Anyone kept track of what’s happening with the KDE Linux effort?
I heard the announcement back in ? December? but hadn’t heard anything further, so I went forth to investigate and read.
Apparently they plan (and maybe have?) to develop an immutable distro and then hand it off to some other party to maintain going forward.
I’m downloading now, but not entirely sure I want to sacrifice an installed OS partition to install this at this point I might…if no one else has.
Oh, I probably will too…I have to see (it’s in my distro hopper blood I think).
Cute cavie photo…hahahaa
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Well, it installs. It seems to run, even though it didn’t set itself as primary boot in efibootmgr. It went from 15% to done instantly…after a long time at 15% (I’d begun to wonder if it would install successfully).
It’s sure strange to see Discover as the update. but then I’m guessing this is just Flatpaks. Yep, it’s OS-Tree.
Given that several KDE elements are flatpak, I’m probably not going to be using this as a distro, even if it’s Arch based (for now?) Frankly, it reminds me of Ubuntu, which I guess given KDE Neon being Ubuntu based, shouldn’t surprise me.
Still interesting to see. I am somewhat surprised it comes with Firefox and not Konqi (isn’t that the name of the KDE browser).
Edit: Spoke too soon, apparently after first run, it set itself to be the primary bootloader. I found out, when I rebooted 
Think you mean Konqueror as a browser (and file manager)
Yeah, I wasn’t too sure
How does it compare to the KaOS distribution?
On that note, why is KaOS so rarely mentioned? Everybody talks about KDE Neon, but I see KaOS as being the “most KDE” distribution of all around.
I like Kaos, it just has a very limited repository (too limited for me).
Given the two, I would choose KaOS