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what's a normie KDE distro? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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