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