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KDE neon
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Reader supplied reviews for KDE neon
Average rating
7.7 from 131 review(s)
Version: 20240905
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-09-06
Votes: 2
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Destroyed trust. Up until the disastrous implementation of plasma 6, my neon system had been a great kde platform. For several years I found it to be more sturdy than kubuntu, manjaro kde, and mx linux kde. Plasma 6 was indicated as a security update. It was a disaster. Black screens, wayland updates getting earlier fixes than x11, disappearing panels, boot issues--all without warning. And this was on the User Edition (not the Testing, Unstable or Developer editions). I didn't lose anything, but time--time in switching to a new OS. Neon's website now states that the User Edition is "Ideal for adventurous..." Neon should come with a warning that it is not for serious use.
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Version: 20240704
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-13
Votes: 48
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Amazing project! ... but still based on Ubuntu.
They did a great job! It's all very, very smooth and well integrated.
Even the Unstable (absolute latest of everything, plus bugs, for testing) version works still pretty great.
The way I tried all this with KDE Neon is just in a VM.
But I also use the new KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop on Arch Linux (bare metal) so I from that perspective wanted to explore KDE Neon, so see how they've done things there.
An issue here is that Arch Linux does not really support PackageKit, and therefore also not to use the KDE Discover application either, except for Flatpack and things (but I don't use Flatpak on Arch yet, there's already the AUR).
For me however the most important thing is not the desktop but Arch Linux, so it's not that I am planning to change that.
In KDE Neon it's very clear that the using this desktop is your main goal. If that's what you want, then this is for you.
I also like the logo and the boot splash screen that it uses, making it feel solid.
With Kubuntu things are different, you're getting Ubuntu's own stable build of KDE Plasma 5 and the focus is more on that it's an official Ubuntu flavour. It's not the latest version of Plasma and that should not bother you.
Why dit I start all this with "... but still based on Ubuntu."?
That's because I have a little bit a love-hate relationship with Ubuntu because it seems amazing free software at first but in the end it turns out to be a lot like commercial company product (think about the usage advertisements in the distro, closed-source Snaps system, etc.).
Ubuntu is overrated.
I really prefer Debian. It would be really amazing if KDE Neon was rebased on Debian, or that they made a version of it. A bit like how Mint has done it. Most good things about Ubuntu all come from Debian.
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Version: 20231214
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-10
Votes: 16
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I am very happy with this distro. The main reason I chose KDE Neon instead of ubuntu was that some important and common applications such as the web browser were snap packages. My experience is that is stable and fast (so my 8-years-old laptop works as a new one and I think it will be that way for years.
All my family use it in their computers (including «relatives in law») and they does not miss their older OS (that wich begins with a W). I use it also at job and it has all I need (and much more).
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Version: 20240704
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-09
Votes: 13
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I have a stable system. Even if there is a bug, an update is issued in a short time. Under AMD Ryzen 5 the bugs were negligible.
When unpacking, the language translation is a bit off. In control panel the bugs have been fixed. After Windows, the system worked for me.My Asus motherboard is UEFI. It connects well. A few things could be improved. For example, KDE Neon should automatically switch between light and dark themes at sunset and sunrise. I hope the comments on the forum will be taken into account.
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Version: 20240626
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-07-01
Votes: 2
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KDE Neon is struggling with ongoing and severe instability issues with 24.04LTS and Plasma 6 and so they are removing the "rock solid base" claim as well as support for nvidia hardware. This will come as no surprise to many who have tried KDE neon in the past, it has never really been "rock solid" but these new revelations just confirm that KDE neon will never be a proper and reliable work-ready OS. It is best to use and arch-based distro if you want the latest KDE desktop without having to worry about losing your entire OS environment.
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Version: 20240502
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-01
Votes: 4
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Being tired of the terribly long installation of Debian, I wanted something that installs smoothly and works out of the box. Neon did very well. It installs quickly and is ready to use just after. Some small adjustments are recommended, but they are optional and should be done in less than 10 minutes. The desktop is very nice, everything runs smoothly and is highly customizable. Because Neon is based on Ubuntu, there is plenty of software available, and no additional repos are necessary. It's a very nice system for people who want things to work and to look nice.
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Version: 20240502
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-23
Votes: 4
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Regarding that the EFI partition has to be at least 300MB:
this is because of the Calamares installer that they are using and applies to all other distributions that also do, too - e.g. the coming Kubuntu 24.04 LTS…
Other than that KDE Neon has been a surprisingly smooth (and Snap-free!) experience for me and my colleagues and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in an Ubuntu-based distribution that has the latest version KDE Plasma. Applications respond quickly, I haven’t had any lockups or forced restarts, RAM usage is good and not heavy on my HP 2000 (model name) laptop.
I am glad that they have been waiting for Plasma 6 to become more stable and free of bugs before using it - Tuxedo OS.
Overall, I recommend KDE Neon if you want a smooth and stable distro.
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Version: 20240321
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-24
Votes: 14
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After some packaging errors and a bumpy transition to Plasma 6 KDE neon is now quite usable again.
They have finally updated their website to explain that it is a distribution, but for "adventurous KDE enthusiasts".
Also the FAQ has been revised - some fundamental informations provided are:
"[…], using the latest [KDE] software the moment it's released will inevitably result in a less stable experience compared to distros that delay software by days, weeks, or months.
As such, the ideal KDE neon user is someone excited to use the latest and greatest KDE software who can tolerate some bumps in the road from time to time, not someone with mission-critical reliability needs."
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"Users are encouraged not to use [apps from the main repositories], and to instead get apps from Snap or Flatpak using KDE's Discover app store.
In neon, Discover is set up to only show apps from these sources, filtering out apps from the repositories. […]
KDE neon focuses on KDE software, most other software is not supported and you should not be surprised if you can not install it or it stops working at any point in time due to an update."
Therefore I would not recommend KDE neon to a "normal" user - only to people who know what they are doing or want to have a look at the current state of KDE Plasma and other KDE software.
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Version: 20240321
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-23
Votes: 1
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KDE 6 is really great but KDE neon lacks a bit of polishing. No dealbreaker for a casual, non-technical user like me. But using an ideapad with KDE neon daily, for work, I'm facing a few annoying bugs. It's not a smooth experience and I plan on changing distro once Plasma 6 is more widely available among other, better supported distros. Examples of issues I met in just 4 days of usage: Skype (flatpak) showing a blank window (had to restart it), Vivaldi (DEB) freezing everything above the task panel, so I had to run a terminal and run pkill without seeing the terminal. Also for some reasons, user folders such as Music, Pictures, Documents, are absent.
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Version: 20240312
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-20
Votes: 3
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Installed the distro to give plasma 6 a try, i thought that the distro for kde itself would be the best way to experience kde. But unfortunately with this distro i got, random wayland crashing making me have to restart all the apps again cause they closed and my browser would crash when there is too much disk usage no idea why, i dont know if those issues are my computer but its all issues i did not have using endeavourOS with kde 5. For me this distro is an unusable buggy mess, i cant recommend the distro in its state currently.
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Version: 20240312
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-03-14
Votes: 5
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Tried Neon today. It was a very strange experience. This distribution claims to be based on ubuntu. I know Ubuntu isn't the most stable distro out there, but it works. Neon doesn't work so well.
I installed twice.
- 1st time Grub was not working and I had to boot from another installation (Arch) Grub menu. But after the first update it broke completely.
- 2nd time my Arch boot menu didnt make it...
From my little experience.
Pros:
- It includes Plasma 6 which is the best Linux Desktop Environment by far.
- When it boots it is fast.
Cons:
- Probably missing some basic drivers or not launch them in startup. My Sound Card works on Debian,Ubuntu,Arch,Manjaro,Solus,Slackware,Mint,Fedora,openSuse..... I didnt work on Neon.
- Sytem-wide unstable. This is a BIG con because graphical issues can be easily fixed in a next update. But a broken system is completely useless and difficult to to resque.
The idea of a dedicated KDE distribution is awesome. We are waiting for a better implementation.
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Version: 20240312
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-03-13
Votes: 0
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As of this version, encryption is now working. I was able to encrypt / and successfully boot. I was not successful when I also encrypted swap, but that may be to my lack of skill dealing with two encrypted partitions. Distro is seriously fast, even though I enabled zstd compression. Installed samba and extensions for the file manager... and then shared a directory from it, and it worked immediately without a lot of fstab customizing, which was a first for me. This distro is getting improved rapidly, and I think they may have a winner.
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Version: 20240307
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-10
Votes: 0
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I write this feed back on 10th March 2024. I downloaded the iso from official web site, The download speed is really fast. It runs from
my USB stick, The KDE neon is very nice, I mean good looking, easy to use. It takes me only few minutes to install libreoffice, the
Operating System is light and fast. I like it very much. From the bottom Tool Bar, I found the icon, it is the Software Centre, I found
the whatsapp icon, double click the icon, I installed whatsapp. This system is so easy and friendly. I like it very much. Thanks for those people who worked hard and created this OS. Thank you very much.
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Version: 20240307
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-03-07
Votes: 20
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KDE Neon and Plasma 5 used to be my go-to distro and DE on my work laptop prior to the latest update - Plasma 6. I never cared about its most prominent features - snappiness or customisability, but Plasma 5 was light on resources, fast and worked like a charm, so it never let me down and had everything I needed to ensure smooth workflow.
