Hello all, I’ve been distro hopping a lot lately and have a long term goal of settling on one distro for the family laptops.

Currently it’s a smattering of linux distro’s and some M$ across all the systems in the house.

In short the fam has had a pretty negative reaction to Gnome for all the usual reasons, so there is a kubuntu instance, Nobara, but the KDE version, Manjaro etc… I kind of want to give Fedora a stint on my laptop and noticed the Fedora spins project and was wondering if anyone has played around with it at all?

I spun up the KDE version in a VM alongside the default Fedora and noticed it’s running a newer kernel than the default, which is interesting…

Is it an equal partner in update cycles?

  • Guenther_Amanita@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I used both the mutable (“KDE spin”) and atomic (“Kinoite”) version.

    While I’m more a Gnome guy personally, both variants were a joy to use.

    I personally would recommend the immutable version, especially the one from uBlue, which comes with some QoL stuff pre enabled.

    Especially since you use the devices as family computers, there’s a high chance of someone fucking up your OS. With the immutable distros, every fuck up is recoverable with just one quick roll back.
    They maintain themselves and you only need to power off your device once every few weeks or so (preferably at least once a week) to boot into the updated image.

    Of course, being KDE, there were a few small issues here and there, but nothing bad or super annoying. The last time I used Plasma was a few months ago, those minor problems are probably fixed by now.

  • sasquash471@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I have replaced windows with Fedora KDE on both my PC and my laptop. Overall it works pretty well. On my laptop I didn’t had any issue so far (recent ThinkPad with AMD). On the PC I had an issue recently where the GUI was not loading anymore. But I think an Nvidia Driver update may have caused it. Besides that almost everything works very well even with gaming. Biggest drawback is that the auto update setting doesn’t seem to work with KDE. There is an open bug which has not been solved yet. This is a bit annoying since you get updates daily and you have to do them manually atm.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      On NVIDIA I highly recommend ublue.it Images. They have NVIDIA variants. If you get an update and it breaks you can roll back to an entirely working system.

      The only problem I would see is not realizing the NVIDIA update, updating once more and the backup is gone. That should be fixed somehow and its totally possible.

      And you can still rebase to an older version I think. Havent done that though.

  • woelkchen@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    My experience with Fedora KDE has been very positive with the caveat that the default package selection has been a bit bloated and it’s not just my impression. https://github.com/edythawne/KDE-Minimal-Install exists for a reason. Stability-wise the experience is good, the liberal update cycle is nice.

    Personally, I did not find Kinoite so appealing but maybe things changed since then (I think I tried it out a year or so ago).

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    The best. KDE is an unstable mess though, at least currently.

    Try Fedora Kinoite from ublue.it to have the best out-of-the-box experience with little bloat and a very solid foundation.

    Rpm-ostree distros rock. And I think that stability is needed on a Distro with that many updates.

    Went through quite some KDE Distros.

    Also note that even on an immutable distro you can mess up a lot. That will not be reproducible on a second user profile, probably. Or you messed up writable system dirs like /etc where more configs are.