re:KDE Linux
by jrepinc on Friday November 01, 2024 @03:17PM
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BTW, to support further development of KDE Plasma desktop and KDE apps and all their awesome Free software, they are currently having an end-of-the-year fundraiser. Help if you can: https://kde.org/fundraisers/yearend2024/
You know, I am way past the submit date on this, but I just discovered KDE Connect today. I'm using it to share stuff between iOS and my non-KDE desktop, and I had to plug it. It's wonderful!
"Prior art: KDE neon, KDE's first version of a self-made OS. KDE neon fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise."
> KDE neon, KDE's first version of a self-made OS. KDE neon fulfills the "distributed by KDE" requirement, but fails on the reliability angle due to the Ubuntu LTS base that ironically becomes unstable because it needs to be tinkered with to get Plasma to build on it, breaking the LTS promise
My experience with KDE is limited to the early 200Xs, when it was one of the desktop options that came with Red Hat Linux. "This is great, everything works together, Konqueror is so much better than every other web browser" I recall thinking. It seemed like they had it all figured out already and I didn't understand why everything kept being reinvented, badly, for Gnome or whatever.
Considering they're aiming for reliability I would've liked if they'd built on a truly reliable atomic distro base.
https://getaurora.dev has been so damn good, but despite being a Plasma distro it still packs a lot of GTK apps from Bazzite for basic functionality.
Lets them waste less effort reinventing the wheel.
That is all!