I’m not a beginner anymore, but I’m much less interested in technical tinkering for its own sake than I used to be. These days I just want my computer to work properly without too much intervention from me.

I’ve been using Kubuntu for a number of years, but I’m also hearing increasing complaints about how Canonical is running things. I don’t think I’m ready to switch to a new distro yet, but it wouldn’t hurt to know what’s out there.

Is Kubuntu still a good choice for an “it just works” KDE-based distro, or has it been surpassed?

  • F04118F
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    11 months ago

    I hear good things about Manjaro. It’s based on Arcj, but preconfigured and user friendly. Although I have also heard of dependency problems when using the Arch User Repository, due to Manjaro being a bit behind Arch.

    If you like Ubuntu, but not what Canonical is doing, then Linux Mint is what you’re looking for. That’s how it was born. There is a KDE flabor of it too!

  • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Even though I’m not a huge fan of canonical, Ubuntu and its derivatives are still pretty good.

    I personally prefer Debian these days. Since Ubuntu is based on Debian, most software/support sites work just fine, but it’s not so much “in the way” as Ubuntu.

    And I have to say, the installer is very easy to use, especially if you already installed an OS before. Under half an hour.

  • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    As someone who can’t quit KDE because of KDE connect, my go-to is debian. Debian 12 is an outstanding release, it’s stable, and it works. The only gripe is that debian famously has later releases than most distros, which can be a problem if you need a recent version of say, go or rust (you can still install manually but apt exists for a reason), but in general it’s not that bad and it’s of course a tradeoff between recency and stability.

  • carzian@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Have you looked at tumbleweed? I’ve been using it without major issues for a few years across different devices. Perfect integration with plasma, rolling but stable distro, built in rollback feature, it’s great