Hi there. I m changing away from windows. I already tested some stuff. I started with fedora GNOME. But GNOME wasn’t for me I felt. So I did go with Linux mint cinnamon. That felt better but not as snappy and fast as fedora. Then I did go with fedora KDE plasma and man I like KDE plasma. That’s a thing for me. Then I tried because of recommendations popos with cosmic. I don’t know why but it didn’t felt right. So another recommendation later I tried cachy is with KDE. KDE was good but catchy gave me some erros and problems so back to fedora with KDE.

Now my real question.

  1. Manjaro Linux is a European distro? Only I often see it with popos and Linux mint and fedora that these are good beginner distros? Is it stable? Customisation in KDE is the same everywhere I guess? Does many people use it? Is it really beginner friendly and snappy? Is it stable?
  2. Opensuse also has KDE but it seems that its not a beginner distro. Also online its not often spoken about. Is it harder to use? Or is it beginner friendly? Customisation KDE again. Is it stable or does it break often? Does many people use it.
  3. Fedora, manjaro, opensuse? Which off these with KDE is most beginner friendly and stable. Is used much so I can find help when something is going on. Customisable. Stable?

Or any other Good KDE Distros out there.

  • tychosmoose@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    openSUSE Tumbleweed is the rolling release, where you may have dependency decisions to make during regular updates. Updates must be done in the terminal.

    The more beginner friendly version is openSUSE Leap. That has a longer release cycle, and you use the Discover interface (or yeast, or zypper in the terminal) to update.

    Either is pretty friendly. Both have recent KDE.

  • pogodem0n@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fedora KDE pretty much offers the best KDE Plasma experience, maybe right after OpenSuse.

    If you are still using Fedora, I recommend sticking with it. It doesn’t get much better than that.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      I wouldn’t use Fedora mainly because I object to how IBM/RedHat handled the removal of CentOS and how they hampered RockyLinux from keeping the original CentOS mission going

      I would pick a leaf off the Debian tree

  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    there’s:

    • KDE neon (sorta dodgy but always has the newest KDE release on top of ubuntu)
    • Kubuntu (KDE on ubuntu but a bit old)
    • Debian+KDE (KDE but a good few months old)

    I wouldn’t recommend manjaro, they’re very dodgy

    Opensuse is pretty good, iirc they have a GUI for most configuration items and you get the newest packages for everything. it’s like easier arch

    • iopq@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I don’t like any distros where I have to fight the system to get it to do what I want. And to install GrapheneOS I needed a normal Chromium, not snap (because of USB access). You won’t believe how much Ubuntu will fight you over this these days

      If I wanted to scour the web for a .deb I’d still be using Windows

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Linux Mint is actually fast, and uses half the RAM of Fedora (see shots: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/653/604/229/121/661/original/6d60399683784c13.png and https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/114/761/028/826/681/916/original/32f1c276089be277.png ). With a bit of tweaking, and using the Cinnamenu menu instead of the default one, it feels really good. On Fedora KDE I got updates every couple of days to the excess of 1 GB. I’m on 50mbps internet, and that was too much for me.

    • Verax@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 months ago

      Yeah mint cinnamon isn’t bad but I like KDE plasma more. And search a distro that uses that.

  • sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Use Fedora workstation or Fedora Kinoite if you want an atomic version. If you just want a system to work and you don’t care to tinker much I highly recommend Kinoite as it won’t break easily on you and is very stable.

  • banazir@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    openSUSE and Fedora with Plasma will be fine choices for you, based on this. Tumbleweed will take a bit more work, but usually it’s nothing too difficult. You can also go with Leap, which generally won’t have the same issues Tumbleweed has. I personally use Tumbleweed and like it a lot.

    Fedora is just an all around solid distro, endorsed by Linus Torvalds himself! In my opinion, since you already have some experience with it, stick with Fedora. It’ll be fine.