A few months ago I went on a journey that took me through a number of KDE-using distributions. Here are some observations based on that journey: - Avoid KDE Neon. I had used it for quite a while but left when it stopped being the KDE flagship. That honour now goes to the immutable KDE Linux (which is more of a reference platform than one aimed at end-users). When KDE Linux was released, its developers had said that having a state-of-the-art release of the desktop sitting on old LTE versions of core OS software was not reliable or sustainable. As a result Neon is now something of an orphan and IIRC is only being maintained by a single person. - Non-LTS Kubuntu is indeed more stale than many KDE distros but still not so bad. Kubuntu is more stale than Fedora which itself is more stale than CachyOS/Arch (where I ended up). - For a distro that is business-stable and solid on KDE, you might want to also have a look at the two SUSE offerings. All of the above, I recall, now default to Wayland. Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada @evanleibovitch / @el56 On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 22:07 Ron via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
William Park via Talk wrote on 2026-02-10 18:30:
Have you tried Kubuntu?
Its packages were too stale for my liking.
Neon is latest KDE on top of Ubuntu LTS.
Perfect.
I don't think desktop influences audio. I wouldn't have thought switching composers could influence audio either, but while "voice quality sounds better" is quite subjective, it's irrefutable that the crackling is gone now.
And, it's *extremely* weird.
WebRTC + Xorg + 3rd monitor = noisy. WebRTC + Xorg + disabled 3rd monitor = fine.
WebRTC + Wayland + 3rd monitor = fine (maybe even better than before).
I just cannot fathom what might be responsible for the noise that drove me nuts during video calls for almost an entire year.
100% reproducible, -100% discoverable.
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