The recent major update, which introduced Plasma 6, messed up my system entirely and turned my day into a pure hellride. Instead of working, I had to figure out and troubleshoot numerous issues and bugs, such as pkcon upgrade errors, unclickable icons, disappearing wi-fi or frequent random freezes on X11. On top of that, the newly upgraded system and KDE apps started to eat up twice as many resources as they previous version. The system loading time also spiked compared with Plasma 5.
The once-great distro and DE have become a buggy and sluggish mess.
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Version: 20240307
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-07
Votes: 4
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Unusable. It is a mess of bugs. Most things shut down with odd errors. Encrypted install does not work. This should not have been released in this state. Genuinely a terrible release.
The desktop looks great. Looking great is one thing. NOTHING working on a great looking desktop is still nothing working, making it a terrible release. It is so frustrating as this is a distro I really want to use, but it truly is unusable.
I expected more from KDE, I genuinely did not expect such a buggy release. Hopefully future releases will be better.
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Version: 20240304
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-05
Votes: 0
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I really want to use this distro - it is literally the only one I've found which has the speakers in my old HP 360 working properly, and unlike some other users, I've had no speed or useability issues running it non-encrypted. I do with that the default btrfs installation would automatically include compression rather than having to go back and edit fstab. However, as of 3/5/2024 (and apparently much earlier), it is impossible to get an encrypted setup working. This bug has been widely posted but not yet solved. That's simply not acceptable in the 'stable' version. Hopefully, it will be, soon!
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-04
Votes: 3
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A buggy mess.
NOT "ideal for everyday users" at all - despite their claim on the website!
At first start computers don't have a desktop anymore.
Slow.
Panels don't work.
Overview does not work and is ugly now. It looks like GNOME!
Applications crash frequently.
Shutdown and reboot and logout does not work.
Just some examples and Wayland is even worse than x11.
No more of the good themes work.
Never again.
I will go back to MX Linux. Or switch to Fedora.
Even Kubuntu would be a better choice.
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-03-04
Votes: 3
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Points awarded for being bleeding edge, Qt6 and Wayland. But that is where it ends. I installed this on my test machine (one of identical twins) and the other got a distro which is near the bottom of the DW rankings. Well, ...
Pros - Plasma 6, Qt6 and Wayland.
Cons - slow. Nice default install desktop look for a 9yr old girl. First impressions and all that (yes, it can be changed to look more adult). Slow. No, really, really SLOW. Boot times, operation on opening apps, and shutdown all feel like you are operating the machine through some StarTrek time dilation gloves. The twin machine boots etc about 8x faster. Same hardware. And then we have the apps and how they (don't) interact with the desktop / wayland. Books could be written, but the readers would rather choose a coma.
Summary - nice, but way-land has a way-to-go yet. Hopefully these issues are solved over time in future releases.
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 2
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I'd like to say KDE neon in general over the past couple of years or so has been like a 9 or 10, but the last upgrade on my laptop this week, ouch! I can't get in from the login screen, as every time I put my pasword in it just dumps be back at the same screen with a big annoying virtual keyboard covering most of the screen. That is easy to fix by clicking on the little keyboard key near the simulated space bar, but it is annoying & a bad look on top of the complete inability to login.
Now I'm scared to update my desktop install, and logging into LMDE on my laptop. This is really something I expect from beta testing software and not a regular Linux release. I'm going to be using Ctrl-Alt-F4 to dump into the command line & do some troubleshooting that way, but the initial results aren't great and I feel the distro is a lot less tested & beginner friendly than I had previously thought. Sad to say I might not ever be able to recommend this to anyone again. I may have to find something based on straight Debian + KDE to replace KDE neon with if I can't fix it in the next few weekends.
Pros:
+nice big Debian/Ubuntu repositories
+great fresh cutting edge version of the KDE desktop
Cons:
-after years of being a solid system, it really ate itself & killed its nice desktop this week
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 1
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Looks good but the sad reality is that it's still very buggy and not at all stable. Hope they will fix the random freezing every 10 seconds because it's pretty annoying, also I know linux and nVidia are not good friends, but I think this new verison of KDE especially hates nVidia. Still, I have to give some credits to the KDE team because this new design they are working on looks very very good, and I like that the taskbar is dynamic. If they could just start making their stuff actually stable, it would be my choice of desktop always, because unlike gnome, KDE has no problems with gtk3 and gtk4 themes.
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-03-01
Votes: 3
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This is a test distribution. The problem is that the hype is for newbies.
Then it's a disservice to Linux.
KaOS is in a similar situation.
Snapshot from 2/29/2024.
-KDE crash randomly
-The installer does not work, after it deletes what it needs to install, it throws a main script error towards the end.
So you are without a bootloader for example.
-and the rest of the problems are already widely known
Test distribution. Not intended for a production machine.
Not intended for beginners!
As of today, it is 2 days since KDE6 was released and the ISO is still not fixed. Although this is not a KDE6 bug.
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Version: 20240229
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-02-29
Votes: 5
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Hello as one who tests Linux distro's for over 10 years and the test machine I used has never had issues .
I was very disappointed with this new version on Neon KDE 6 , the installer did not have any Disk partition utility's, I downloaded that , after full install I tried to shut down with standard icon, that did not work or the restart click no response from system which is a basic function? Had to force the system to power off.
After install a video glitch effecting only top of Login screen, using NVIDIA Card... that did not bother me as much as after Login , I tried to resize the main menu box , the system just jittered the box for about 20 seconds then turned semi white and locked up the system. I had to Power Off system by manual power switch.
In my book the developers should pull this off the web site , and test this thoroughly .
I have had positive experiences with previous versions of KDE neon just to be fair.
Thank you,
Peter
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Version: 20240104
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-02-11
Votes: 1
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==release-specific==
on the contrary to the previous releases, this one (20240104 i.e. 2024-January-4) introduced many minor and some seriously major bugs, which baffled me and took me by surprise.
I upgraded from (20231214) release wich was installed with LUKS encryption, usually I setup the system encryption manually using the terminal whenever I install a new distro with needed encryption.
but for some reason I let the GUI installer do its magic and handle the encryption, and it worked, flawlessly.
but once I upgraded, the system won't boot into neon and gives me an error regrading cryptsetup saying it's a wrong password. it won't decrypt the system hence it can't boot into it.
it took me 2 days to do the very, very painful task to correct the messed up encryption values and rescue my files that I use in my work.
I tried a fresh install with encryption and it throws the same error.
I gave it a try as a live system and stormed by minor bugs left and right.
bugs, glitches and errors are expected in any distro and everybody is fine with that, but when you have multiple pre-release branches (Testing,Unstable,Developer branches) and you push a stable release that shares most of the bugs found on other branches, this was unexpected at all especially from a widely supported distro like this.
it seems like someone is trying to handle a project before the deadline regardless if it's ready or not.
**long story short ** if you're still using (20231214) version, don't upgrade and you'll be fine.
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==General request==
Wouldn't it be a good and reasonable idea to have an archive section for the previously-released ISOs?
if hosting is an issue for a well-funded and professionally-supported distro like Neon, Torrents would suffice, I guess?
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Version: 20240104
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-26
Votes: 0
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Very good, stable, light and easy to use linux environment.
To answer to the 2023-12-21 "Biggest con: updates are only done with a reboot and that takes time..."
You have the option to disable it in: System Settings - Software update - Use offline updates.
It's my favorite distro since many years after having tested several else (Arch or Debian based). Perfect for multimedia and web browsing workstation for everyday use.
On my different computers (10 and 5 years old), the updates never break the system which is not always the case for some distros.
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Version: 20231214
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-05
Votes: 0
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Newbie here. I've tested a few other distros but this one have what I need. It has all the GUI apps I need and best KDE environment I've come across. Personal choice! Simple, functional, no hassle with installation so far. Thank you KDE Team for making this distro nice and clean, no bloatware(my first clean installation without any apps, I was pleasantly surprised and now I love clean installation unlike window$). Flatpak, snap all easily available in app store with a click, no terminal commands, if you have Nvidia graphics like I do, just Google it and follow instructions like I did. 👍🏻
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Version: 20231214
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-01-04
Votes: 3
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this is the optimized Kubuntu, every single aspect that Kubuntu failed miserably to achieve, Neon excelled at.
Starting from the installer, you can encrypt your whole OS or encrypt single partitions, you can achive full disk encryption if this suits you.
Kubuntu didn't care about encryption and the installer itself is designed specifically to dissuade you from installing Kubuntu and as much hard time as possible if you have multiple partitions already in place.
in Neon, you want flatpaks? you have it. you love snap? turn it on and you have it. feel like using Appimages? let's get 'em, pkgs and debs of course are suppurted. you feel like you made a mistake when chosing snaps? turn snap off from the App Center, you want to go full flatpacks? App Center is at your service.
you can also keep your open source drivers or install proprietary ones.
it's sad to hear some users call this distro a pointless distro, on the contrary, this is the perfect starting point of how to build a KDE distro.
in my own opinion, if you want ubuntu-based distro with KDE, Neon is one of the top three out there.
p.s Kubuntu isn't one and should be forsaken for good until the devs get some coffee and get back to work and fix Kubuntu's sinkhole.
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Version: 20231214
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-21
Votes: 0
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First of all, I am just testing KDE Neon on a virtual machine, not trying to do actual work with it.
I’m using the testing version, so I can't tell about any bugs. I’m actually using a testing version so I can report bugs without being told it has been solved three releases ago.
