The KDE team have been busy, as they're making their own full Linux distro with KDE Linux being a reference implementation OS for Plasma and KDE apps. I did briefly touch on this in a previous GamingOnLinux article but now the Alpha is officially here.
With KDE Linux their aim is to have the absolute best implementation of KDE's software from Plasma itself to the included applications. Along with a quick update cycle to ensure you get all the latest from KDE. From the press release they're hoping this will be "the best choice for home use, enterprise workstations, research centers, public institutions, computers sold at retail, and more".
That said, this first initial release is not meant for everyday use. They said it's aimed at "testers, developers, contributors, early adopters, and tech journalists".
Pictured - KDE Linux, Credit: KDE
Even though this will eventually be a full distribution meant for everyone to use, the point of it is not to discourage other distributions. As they said "KDE Linux may be less optimized and optimizable for specific uses compared to other operating systems" the point is to help "raise the quality level for all KDE-centric operating systems".
At the core it's based on Arch Linux, but it's an immutable base OS, so it acts more like SteamOS with no traditional package manager and they say to not consider it part of the Arch family. It only supports Wayland, apps primarily come from Flatpak and Snap and updates are atomic and image-based, with the last 5 OS images cached on disk for safety.
Exciting times. Perhaps I'll move over from Kubuntu for KDE Linux.
Pictured - KDE Linux, Credit: KDE
See more on the KDE Linux website.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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- Snaps: No thanks, I don't want to receive packages from a proprietary source.
- No Fcitx: Sorry, but there are more native Chinese speakers than native English speakers, having an IME is not an excessive luxury (and please, don't use Ibus, that garbage is horrible).
- Random CLI utilities like Duf, Mcfly: Frankly, quite pointless.
- Nano: Vim is already selected and is just better, no point in adding nano.
But most importantly: an immutable OS based on Arch? Absolutely lovely, if the KDE devs could just reach out to the Arkane Linux team to collaborate it could be an absolute game changer.
I hope this will be the future distro to recommend!
Molton Brown 2 hours ago
Mountain Man 2 hours ago
Immutable base seems like a great idea - I spend way too much time trying to recover from a broken update...Either you are doing something horribly wrong, or you need to find a better distro. I haven't had my operating system break doing a simple update since I stopped using Gentoo two-decades ago, which, at the time, was notorious for that sort of thing.
Either you are doing something horribly wrong, or you need to find a better distro. I haven't had my operating system break doing a simple update since I stopped using Gentoo two-decades ago, which, at the time, was notorious for that sort of thing.
It was a thing with Arch about 5-10ish years ago (afterwards I gave up on Arch/Linux altogether for a while).
And just the other day upgrading Debian to Trixie on RPi failed and had to juggle some libs over ssh... luckily I was able to recover without the reinstal but meh.
All in all - immutable distro solve the issue just fine and I could put Linux on my father machine without the worry that something would break that simple "restore previous version" wouldn't fix...
All in all - immutable distro solve the issue just fine and I could put Linux on my father machine without the worry that something would break that simple "restore previous version" wouldn't fix...You can always do traditional backups or file system level snapshots without resorting to full-blown immutable distributions. But to each their own.
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