KDE at 30 - Hackdot

Re:KDE at 30 by vitorsr on Monday June 01, 2026 @02:07PM (#48360486)

I recently installed Fedora Kinoite [1] and I have been very pleasantly surprised by how stable and performant it is. I am afraid I cannot say the same for their new KDE Linux distribution [2] which in my opinion was a bit unpolished at the time. Both are immutable desktop distributions.

The good news, I guess, is Kinoite stands to benefit from KDE Linux development because it mostly depends on Flatpak to install programs which means all of the KDE ecosystem will eventually be available at Flathub [3] as first-class citizens with reasonable maturity.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

[2] https://linux.kde.org/

[3] https://flathub.org/en/apps/collection/developer/KDE/1

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Re:KDE at 30 by adityamwagh on Monday June 01, 2026 @03:25PM (#48361427)

KDE Linux is not supposed to be used as your regular distribution.

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Re:KDE at 30 by bjoli on Monday June 01, 2026 @04:53PM (#48362488)

I also went fedora-based and installed kinoite and then rebased on Aurora. I am extremely happy. I fell in love with Immutable linux with aeon, but I had so many weird issues with gnome that I ended up having to switch back to KDE.

I dislike their use of some gnome apps (I like to have my window buttons to the left and double click means close. Old habit from solaris), but I can force them to have proper window decorations.

I still get angry when thinking about all the weird issues I had with gnome though. Alt+ tab stopping drag and drop. Gtk context menus stealing focus and rendering all other windows unlockable until I close the menu (like nautilus file transfer dialogue). My 60hz monitor running at not-60-hz wrt mouse pointer movement. Like constants small micro stuttering.

And of course, breakages on every update since gnome is only usable with extensions.

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