That said, I will pass the installation part and go directly to the installed system.
Default software is minimal. There is no office suite, neither Calligra nor LibreOffice, no games, no drawing software… Unsurprisingly, the preinstalled browser is Firefox, not Konqueror or Falkon. What surprised me, however, is that the preinstalled media player is VLC, not one of the various KDE media players.
I will gloss over most of Wellcome Screen, and talk about suggested software on it. It’s not all KDE apps there. However when you open Discover, all of editor's choices are KDE apps. Anyway, you can choose to try or not. I think it’s very nice.
To sum up: a great distro to have the latest KDE software that does not to try to shove it in your throat while offering the best they have.
Biggest pro: the last version of everything KDE. It means not only cutting edge software but that now you can file a bug without being told that it has been fix six months ago. ;-)
Biggest con: updates are only done with a reboot and that takes time. It's the only distro that I ever used that behaves like that. With other distros, I just ignore any notification saying that I need to reboot the system, turn the computer off by the end of the day and never think of it again.
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Version: 20231214
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-17
Votes: 0
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Beautiful desktop. That's all. That is the only reason it rates a 1
1) does not ask where you would like the bootloader GRUB. It just arrogantly plops it in your main drive area.
2) does not ask, if your system clock is set to local. Again, it arrogantly sets up it's choice. To hell with the computer owner. I thought I was back in the bad old days of SuSe Linux.
Review of 2023-12-02, pretty much sums it up.
Needs a hell of a lot of TLC, not fit for purpose.
I have been using linux since 1997. I'm sorry I drifted away from Red Hat/Fedora
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Version: 20231102
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-02
Votes: 0
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I recently experienced a horrendous ordeal with KDE Neon that I feel compelled to share, in hopes of saving others from the misery I endured. My overall experience with the operating system had been relatively positive until a recent update turned my computing life into a nightmare.It hangs on grub screen completely not responding.
The update process itself was seemingly smooth, but the aftermath was catastrophic. In conclusion, my recent experience with KDE Neon has been nothing short of a disaster
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Version: 20231102
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-14
Votes: 1
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Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.
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Version: 20230913
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-19
Votes: 0
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Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.
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Version: 20230906
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-09
Votes: 5
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I like many distros... but for a desktop I always seem to come back to KDE. Complicating matters, I run all my Linux on unibody MacBook Pro machines, mostly 2012s either 13" or 15". Some I dual boot with Mac OS under Open Core Legacy Patcher and others I run wholly as Linux machines. So my plusses and minuses are going to reflect the hardware bias I have.
In short, KDE Neon is for me a fantastic landing point re my 15" 2012 2.3ghz MacBook. I have a cheap SSD of 500g inside, along w/ 16g of memory. That's overkill, frankly, for Neon's rather lightweight impact on memory. I could have done 8g easily.
Best things about Neon? I like the regular updating, which some say does make things less stable. It has not for me, though the latest version refused to fully update until I removed the dysfunctional anyway Android Studio. The KDE desktop is almost too tweakable (ha!) and after installing an Apple-like theme it really looks fine on my 2012's hi-res 'matte' screen.
I did install mbpfan to deal w/ heating issues. Also had a little bit of a time getting wifi to work, but using a wired network allowed me to install the driver. For those wanting how, go to terminal window and:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source
This installs the best resulting broadcom wifi.
There's one other issue, at least for me. I hate almost all linux implementations for the Apple trackpad. Best result, still imperfect?
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
I use my KDE Neon setup at least half the time I'm on a machine.
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Version: 20221020
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-08-08
Votes: 0
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Not really good......
I thought it would be a great choice,because of Plasma Desktop.
But it can't boot on my PC,and there's also some problems in the "Live System".
Can it running smoothly on Legacy BIOS PCs?
My PC use BIOS,it seemed the system could work on it,because the installer looks "support" BIOS PCs.
But I'm wrong.
When installition finished,my PC restarted.Allthings goes well,but the PC jammed at the GRUB Bootloader,the system can't boot!And I can't boot Windows too.
So now I switched to Debian 12.1 with KDE.It works good.
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Version: 20230622
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-24
Votes: 0
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it's great! work well! the best!
I have switch from Linux Mint to KDE neon this summer, that because i like KDE Plasma more and more. And KDE neon have the latest plasma version by default, that is perfect for me.
I have KDE neon installed on ca: 8-10 year old laptop, and it works great, and i have it installed on a tower computor with high performance hardware, and it works great, Rock On!!
I use Blender, inkscape, gimp when i'm creative, and steam and battle.net when i play games ...and it all works fine! :-) good to know is that steam have a lot of games for Linux, thanks to proton, and game on steam who has the steam Deck logo all works without Proton.
When i first installed KDE neon, it was easy to understand how to install it, but maybe a graphic interface for example to install Nvidea drivers, but it is okay, easy to find how to do that at YouTube.
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Version: 20221020
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-04-03
Votes: 11
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Good distro for it's intended use - experiencing the latest KDE Plasma DE and tools.
Downside is bugs - every update has introduced new ones. Mostly minor, but some have been real pains - getting the track pad to work properly, loosing configuration on Activites on log out/shutdown, Discover crashing half the time on updates or installs.
Were it not for the bugs, I'd give it a higher score.
If you want the very latest KDE and can tolerate (or correct) the niggles, than it's worth looking at
The new distro, Tuxedo OS is so far less buggy and just a sliver less KDE bleeding edge. Also Feren OS is very stable, but without the latest and greatest - also uses a few Linux Mint tools as opposed to KDE, but you get Plasma DE with quite a few pre-configured layout options. So if a bug-bite free experience is a priority, i'd recommend trying either of these ahead of NEON.
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Version: 20230220
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-29
Votes: 1
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An excellent polished distro that aims to please. The latest KDE DE is a joy to work with. My experience so far has been very stable. In time I think this will be considered among the top 10 distros to adopt because of its user friendliness.. It feels fast, responsive and professional more in line with the Windows/Apple level of presentation and ease of use whilst still retaining all the Linux goodies.
The Discover software center needs to be expanded more and should have a built in GUI. It is all heading in the right direction so I am excited to see what happens next. For me, KDE Neon and Fedora Budgie are to the two leading distros to watch.
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Version: 20230214
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-15
Votes: 4
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After the update to 22.04 the Distro has became severe buggy with the Software-Sources that has been somehow bricked.
I ran into following major bugs after something went wrong with the Plasma-Basefiles and was forced to format the entire disk because of:
- Discover (Software Center GUI) crashes instantly or does not update anymore
- Flatpak Updates won`t be installed trough Discover
- Network Manager looses LAN connection (after the major 22.04, could not fix it myself)
- i Could not connect to my sambashares any more
- GUI is unstable after recent version hopping to newest release
- Bug is known in kde-Forum but nothing has happend for weeks (14.03.2023 now)
Please be aware, the distro was a burner, but actually it hangs with its rolling release by 14th of February 2023,
since the source of the bugs could not be matched.
Holy Moly, please fix the former nice Distro Guys, the last update was absolutely driving me nuts!
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Version: 20230214
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-03-03
Votes: 1
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A dependable 'not quite a distro' that brings the bleeding edge of KDE to a stable base of Ubuntu. As a developer, it has a lot of the necessary tools I need to use on the daily built in.
KDE however does still struggle with seamlessly handling nVidia-AMD dual-graphics systems like Laptops, as such I did have to give it a lower-than-perfect score. I had to install some 3rd party packages just to get graphics switching menus, which still require me to reboot to enable changes to take effect.
If you're on a single or all AMD/nV-Intel system you'll probably fare better with graphics, hence why I didn't score it lower as this can hinder the OOBE for a lot of gaming laptop users, but not all. Plus this is a KDE issue rather than a KDE-neon issue. Let's see some more hardware integration!
The software selection is good. You DO get Snapd installed by default but to my knowledge there's no snaps installed by the Neon team. You otherwise get the full suite of KDE software with no additions beyond firefox, leaving you free to extend the system as you wish.
The new tiling system in 5.27 is what saved me going back to PopOS. While it's not perfect compared to Pop-shell, it's very capable and makes handling multiple windows on laptops much easier.
All in all, KDE neon is a stable and powerful distro that gives you bleeding edge desktop features on a stable base, and makes a great daily driver for anyone who wants a 'vanilla' KDE experience.
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Version: 20230214
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-28
Votes: 0
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With a Debian and Ubuntu background since their inception, it was refreshing to find KDE Neon was not a RHEL driven overlap. Since I am familiar with iterations of Debian and Ubuntu and am comfortable with their use, KDE Neon is a good fit for me. It was much easier for me to install and setup over a KDE iteration with a RHEL core.
I am enjoying making it my own and am not having any of the issues that others have had with freeze ups etc. I am not concerned that it is not a standalone distribution, it doesn't even consider itself a distribution. I like the ability to be on the cutting edge of KDE Plasma development that rests nicely on a stable Ubuntu LTS. I am not having to learn an Eco-system that is foreign to me. But instead, can use my skill set and feel comfortable with KDE.
In summary, I have used KDE Neon in the past and am glad to see that it has progressed to be very easy to install, maintain, and the ability to do as much ricing and tweaking as one desires.
I would recommend KDE Neon Linux Distribution to anyone that enjoys KDE.
