KDE launches its own distribution

Re:KDE launches its own distribution by tapoxi on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:14AM (#45210649)

I switched to Fedora Kinoite about two years ago and it's been a great experience. Updates are mostly invisible to me, I only layer a handful of packages (zsh, fzf, distrobox) and I do development inside of distrobox containers so I don't have weird build dependencies in my base system.

Desktop apps are all Flatpaks, including Steam.

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Re:KDE launches its own distribution by mikae1 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @08:30AM (#45210782)

I switched to https://getaurora.dev, also two years ago, and I'm not going back to a "normal" distro.

Can recommend Bazzite, Bluefin and Aurora which are derived from Atomic Fedora but come with niceties like distrobox and NVIDIA drivers (if you need them).

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Re:KDE launches its own distribution by KerrAvon on Thursday September 11, 2025 @05:16PM (#45216196)

I tried Bazzite and it was absurdly, perceivably slower than Garuda on the same hardware. Either the immutable distro thing has way too much unavoidable overhead, or their Nvidia image is not tuned for desktop use.

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Re:KDE launches its own distribution by vascocosta on Thursday September 11, 2025 @11:48AM (#45212995)

TIL about distrobox. It seems like a really neat way to use containers with good host distro integration.

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Re:KDE launches its own distribution by balder1991 on Thursday September 11, 2025 @12:40PM (#45213566)

If I were to guess, maybe people dislike Flatpack in general? At least that seems to be the case on Reddit’s /r/linux

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