Looking for a normie KDE distro that works out of the box and is stable without issues.

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[–] 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fedora Kinoite, specifically the version from universal-blue.org.

It comes with all codecs (and even baked in Nvidia-driver if you want!).

Why that and not the normal (mutable) Fedora Workstation KDE spin?

  • Very simple by default. You basically only "own" your home directory, the rest is indestructible and taken care of.
  • Has less bugs due to better reproducibility, and if something major should break, you can easily roll back without any waiting time (as opposed to Tumbleweed)
  • And you can even rebase to Bazzite, a gaming distro, that's based on the uBlue KDE version, or any other spin it you want cleanly
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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    This. Or, nowadays secureblue Kinoite!

    Its a hardened Variant of ublue kinoitr, but I tested it and especially using the "userns" variants, a lot works

    • flatpak
    • virtual machines
    • fingerprint sensor

    "userns" means user namespaces, a technology used by browsers, flatpak and Podman/Docker/Toolbox/Distrobox to create Sandboxes, isolating processes. It is used by default on Fedora, so these variants are pretty much like regular Fedora.

    Dont think a secure Distro is user-unfriendly. It works pretty normal, but is simply way more secure.

    If you want to use Firefox or Torbrowser, install their binaries.

    https://github.com/trytomakeyouprivate/Recommended-Flatpak-Apps

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Fedora Kinoite is the first time that I felt at home (besides Arch). It feels so stable and I never have to mess with it. KDE is also at the point now where it feels genuinely better than Windows or Mac

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