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Version: 20230214
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-27
Votes: 1
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I was shocked how quick and stable this KDE Neon distro is, the devs have really been working overtime. I just installed it on my laptop and it is so nice, much better than when I tried it last year. Very similar to my favorite distro MX, but faster with more up to date software. I lost power, which has hosed some distros in the past but Neon shrugged it off and booted like a champ. Discover(the software center is much more responsive than in the past which is good. Updates seem a little better cleaner proposition so that is a plus. I expect Neon to be just as popular as Mint and MX once people give it a try. They finally got it right, it's a blast to use.
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Version: 20230209
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-13
Votes: 0
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Despite having a reputation of being a distro for KDE developers, honestly I think Neon is the most stable KDE based distro, as well as pretty easy for new users to learn
Positives: Fully featured KDE (latest software and features), stable (on the user branch), lacks bloatware, .deb based (compatible with everything for Ubuntu and any support for Ubuntu should work on Neon too), Flatpaks integrated in package manager, looks consistent out of the box (compared to Kubuntu) with one exception (see downsides)
Downsides: Missing some software by default (no office suite), Firefox is default browser and doesn't integrate with the rest of the system (what happened to KDE's browser?)
In short, if you want to use KDE (arguably the best DE for Linux if your hardware is decent), Neon is likely your best choice.
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Version: 20230209
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-12
Votes: 0
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Despite having a reputation of being a distro for KDE developers, honestly I think Neon is the most stable KDE based distro, as well as pretty easy for new users to learn
Positives: Fully featured KDE (latest software and features), stable (on the user branch), lacks bloatware, .deb based (compatible with everything for Ubuntu and any support for Ubuntu should work on Neon too), Flatpaks integrated in package manager, looks consistent out of the box (compared to Kubuntu) with one exception (see downsides)
Downsides: Missing some software by default (no office suite), Firefox is default browser and doesn't integrate with the rest of the system (what happened to KDE's browser?)
In short, if you want to use KDE (arguably the best DE for Linux if your hardware is decent), Neon is likely your best choice.
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Version: 20230209
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-10
Votes: 0
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Becoming the most recomendable OS out there...
After running it on my main machine for some years now it has slowly become my main recomendation both for windows-switchers, friends and this month we finnally put KDE Neon on all our Productive Machines in our Company (completely unrelated to software,we are a community financed membership eco supermarket and use it both at the cash register and backoffice computers.
It is so stable and configurable - the only thing that bothers me: The Distro does a bad job selling all the features it offers...
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Version: 20230202
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-06
Votes: 0
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KDE Neon (User edition) is polished it handles HiDPI great on my AMD.
I have been using Gnome for a long time and this distro is perfect to go back to KDE.
The separate package manager seems a bit odd, there are duplicates from flatpack and snap.
KDE Plasma is great, UI personalisation works all out of the box, I have been able to search and install directly from settings is perfect. Getting the latest KDE Plasma version over Ubuntu LTS is very stable.
It is using X11 by default, I have not tried Wayland, I read that Wayland is still not stable enough for KDE.
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Version: 20230206
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-06
Votes: 0
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I've tried many linux distributions, namely kubuntu, manjaro etc. I've found KDE neon to be most stable.
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Version: 20230119
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 1
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The feel for Neon is unlike Ubuntu/Mate versions. I see posts saying it is unusable but I recognize the way Wayland runs differently on different video/amd/intel platforms is partly the reason for this experience. It took some effort to get the proper setup on my amd machine with an amd X580 but once I ironed out the settings, it just rips. The graphical desktop is very appealing. Performance is excellent once tuned in. KDE Neon is not your mom's Mate. It takes a bit more work. Also kernel changes are getting more complex and I had some DVD writing issues that took an update to fix. Users beware, the span of cpu/kernel/hardware mixes are making some low level system calls an issue. Learn the platform before being critical.
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Version: 20221117
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-12-02
Votes: 1
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The user interface is total mess. There are screen flickers when I load a browser, apparently due to animation errors. If the animation don't work leave them off by default. The superfluous and buggy custom package manager, discover, doesn't recover installs after dropped connection. If the custom package manager doesn't work, they should an apt front end that does. I am using an 3.4ghz intel i7 with 16 Gigs of ram, so there are no excuses for performance issues on mundane tasks. It even hangs even just trying to load the shutdown screen. I'm going back to mate on Ubuntu, as this has proven unusable. I'm unsure how much of this is KDE and how much is NEON, but I am done with both. How can it start with ubuntu, and be this bad?
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Version: 20221106
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-11-07
Votes: 1
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Why is this so popular? It's barely usable on modern hardware.
No HiDPI detection, everything was insanely small, had to change it in several places.
Why separate package manager?
Sudoers file was not working, had to type password after sudo constantly.
Fingerprint reader works only for GUI-prompted authentication, not even for system login lmao.
Spent 30 minutes trying to make OS Selector bigger - no luck.
I wanted to try something else that is still based on Ubuntu, but this manages to break all pros for Ubuntu.
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Version: 20221030
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-01
Votes: 26
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20.04 was working just fine... However, 22.04 is not good. Things got messed up after upgrade. Downloaded the latest, installed from scratch and things are definitely off.
Folders are missing from Places. Dolphin is looking and acting funky. Software is missing from the repository.
Formatted again and tried another fresh install. Same thing. Installed on a different machine, same thing.
I'll wait for a few updates to see if things get resolved. As it is right now, I won't use it. Way too many issues.
On the plus side, Firefox is a DEB package. Whew! And there are no snaps installed on fresh install.
Love KDE, but not the latest Neon.
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Version: 20221006
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-10-08
Votes: 3
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I was previously using zorin on my lenovo but found a highly customised version of windows 10 without the garbage to stick on it instead. I moved my zorin onto a fugitsu laptop but this did not go well even thought win 10 ran perfectly on the fugitsu. Then I tried kde neon when looking for a replacement distro.
The install is basic which is what I like with no bloatware so I could put my own stuff on and it only utilizes 1gb of ram. The performance is excellent and the eye candy is mind blowing except for the boot splash screen options which are dull.
5.25 does have some bugs.
Just installed applications wont show their icons properly until you reboot.
Searching for wallpapers, plasma etc... can be tedious because as you scroll down, you are confronted with a network error that randomly appears.
Selecting plasma, wallpapers etc... can also result in a network error.
Changing the logon screen and other login portions might not take effect until you reboot.
During widget creation, the task panel or tool bar can flicker a bit.
Sometimes installing packages from discover, kde can crash resulting in slow mouse function.
The perks outway the negatives though and little things like automatically finding my hp wireless printer on the network and having the hp drivers installed are a great feature.
Good distro and nothing prevented me from performing tasks.
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Version: 20220908
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-09-30
Votes: 4
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To be honest, this is a bit of a challenge to rate.
One one hand, I absolutely love KDE. On the other, I loathe Ubuntu. That being said I suppose it's all about perspective.
As a KDE playground this is great! I get to test and experience all the newly released stuff KDE has to offer. Which for me is fun and exciting. Full immersion in the KDE ecosystem.
As a daily driver this is where my depression sets in. Too bad. So I use Fedora KDE Spin which follows KDE releases fairly closely.
10 out of 10 for KDE
1 out of 10 for Ubuntu
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Version: 20220817
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-03
Votes: 17
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Since retiring from decades of I.T. work this spring- mostly supporting Microsoft products, I decided to go Windows-free at home. This has meant trying several of the most highly-rated GNU/Linux distributions. I wanted the following "shoulds":
1-Be based on Debian or its popular derivative, Ubuntu.
2-Support my printer flawlessly.
3-Look modern without a lot of fussing and customization.
4-Include a way to seamlessly integrate its file manager with Google Drive.
5- Enjoy support by a large team. This way it's likely to be around awhile and have fast bugfixes.
KDE Neon is the one that checks all the boxes for me.
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Version: 20220817
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-09-01
Votes: 1
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I have said it several times and I will repeat it again. All the main or most known distributions and operating systems that I have tried (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Manjaro, MX linux, PC Linux, among others, including the ones I am currently using, Linux Mint and Kde Neon), are impressive results of advanced computer engineering.
I admire the progress they are making, and I have no doubt that they will continue to advance at impressive levels.
My deepest respects and congratulations to all those who participate directly and indirectly in this free software that is the world of Linux
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Version: 20220817
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-08-21
Votes: 0
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So if you're looking for a full blown KDE Plasma experience an plan on staying within the KDE Plasma ecosystem, then this is for you. KDE Plasma itself is nothing short of awesome.
PROS
1) The latest and greatest KDE Plasma. From the desktop environment to the KDE applications.
2) A fair set of applications preinstalled so not overly crowded on fresh install.
3) Easy enough for beginners and / or non Linux users.
4) Decent on system resources
CONS
1) Ubuntu based
2) Uses Ubuntu LTS (currently at 20.04 on KDE Neon).
3) Snapd installed by default and already active in Discover.
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Version: 20220728
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-08-13
Votes: 4
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I'm a long time GNOME user, but oh boy, this distro is amazing. It's by far the best and most polished KDE distro out there. It has a fairly small set of applications, which I view as a good thing, it's easy on system resources, and it delivers a great KDE and Plasma experience. I would describe it as a much smoother version of Kubuntu. If you want to use Plasma, then neon is a must-have; there's not even a choice.
I think maybe I never enjoyed KDE much because most distros don't deliver a good experience on it (Kubuntu, Manjaro, openSUSE), but neon ticks all the boxes and make me want to leave GNOME.
