Distros I love and might use again
- Bunsenlabs
- Solus
- antiX
- Tiny Core
- Debian + Budgie DE
Challengers : elementaryOS, KDE Neon, Q4OS, Puppy, Haiku (not a linux)
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I think salientOS
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None other then…you guessed it >> Endeavour! … OS that is!
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I see big M in a similar way. I had only ever installed it in the minimal version and there it was quite tolerable. It is for the most part this forum that has become impossible.
Btw. I might try KaOS as an alternative, but WHY?
KaOS is cool if you can live with limited software selection.
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I like the idea of it being fixed to KDE, which gives hope that KDE will be implemented very well then. The weird theming can be fixed after all 
But I have now discovered EndeavourOS 
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Curious if anyone… @dalto , nudge, nudge…has tried Nitrux distro, based on Debian unstable (Sid) with a focus on KDE?
Edit to add:
Tried this, fired it up in a virtualbox, and I would not recommend it. Could not install Synaptic, the one and only, I think, package mgr for debian based systems. It had a conflict with their desktop distro files. They provide what looks like their own apps, much like Elementary OS, only theirs are very rudimentary. For example, the file manager had no “show hidden files” option…W…T…F. I could not get their package manager to show more than 5 apps. Hated their terminal program. You can’t resize any of the windows. They must have removed some functionality in Windows Manager. Lastly, no support re forum, which is KEY to a successful distro, imo. They have some IM site to post and wait for a response, but does very little when searching for answers. Pass!
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Mageia !
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KDE Neon.
Strangely it is an Ubuntu distro where the install is actually more “minimal” than the actual vanilla minimal install of main Ubuntu and other Ubuntu based distros and get latest KDE plasma. Which is a good thing, so you’re focused on installing software you want rather than uninstall stuff out afterwards like other Ubuntu distros.
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That is because it is based on Ubuntu Core.
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Kde neon is more a development platform then a distro…ubuntu base with the latest kde… can be fine offcourse
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I tried it about a year ago and it was not at all ready at that time.
I fired it up and installed it to give it a try and here is my feedback from an extremely short time with it
- It uses a customized version of Calamares as the installer
- No systemd, it is openrc-based
- Uses wayland by default
- It uses the ditto launcher(seen in the screenshot below) which is a very basic launcher.
- It has a pretty strange mix of pre-installed applications. It is mostly minimal but includes things like kdenlive, inkscape and some seemingly random gaming tools.
- By default there are two latte docks a minimal panel at the top and a dock at the bottom
- They have their own suite of apps which, at a glance, seem quite immature
- Some of the apps I was unable to make function at all. I could open them, but the controls were not working
- The software store is mostly broken for me
- It seems like there apps are mostly intended to enable touch control(I feel like last time I tested this it was intended to be a mobile phone distro)
- The repos are quite interesting. It is combination of debian unstable, debian experimental, ubuntu, kde neon and their own repos. I would be curious to know how stable that is long-term. Combining repos targeting ubuntu LTS and debian experimental feels like a recipe for disaster but I can’t say that for sure without a longer test
In it’s current state, it doesn’t seem very usable. I probably need to check back on this in another year to see how it is coming but, ultimately, it is not for me. It is like someone identified all my preferences and then made the opposite of all those decisions. 
It isn’t that you can’t resize them, it is that the window borders are tiny making them very difficult to target.
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Meta + Click and drag anywhere within the window: left 
button to move the window, right button to resize it.
I also set Meta + scroll wheel up/down to change window opacity, but that one is not by default.
Window borders are a waste of screen real-estate 
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Perfect analysis. I didn’t take the time to look at the repos, but it was odd. I would look apps up on Debian’s sid page that should be in Sid, but they were not in theirs. I also found several of their apps broken. One thing that freaked me out was after installing, I saw two folders besides my own in the Home directory, one named Chad or Chase or something, the other was Nitrux. That should not happen. If they can’t clean their packed distro properly, well… 
Oddly, they released a new version later in the day, 1.6 or something, I saw a blurb go by. I saw no need to revisit it. I would guess, they have a very small team or just one person behind it with a huge white board of unfinished To-do’s and plans. 
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My testing was done after yesterdays release.
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Manjaro
Pure Arch
Fedora
Suse
in that order.
After distro hopping , Endeavour os and Solus my fav 
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I’d be happy with almost any distro that supports a nicely configured Cinnamon desktop. That said, I prefer pacman over dpkg - so an Arch derivative would be ahead of a debian derivative distro. The community ultimately makes the real difference.
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Have been using those since I started my Linux journey (starting with something around SuSE version 7). Used to be a Mod in a big german openSUSE forum for years. Discovered EndeavourOS when my, at that time new Netbook, refused to play any sound with neither Leap nor Tumbleweed. EndeavourOS did the job. Because I liked it and already was interested in Rolling Releases, I switched to EndeavourOS on my Desktop too.
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GenToo all the way, because i learned most of a Linux System in general, while using it.
most of the time i spend with the kernel first and created my own config, after a while and then with the rest of the GenToo System itself.
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