I can't believe this! The only distro that can install on my machine is Fedora. I tried

Kubuntu 25.10
Linux Mint 22.2
LMDE 7
Debian 13.2
Cachy OS
Manjaro
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

They all recognize the hardwares, and install goes okay. But, at the end, they all fail on "loading grub bootloader" part. My current machine is UEFI, so I was careful to select UEFI side of any ISO. So, it's not EFI vs MBR thing.

This is my current setup:

/dev/sda -- Slackware
/dev/sd[bcdefgh] -- harddisks used for backup snapshots in BTRFS filesystem.
/dev/sdi -- This is where I want to install the new distro. It can do whatever it wants on this disk. I'll select which one to boot, from Motherboard's UEFI boot selection.

I will be dual booting for awhile. Slackware for existing simple tasks, like emails and web. Fedora for new tasks. I still can't believe it...

On 2025-12-27 02:16, William Park via Talk wrote:

(Double posted, so reply to your list)

I've been looking for a distro with recent KDE and recent kernel. 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.

To those using Debian testing, how would you rate its stability? Is it suitable for daily PC?
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