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Version: 20220622
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-30
Votes: 3
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Kde Neon Linux is an outstanding desktop system. I am running Kde Neon 5.25 on an Asus Vivobook F512JA.
What works:
* WiFi and Etherenet
* Sound and Video. I participated in a Jitsi meeting.
* CUPS printing to a wireless Laser Printer. I use a Xerox Phaser 6022 laser printer.
* Sleep/Hibernate
* Wireless mouse
*The keys F1-F8 work
* Scanning works but you may have to remove ippusbxd. You may get the error:
"failed to open device pixma 04a91913 device busy"
To see if it is installed do:
$ sudo apt list --installed | grep ippusbxd
If it is then do:
$ sudo apt remove ippusbxd
I had to do this for my USB scanner.
Scanning should then work. I use Xsane for scanning. My scanner is a Canon Lide 300
Kde Neon is very stable and I have not encountered any major problems. The only difficulty was getting scanning to work.
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Version: 20220622
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-23
Votes: 0
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KDE-Neon is (without) any doubt a "state-of-the-art" Linux distro. Well balanced on system resources, design, functionality and aesthetics. I, for one, would like both to thank and congratulate all of the programmer crew involved in KDE-Neon: you have succeeded very well with your mission llowing for a complete and certaily easy-to-go istribution for beginers and experienced users alike. The stability of the KDE-Neon system is second to none and, as I see it, it is the way to go and improve Linux in the best possible way. On a new Ryzen 5 pc with RADEON graphics, the operation of the system is nearly perfect (and I say "nearly" as it will allow for further improvements in the (shot and long term) future. Also, the Flatpak repositories are very good and all of the applications, as far as I have seen, stable and cover all of the areas that users may need. With best wishes and thanks to all of tyhe involved parties. , PhD, Nuuk, Greenland.
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Version: 20220614
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-06-19
Votes: 1
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KDE is in my opinion the best desktop environment out there and KDE Neon while it is not a true distribution is the best implementation of KDE as well.
Easy customization of the desktop, frequent updates which I do like and it is a very stable desktop environment, Ubuntu 20.04.
The only downside is the calamares installer which is buggy, crashes when you try to perform a custom LVM layout, etc..
For the KDE developers please switch back to the ubuntu/kubuntu ubiquity installer, because it is much more reliable and allows for custom installation of the operating system.
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Version: 20220614
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-18
Votes: 2
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A worthy distribution kit for connoisseurs of the QT library. Reliable and stable unlike kubuntu
Super!
A plus
+ Optimized Ubuntu (unlike vanilla Ubuntu, it works extremely stable)
+ Fresh plasma with bug fixes
+ No snap packages
+ Modern/latest version of KDE desktop packages without pre-installed malware.
+ The base OS of the Ubuntu LTS environment, which guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open sources and private corporations, including hardware devices and drivers
Minus
- Performance compared to Fedora, Open Suce, Arch
- Rare artifacts when updating plasma 5.25
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Version: 20220526
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-06-04
Votes: 2
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my main os for the last 6 years or so ... never disappointed
I totally agree with the previous author when he wrote (adjusted): love KDE Neon. It has been responsive, stable, speedy and to use. This has a great community who are helpful and responsive. The developers are very active keeping this distro up to date with the latest patches, bug fixes, etc. KDE is definitely optimized here, it looks great and works well. It has enough applications for day-to-day use without feeling bloated. This is definitely a great daily driver and I haven’t had any problems using KDE Neon. I highly recommend this distro!
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Version: 20220512
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-05-26
Votes: 4
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Version 2022 5.24
We are writing a book on this distro, which means it runs quite a lot of hours every week.
To cut the story short - we experience KDE neon as fast and efficent. The modern amd-laptop emits no fan noise, runs cool, shows little battery consumption.
Also very stable, after three month we've had no issues at all (which should be quite normal). We're glad we changed from windows and see only improvements.
Only little con: in comparison to other linux distros we use, neon asks quiet often to restart the computer after updating in the background. Nearly on a daily basis. We hope this can be improved in future versions, but meanwhile we take it as an excuse for the next coffee-break.
we will stay with neon after the book is finished for future projekts.
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Version: 20220505
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-05-11
Votes: 0
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This Linux distribution has got a very beautiful graphic but, sadly, the use of resources can be (and should be) improved. It requires a lot of RAM (rather than many other distros, not only lightweight's ones), so the efficiency is not positive. Anyway, I think I wouldn't use it in persistent mode, but I like to have tried it in Live USB mode; in conclusion it is a great distribution, in particolar I have appreciated the graphic, elegant. There is also a good choice of packages and pre-installed software.
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Version: 20220414
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-04-27
Votes: 4
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I love KDE Neon. It has been responsive, stable, speedy and to use. This has a great community who are helpful and responsive. I haven’t contacted the developers, but I see they are very active keeping this distro up to date with the latest patches, bug fixes, etc. KDE is definitely optimized here, it looks great and works well. It has enough applications for day-to-day use without feeling bloated. This is definitely a great daily driver and I haven’t had any problems using KDE Neon. I highly recommend this distro!
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Version: 20220407
Rating: 7
Date: 2022-04-11
Votes: 0
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Changed from MacOS to hopefully get rid of big data
Chance to Linux is a trip but worth it...
Nice looking OS, lots of adjustments.
On the other hand. Stability is lacking.
Every Update there is a new bug.....
Needed to reinstall serveral times.....
KDE provides amazing applications.
Love Dolphin, best Filemanager so far.
Krita is outstanding....
Skanlite is reliabe
enjoy Krusader....
KWallet-Manager sucks...
Run it next to Ubuntu cause having a relatively new Hardware (framework) and need to have a backupsystem in case of....
Hope someday, they make it to a reliable System....
Iĺl stay with them
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Version: 20220324
Rating: 5
Date: 2022-04-06
Votes: 0
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Tried KDE Neon User edition out of curiosity after using Ubuntu 20.04 for a months, not that there was any issue with ubuntu(and gnome). Was quite excited to try kde after reading that it is very light and fast nowadays along with bleeding edge kde software....
Pros-
Latest KDE software and plasma shell available
Tons of customization(if you want to do it, I don't)
Cons(atleast in my usage)-
Quite buggy(to the point of annoying)
Firefox repeatedly asking to be set as default+can't ever toggle the option
Too many bells and whistles
artifacts in browser(both firefox and chrome) while browsing
can hang during bootup/shutdown
Quite dissapointed using this 'non'-distro distro but it could just be my system(or maybe not)....back to ubuntu for the time being then
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Version: 20220324
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-28
Votes: 1
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Long story short : Installed and used ok without any problems. Have "distro hopped" a lot recently, even trying BSD and Red Hat variants. My normal distro is Mint. My normal window manager is XFCE, but many years ago I used KDE and still have fond memories so wanted to try it again. KDE Neon is well put together. After install and a few days of use I dont have any complaints. Speed seems good, UI and user expeience is good. KDE Neon is definitely worth checking out if you like to "distro hop" the way I do!
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Version: 20220210
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-08
Votes: 10
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I am certainly no expert when it comes to linux, but I've been puttering with it for over a decade. This distribution offers a great combination of stability, customization options, and awesome desktop environment. As I use my computer for work, stability is key. I can't update and have a broken system that takes me hours to fix, or worse, to reinstall the OS. The integration of KDE is excellent, as it's done by the people who make it. I can't recommend this distribution enough. It's great.
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Version: 20220210
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-03-07
Votes: 10
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Neon specific pros:
- Best KDE experience IMO.
- Minimal installed software
- Flatpak enabled in Discover right out of the box
- Ubuntu/Deb compatibility
KDE pros
- Plasma 5.24 is the bee's knees
- I can make my work flow my own - completely
- Buttery smooth animations
- full control of fonts and colors
Neon specific Cons:
- New bugs nearly every update - no major malfunctions so far tho.
- Dev support is thin, to put it kindly
- Persistent lag in logging onto 5GHz network, sometimes 5 or more mins.
KDE cons:
- Can hang on shutdown
- Loses trackpad settings occasionally
- Activity specific settings don't stick
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Version: 20220210
Rating: 9
Date: 2022-03-05
Votes: 3
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I'm in the midst of distro hopping / distro "learning" right now. Coming from a long-time Ubuntu base, it's been difficult for other distros to catch my attention... Along came KDE Neon. A simple, but usable operating system that both looks great, and functions remarkably well. I've installed it on PCs with Core2Quads, Amd A6's, and and several Core i variants, with the same result: beautiful, fast, and flawless as an every day windows replacement. My only flaw: finding a way to write bootable usbs from iso. There doesn't seem to be a package available to do it. This should be fixed, as soon as practical. Otherwise, I may have found my new home... when I finish with my Arch path.
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Version: 20220210
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-03-03
Votes: 8
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KDE Neon, thank you. Much distro=hopping to get Steam and Proton to work well. This is a must-have distro for any and all, and a contender for top daily. Currently my #1.
Very fast and smooth and no glitches. I can't think of one criticism to make. Above board.
What else to say?
It uses ubuntu repos so plenty of good software and flexibility.
The latest KDE software at your fingertips. Strong dev community.
Forum is a bit weak, one section only. But you have all the ubuntu web help that will apply.
Package manager Muon is like Synaptic but faster.
Of course the desktop is hella fast, latest KDE.
