Just tried CachyOS in VirtualBox... - ISO boots - You have to select "Plasma Wayland" session to log into "live CD". You can't log in from "Plasma X11" which is selected by default. - Installs okay. - Booting from the harddisk is where it's stuck. It spins forever in blank screen. I don't even get to boot splash. Reading the docs, it reminds me of Gentoo. If I want rolling release, I'd would go with - Fedora -- practically rolling-release. - OpenSUSE Tumbleweed -- real rolling-release. I'm looking for rolling-release of Debian/Ubuntu + KDE. The reasons are - Recent KDE is very crisp and fast, unlike older versions. Probably, faster than other desktops. Yes, KDE is bigger install on harddisk. But, I care about running speed. I want desktop to do its stuffs, and get out of the way. - Recent kernel has more bug fixes. Most features of embedded boards are accessed via kernel subsystems, usually "sysfs" and "configfs". - All current embedded boards come with Debian distro. I guess, I'm looking for "rolling-release Mint". Forces of Kubuntu is strong... 2025-12-27 10:35, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
I'd been asking what people thought of CachyOS, which is about as recent as one can get (kernel 6.18.2, KDE 6.5.4 which is the default desktop) plus has fine tuned kernels and compilers for various CPU architectures. It might be worth your while to check out.
- Evan
On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM William Park via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
(Double posted, so reply to your list)
I've been looking for a distro with recent KDE and recent kerne*l*. So, the benchmark was *Kubuntu* 25.10 (v6.4 KDE, v6.17 kernel).
1. Started with *Mint* + "apt install kde-full". Result was comparable to Kubuntu LTS, ie. v5.27 KDE, v6.14 kernel. Makes sense, since Mint is based on Ubuntu LTS.
2. Then, tried *LMDE* + "apt install kde-full". I was surprised to get a rather recent v6.3 KDE with v6.12 kernel. I was expecting an old KDE, even older than Mint version.
3. So, decided to try *Debian* *testing* + KDE. I got v6.5.4 KDE (latest) and v6.17.12 kernel. Not bad.
Right now, *Debian testing* is compiling v6.12.62 and v6.18.1 kernels for Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. We'll see how it goes.
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