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Version: 20220113
Rating: 10
Date: 2022-01-24
Votes: 32
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Been very happy with this distro so far. To start off, I liked is that the ISO comes with limited software, so the ISO is small and you can then go ahead and install whatever you want. KDE Neon found both my WiFi and my USB printer out-of-the-box, I was surprised at the latter. The KDE environment is very responsive and has all the options you expect in a modern desktop. KDE Neon is advertised as having the latest version of KDE, and compared with the version of KDE on Debian Bullseye, the KDE Neon version has some nice updates. The main menu is improved by including favorites as easy to read/select icons rather than a list, and is very snappy. Right click works all over the desktop, for example you can right-click on an application in the main menu to bring up a context menu for setting that application as a favorite or pinning it. Similarly, (left) clicking on an item in the Dolphin file manager automatically launches the associated program. Overall just a very nice and usable environment. I installed the User Edition (25th anniversary) and so far have not found any problematic bugs.
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Version: 20211216
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-19
Votes: 34
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- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories
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Version: 20211216
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-18
Votes: 4
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KDE is a very nice distro, hoped for a bit more speed but otherwise the distro is exactly right, functional, and easy to setup. I like the pre-picked software configuration, not too much, install what you need.
So far It has been very stable, layout is clear and UI feels comfortable from the first moment on,
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Version: 20211216
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-17
Votes: 25
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Fantastic distro, especially for first time Linux users wishing to move away from windows. The desktop is a breeze to use and is highly and easily customizable. Runs smooth. I installed it onto a USB thumb drive to use on a Lenovo T430. All my hardware was recognized and works out of the box without having to tweak anything. I think the developers did a great job putting this one together.
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Version: 20211209
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-15
Votes: 8
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- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories
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Version: 20211209
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-14
Votes: 5
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i love that linux!!!
- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
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Version: 20211209
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-10
Votes: 5
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KDE Plasma is just an amazing desktop and having it officially put on top of a Ubuntu LTS base is just fantastic. A bit like buying a Google Pixel and knowing you are getting stock Android and not a load of bloat.
Also getting it updated with every release is great. That is where Kubuntu falls down IMHO but then others would say that is where something like Kubuntu's strengths are.
My experience is that it is rock solid. If you want a beautiful, functional, stable UI on top of a rock solid and well supported distro, this is it.
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Version: 20211202
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-12-04
Votes: 2
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i love that linux!!!
- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-29
Votes: 6
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Date: 2021-08-19
Votes: 33
This is what I was looking for so long!
- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories (which it's very important for install extra software not viable in another format like WineHQ, nvidia drivers or any other official PPA with essential packages).
Fast, stable, minimal selection of software pre-installed, latest (cutting edge) KDE desktop packages, Ubuntu base operation system with full compatibility.
This is not a dream, it's pure Neon shining by itself... try it now!
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 4
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I have used this distro for well over a year now, and it has held up insanely well. There's a stable base, and installation was and still is, very straight forward. Still works amazingly to this day. Would recommend.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-24
Votes: 3
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Beat us of KDE in any distro out there. The system just works. I haven’t had any crashes or freezes. There is tons of customization with this. KDE has become a lighter weight desktop environment. The distro has some great eye candy too.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-23
Votes: 4
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- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-11-20
Votes: 5
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Was looking for a distro to run my torrent box. Should be more on the light side, plus close to debian/ubuntu, just because I run ubuntu flavours for so many years now and got used to them :-).
Installed ubuntu mate, MX, Debian and Ubuntu and finally KDE on my ASUS NUC with 6W Celeron N4500.
MX did not recognise my LG screen, kicked it off right away as I could not set resolutions. Mate run fine, but several issues with the GUI and network. Ubuntu runs fine but bit slow, Debian missed too many drivers (screen, wifi/bluetooth), I ended my test series with KDE.
KDE is a very nice distro, hoped for a bit more speed but otherwise the distro is exactly right, functional, and easy to setup. I like the pre-picked software configuration, not too much, install what you need.
So far It has been very stable, layout is clear and UI feels comfortable from the first moment on,
So good work from the development team, It will probably remain on my tiny box after some final configuration.
Only minor thing I came across is the logitech MX Ergo mouse that could not connect via bluetooth, it has been solved by installing blueman. An Ubuntu issue that has been solved in the latest ubuntu (not in 20.04LTS).
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-19
Votes: 4
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- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-18
Votes: 6
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KDE Plasma in general looks modern out of the box with its breeze theme, but a little unpolished here and there, you see buttons and lines looking a bit out of place here and there. I actually like the KDE philosophy of throwing options and leaving the user tweaking its desktop but sometimes the aesthetics get compromised.
I have used this distro for well over a year now, and it has held up insanely well. There's a stable base, and installation was and still is, very straight forward. Still works amazingly to this day. Would recommend.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-17
Votes: 5
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I have used this distro for well over a year now, and it has held up insanely well. There's a stable base, and installation was and still is, very straight forward. Still works amazingly to this day. Would recommend.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-16
Votes: 4
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KDE Plasma in general looks modern out of the box with its breeze theme, but a little unpolished here and there, you see buttons and lines looking a bit out of place here and there. I actually like the KDE philosophy of throwing options and leaving the user tweaking its desktop but sometimes the aesthetics get compromised.
I have used this distro for well over a year now, and it has held up insanely well. There's a stable base, and installation was and still is, very straight forward. Still works amazingly to this day. Would recommend.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-15
Votes: 3
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I have used this distro for well over a year now, and it has held up insanely well. There's a stable base, and installation was and still is, very straight forward. Still works amazingly to this day. Would recommend.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-11-14
Votes: 3
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KDE Plasma in general looks modern out of the box with its breeze theme, but a little unpolished here and there, you see buttons and lines looking a bit out of place here and there. I actually like the KDE philosophy of throwing options and leaving the user tweaking its desktop but sometimes the aesthetics get compromised.
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Version: 20211104
Rating: 5
Date: 2021-11-04
Votes: 0
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kde has a really modern and advanced interface, but it has a lot of bugs and the desktop, while flexible, is a bit cumbersome. Apart from that, I believe that the kde team will start a new era in the future.
I wish it focused on bugs and ease of use.
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Version: 20211007
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-10-08
Votes: 7
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Probably the best performance i've ever seen from KDE.
Compared to my previous experience with Tumbleweed KDE, here it feels a little bit lighter but it also lacks preinstalled applications (even basic ones like no LibreOffice), which is fine if you know what you need and how to install it. Oh and i found a bit more bugs, nothing crazy like sometimes it didn't save some of my preferences when i logged out, Synaptic didn't change the language, icons on applications not updating correctly when i changed the theme, etc.
KDE Plasma in general looks modern out of the box with its breeze theme, but a little unpolished here and there, you see buttons and lines looking a bit out of place here and there. I actually like the KDE philosophy of throwing options and leaving the user tweaking its desktop but sometimes the aesthetics get compromised.
I don't like how Discover in this "distro" prioritizes Flatpak and Snap over the native packages in the repo. Thankfully you can use other package managers like Muon or Synaptic, just beware that we're in the LTS so some native packages are a bit outdated at this point.
KDE Neon can run fine on mid-low end hardware (only 64-bit systems), as long as you leave it relatively unbloated. The difference between this and XFCE is really not that big as you might think, it's up to you to decide how many candies you want and what to disable instead.
Overall i definitely recommend it to KDE lovers, i don't think it's for everyone, but you can use it as daily driver.
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Version: 20210923
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-09-30
Votes: 13
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KDE neon is singlehandedly one of the best distributions I have ever used. I was prone to distro hoping when I started with Ubuntu on my netbook and it always had errors starting up which led me to start using Kubuntu between hops.
Kubuntu was pretty much everything great about Ubuntu but with a different environment, the only issue I have is that as well as Ubuntu, Kubuntu only had 2 major releases during the year.
When I found out about KDE neon from KDE's site, I was curious to what it was: a fully fledged rolling release of all things KDE related on top of a stable ubuntu LTS core, it is a pretty barebones install compared to Kubuntu, but this means a lot less ram and cpu usage for programs I may not use often.
I specifically like KDE as a desktop environment because it reminds me of the Windows 7 interface by default, one of the best versions of Windows I have used. Couple that with features present way before 10 made them mainstream (virtual desktops and 4 way window snapping to be specific) and as a Windows user (probably jumping ship when 11 forces its way out) this will be my main distro of choice. Though its plethora of options can make this desktop look almost like anything I'd want!
I also enjoy apps like KDE connect because it's basically the connections between my phone and computer that would have Mac-like connectivity between phone and computer (though most native on KDE desktops rather than installing it on other distros) and as time goes on their design language and integrations with gnome apps have been steadily increasing.
All in all this is a wonderful replacement for my windows machine, and I honestly won't be looking back any time soon!
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Version: 20210923
Rating: 6
Date: 2021-09-29
Votes: 0
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I still think KDE neon is meant to be more of a testing ground for KDE technologies rather than a daily usage operating system. Having an Ubuntu LTS base means it's overall packages are quite stable, while the KDE-specific packages are still bleeding-edge. If you want a stable Plasma experience, I'd advise you to go with Kubuntu, and if you prefer a cutting-edge desktop, go with Manjaro KDE or Fedora's Plasma spin.
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Version: 20210812
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-19
Votes: 32
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This is what I was looking for so long!
- A modern/latest KDE desktop packages version without bloatware pre-installed.
- Ubuntu LTS environment base OS that guarantees me full compatibility with any software officially released for Linux from open source and private corporations, included hardware devices and drivers
- Flatpak/Snap/Appimage pre-configured for instant access to the latest version software with the possibility to install Muon and use original deb sources and PPA repositories (which it's very important for install extra software not viable in another format like WineHQ, nvidia drivers or any other official PPA with essential packages).
Fast, stable, minimal selection of software pre-installed, latest (cutting edge) KDE desktop packages, Ubuntu base operation system with full compatibility.
This is not a dream, it's pure Neon shining by itself... try it now!
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Version: 20210812
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-08-16
Votes: 3
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Started with Ububtu Hardy Heron (6.04), but the updates/upgrades always caused issues for my system so I searched for other distributions, because I value stability over all else. I tried Deepin, Open Suse (my first KDE experience but I didn't know what I was doing). Tried rolling releases Antergos, Manjaro, and recently Garuda and it would not take long before an update messed something up and I spent more time fixing things than using my system.
MX Linux's KDE spin is what really got me excited about KDE. Loved the stability but they do not update KDE Plasma. I wanted a stable system but up-to-date KDE so now I'm using Neon and personally, I love it. Everything works well.
PRO's
- Customization of Plasma.
- Up to date KDE apps
- Long Term Release (LTS) stability
- Installation of software that YOU want, not what developers think you want
- Btrfs file system available at installation
- Lower Resource usage compared to others I have used
- "Snappier" feel compared to others I have used
- Thorough documentation and helpful forum
CON's
- Discover is the slowest package manager I have used. I have to toggle between
Discover and Muon, because both show results the other does not show
- NOT a "New User" distribution. No helpful tools or Welcome screen
- My Brother MFC-L2740DW printer would not work with the new "Driverless"
printer service. I had to install the Brother drivers from their website with a
warning during the install that this is going to be deprecated.
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Version: 20210729
Rating: 8
Date: 2021-08-01
Votes: 10
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Visually pleasant and polished.
Light and operationally well organized.
Configuration is complex and, specifically on pannel case, VERY limited.
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Version: 20210722
Rating: 6
Date: 2021-07-28
Votes: 7
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This distro was better before. Now, I have a more problems, like laggy browser (tried Vivaldi, Chromium...). Only good thing is that I can personalize apperance in better way. Sometimes, my touchpad or mouse change settings without my knowledge. Now, my mouse works, but my touchpad dont work. I must restart my laptop to fix that or use google to find fix but later, my touchpad will not work properly. I have a problem with shortcuts to. In other distributions, I don have a problem with change my desktops or add app on another desktop, but in KDE Neon I have more clicking to make this works properly. And...I have only KDE desktop environment instead more od them.
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Version: 20210722
Rating: 9
Date: 2021-07-27
Votes: 4
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Kde Neon is put together very well. I installed it on a Lenovo Ideapad 130-15ast.
What works:
Sound, CUPS Printing, Wifi and most of the FN keys work. Suspend and resume work.
I use the Evolution email client (MUA) because of its integrated contacts and calendar software. LibreOffice is really stable. There is a great tutorial for it at "The Frugal Computer Guy" website. The videos on how to use LibreOffice Base (the data base) are very informative.
For backups I recommend LuckyBackup, which you can read about by doing;
$ sudo apt-cache show luckybackup
It is a GUI front end to rsync.
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Version: 20210708
Rating: 7
Date: 2021-07-15
Votes: 11
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KDE neon runs fine on my AMD oriented system. It is very fast and is one of the few distributions that runs very well with the AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 920 processor and AMD PITCAIRN XT HD 7870 video adapter and has no trouble with my Crucial BX500 drive (delay after: Soft reset failed when clearing the cache). I did have some trouble installing all the files, that are required for the local settings and spelling check. KDE neon unfortunately freezes at random on an older laptop with an Intel processor and a NVIDIA adapter. It seems that KDE neon has serious trouble with NVIDIA hardware.
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Version: 20210708
Rating: 10
Date: 2021-07-13
Votes: 11
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use this for 5 month and i love it, easy to costumize, stable, and easy to install any app i use
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Latest Reviews
Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240905
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-09-06
Votes: 2
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Destroyed trust. Up until the disastrous implementation of plasma 6, my neon system had been a great kde platform. For several years I found it to be more sturdy than kubuntu, manjaro kde, and mx linux kde. Plasma 6 was indicated as a security update. It was a disaster. Black screens, wayland updates getting earlier fixes than x11, disappearing panels, boot issues--all without warning. And this was on the User Edition (not the Testing, Unstable or Developer editions). I didn't lose anything, but time--time in switching to a new OS. Neon's website now states that the User Edition is "Ideal for adventurous..." Neon should come with a warning that it is not for serious use.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240704
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-13
Votes: 48
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Amazing project! ... but still based on Ubuntu.
They did a great job! It's all very, very smooth and well integrated.
Even the Unstable (absolute latest of everything, plus bugs, for testing) version works still pretty great.
The way I tried all this with KDE Neon is just in a VM.
But I also use the new KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop on Arch Linux (bare metal) so I from that perspective wanted to explore KDE Neon, so see how they've done things there.
An issue here is that Arch Linux does not really support PackageKit, and therefore also not to use the KDE Discover application either, except for Flatpack and things (but I don't use Flatpak on Arch yet, there's already the AUR).
For me however the most important thing is not the desktop but Arch Linux, so it's not that I am planning to change that.
In KDE Neon it's very clear that the using this desktop is your main goal. If that's what you want, then this is for you.
I also like the logo and the boot splash screen that it uses, making it feel solid.
With Kubuntu things are different, you're getting Ubuntu's own stable build of KDE Plasma 5 and the focus is more on that it's an official Ubuntu flavour. It's not the latest version of Plasma and that should not bother you.
Why dit I start all this with "... but still based on Ubuntu."?
That's because I have a little bit a love-hate relationship with Ubuntu because it seems amazing free software at first but in the end it turns out to be a lot like commercial company product (think about the usage advertisements in the distro, closed-source Snaps system, etc.).
Ubuntu is overrated.
I really prefer Debian. It would be really amazing if KDE Neon was rebased on Debian, or that they made a version of it. A bit like how Mint has done it. Most good things about Ubuntu all come from Debian.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231214
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-07-10
Votes: 16
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I am very happy with this distro. The main reason I chose KDE Neon instead of ubuntu was that some important and common applications such as the web browser were snap packages. My experience is that is stable and fast (so my 8-years-old laptop works as a new one and I think it will be that way for years.
All my family use it in their computers (including «relatives in law») and they does not miss their older OS (that wich begins with a W). I use it also at job and it has all I need (and much more).
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240704
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-07-09
Votes: 13
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I have a stable system. Even if there is a bug, an update is issued in a short time. Under AMD Ryzen 5 the bugs were negligible.
When unpacking, the language translation is a bit off. In control panel the bugs have been fixed. After Windows, the system worked for me.My Asus motherboard is UEFI. It connects well. A few things could be improved. For example, KDE Neon should automatically switch between light and dark themes at sunset and sunrise. I hope the comments on the forum will be taken into account.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240626
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-07-01
Votes: 2
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KDE Neon is struggling with ongoing and severe instability issues with 24.04LTS and Plasma 6 and so they are removing the "rock solid base" claim as well as support for nvidia hardware. This will come as no surprise to many who have tried KDE neon in the past, it has never really been "rock solid" but these new revelations just confirm that KDE neon will never be a proper and reliable work-ready OS. It is best to use and arch-based distro if you want the latest KDE desktop without having to worry about losing your entire OS environment.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240502
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-06-01
Votes: 4
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Being tired of the terribly long installation of Debian, I wanted something that installs smoothly and works out of the box. Neon did very well. It installs quickly and is ready to use just after. Some small adjustments are recommended, but they are optional and should be done in less than 10 minutes. The desktop is very nice, everything runs smoothly and is highly customizable. Because Neon is based on Ubuntu, there is plenty of software available, and no additional repos are necessary. It's a very nice system for people who want things to work and to look nice.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240502
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-05-23
Votes: 4
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Regarding that the EFI partition has to be at least 300MB:
this is because of the Calamares installer that they are using and applies to all other distributions that also do, too - e.g. the coming Kubuntu 24.04 LTS…
Other than that KDE Neon has been a surprisingly smooth (and Snap-free!) experience for me and my colleagues and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in an Ubuntu-based distribution that has the latest version KDE Plasma. Applications respond quickly, I haven’t had any lockups or forced restarts, RAM usage is good and not heavy on my HP 2000 (model name) laptop.
I am glad that they have been waiting for Plasma 6 to become more stable and free of bugs before using it - Tuxedo OS.
Overall, I recommend KDE Neon if you want a smooth and stable distro.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240321
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-24
Votes: 14
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After some packaging errors and a bumpy transition to Plasma 6 KDE neon is now quite usable again.
They have finally updated their website to explain that it is a distribution, but for "adventurous KDE enthusiasts".
Also the FAQ has been revised - some fundamental informations provided are:
"[…], using the latest [KDE] software the moment it's released will inevitably result in a less stable experience compared to distros that delay software by days, weeks, or months.
As such, the ideal KDE neon user is someone excited to use the latest and greatest KDE software who can tolerate some bumps in the road from time to time, not someone with mission-critical reliability needs."
and
"Users are encouraged not to use [apps from the main repositories], and to instead get apps from Snap or Flatpak using KDE's Discover app store.
In neon, Discover is set up to only show apps from these sources, filtering out apps from the repositories. […]
KDE neon focuses on KDE software, most other software is not supported and you should not be surprised if you can not install it or it stops working at any point in time due to an update."
Therefore I would not recommend KDE neon to a "normal" user - only to people who know what they are doing or want to have a look at the current state of KDE Plasma and other KDE software.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240321
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-23
Votes: 1
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KDE 6 is really great but KDE neon lacks a bit of polishing. No dealbreaker for a casual, non-technical user like me. But using an ideapad with KDE neon daily, for work, I'm facing a few annoying bugs. It's not a smooth experience and I plan on changing distro once Plasma 6 is more widely available among other, better supported distros. Examples of issues I met in just 4 days of usage: Skype (flatpak) showing a blank window (had to restart it), Vivaldi (DEB) freezing everything above the task panel, so I had to run a terminal and run pkill without seeing the terminal. Also for some reasons, user folders such as Music, Pictures, Documents, are absent.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240312
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-20
Votes: 3
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Installed the distro to give plasma 6 a try, i thought that the distro for kde itself would be the best way to experience kde. But unfortunately with this distro i got, random wayland crashing making me have to restart all the apps again cause they closed and my browser would crash when there is too much disk usage no idea why, i dont know if those issues are my computer but its all issues i did not have using endeavourOS with kde 5. For me this distro is an unusable buggy mess, i cant recommend the distro in its state currently.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240312
Rating: 7
Date: 2024-03-14
Votes: 5
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Tried Neon today. It was a very strange experience. This distribution claims to be based on ubuntu. I know Ubuntu isn't the most stable distro out there, but it works. Neon doesn't work so well.
I installed twice.
- 1st time Grub was not working and I had to boot from another installation (Arch) Grub menu. But after the first update it broke completely.
- 2nd time my Arch boot menu didnt make it...
From my little experience.
Pros:
- It includes Plasma 6 which is the best Linux Desktop Environment by far.
- When it boots it is fast.
Cons:
- Probably missing some basic drivers or not launch them in startup. My Sound Card works on Debian,Ubuntu,Arch,Manjaro,Solus,Slackware,Mint,Fedora,openSuse..... I didnt work on Neon.
- Sytem-wide unstable. This is a BIG con because graphical issues can be easily fixed in a next update. But a broken system is completely useless and difficult to to resque.
The idea of a dedicated KDE distribution is awesome. We are waiting for a better implementation.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240312
Rating: 9
Date: 2024-03-13
Votes: 0
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As of this version, encryption is now working. I was able to encrypt / and successfully boot. I was not successful when I also encrypted swap, but that may be to my lack of skill dealing with two encrypted partitions. Distro is seriously fast, even though I enabled zstd compression. Installed samba and extensions for the file manager... and then shared a directory from it, and it worked immediately without a lot of fstab customizing, which was a first for me. This distro is getting improved rapidly, and I think they may have a winner.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240307
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-10
Votes: 0
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I write this feed back on 10th March 2024. I downloaded the iso from official web site, The download speed is really fast. It runs from
my USB stick, The KDE neon is very nice, I mean good looking, easy to use. It takes me only few minutes to install libreoffice, the
Operating System is light and fast. I like it very much. From the bottom Tool Bar, I found the icon, it is the Software Centre, I found
the whatsapp icon, double click the icon, I installed whatsapp. This system is so easy and friendly. I like it very much. Thanks for those people who worked hard and created this OS. Thank you very much.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240307
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-07
Votes: 4
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Unusable. It is a mess of bugs. Most things shut down with odd errors. Encrypted install does not work. This should not have been released in this state. Genuinely a terrible release.
The desktop looks great. Looking great is one thing. NOTHING working on a great looking desktop is still nothing working, making it a terrible release. It is so frustrating as this is a distro I really want to use, but it truly is unusable.
I expected more from KDE, I genuinely did not expect such a buggy release. Hopefully future releases will be better.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240307
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-03-07
Votes: 20
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KDE Neon and Plasma 5 used to be my go-to distro and DE on my work laptop prior to the latest update - Plasma 6. I never cared about its most prominent features - snappiness or customisability, but Plasma 5 was light on resources, fast and worked like a charm, so it never let me down and had everything I needed to ensure smooth workflow.
The recent major update, which introduced Plasma 6, messed up my system entirely and turned my day into a pure hellride. Instead of working, I had to figure out and troubleshoot numerous issues and bugs, such as pkcon upgrade errors, unclickable icons, disappearing wi-fi or frequent random freezes on X11. On top of that, the newly upgraded system and KDE apps started to eat up twice as many resources as they previous version. The system loading time also spiked compared with Plasma 5.
The once-great distro and DE have become a buggy and sluggish mess.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240304
Rating: 6
Date: 2024-03-05
Votes: 0
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I really want to use this distro - it is literally the only one I've found which has the speakers in my old HP 360 working properly, and unlike some other users, I've had no speed or useability issues running it non-encrypted. I do with that the default btrfs installation would automatically include compression rather than having to go back and edit fstab. However, as of 3/5/2024 (and apparently much earlier), it is impossible to get an encrypted setup working. This bug has been widely posted but not yet solved. That's simply not acceptable in the 'stable' version. Hopefully, it will be, soon!
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-03-04
Votes: 3
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Points awarded for being bleeding edge, Qt6 and Wayland. But that is where it ends. I installed this on my test machine (one of identical twins) and the other got a distro which is near the bottom of the DW rankings. Well, ...
Pros - Plasma 6, Qt6 and Wayland.
Cons - slow. Nice default install desktop look for a 9yr old girl. First impressions and all that (yes, it can be changed to look more adult). Slow. No, really, really SLOW. Boot times, operation on opening apps, and shutdown all feel like you are operating the machine through some StarTrek time dilation gloves. The twin machine boots etc about 8x faster. Same hardware. And then we have the apps and how they (don't) interact with the desktop / wayland. Books could be written, but the readers would rather choose a coma.
Summary - nice, but way-land has a way-to-go yet. Hopefully these issues are solved over time in future releases.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 1
Date: 2024-03-04
Votes: 3
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A buggy mess.
NOT "ideal for everyday users" at all - despite their claim on the website!
At first start computers don't have a desktop anymore.
Slow.
Panels don't work.
Overview does not work and is ugly now. It looks like GNOME!
Applications crash frequently.
Shutdown and reboot and logout does not work.
Just some examples and Wayland is even worse than x11.
No more of the good themes work.
Never again.
I will go back to MX Linux. Or switch to Fedora.
Even Kubuntu would be a better choice.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 1
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Looks good but the sad reality is that it's still very buggy and not at all stable. Hope they will fix the random freezing every 10 seconds because it's pretty annoying, also I know linux and nVidia are not good friends, but I think this new verison of KDE especially hates nVidia. Still, I have to give some credits to the KDE team because this new design they are working on looks very very good, and I like that the taskbar is dynamic. If they could just start making their stuff actually stable, it would be my choice of desktop always, because unlike gnome, KDE has no problems with gtk3 and gtk4 themes.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 4
Date: 2024-03-02
Votes: 2
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I'd like to say KDE neon in general over the past couple of years or so has been like a 9 or 10, but the last upgrade on my laptop this week, ouch! I can't get in from the login screen, as every time I put my pasword in it just dumps be back at the same screen with a big annoying virtual keyboard covering most of the screen. That is easy to fix by clicking on the little keyboard key near the simulated space bar, but it is annoying & a bad look on top of the complete inability to login.
Now I'm scared to update my desktop install, and logging into LMDE on my laptop. This is really something I expect from beta testing software and not a regular Linux release. I'm going to be using Ctrl-Alt-F4 to dump into the command line & do some troubleshooting that way, but the initial results aren't great and I feel the distro is a lot less tested & beginner friendly than I had previously thought. Sad to say I might not ever be able to recommend this to anyone again. I may have to find something based on straight Debian + KDE to replace KDE neon with if I can't fix it in the next few weekends.
Pros:
+nice big Debian/Ubuntu repositories
+great fresh cutting edge version of the KDE desktop
Cons:
-after years of being a solid system, it really ate itself & killed its nice desktop this week
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 5
Date: 2024-03-01
Votes: 3
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This is a test distribution. The problem is that the hype is for newbies.
Then it's a disservice to Linux.
KaOS is in a similar situation.
Snapshot from 2/29/2024.
-KDE crash randomly
-The installer does not work, after it deletes what it needs to install, it throws a main script error towards the end.
So you are without a bootloader for example.
-and the rest of the problems are already widely known
Test distribution. Not intended for a production machine.
Not intended for beginners!
As of today, it is 2 days since KDE6 was released and the ISO is still not fixed. Although this is not a KDE6 bug.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240229
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-02-29
Votes: 5
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Hello as one who tests Linux distro's for over 10 years and the test machine I used has never had issues .
I was very disappointed with this new version on Neon KDE 6 , the installer did not have any Disk partition utility's, I downloaded that , after full install I tried to shut down with standard icon, that did not work or the restart click no response from system which is a basic function? Had to force the system to power off.
After install a video glitch effecting only top of Login screen, using NVIDIA Card... that did not bother me as much as after Login , I tried to resize the main menu box , the system just jittered the box for about 20 seconds then turned semi white and locked up the system. I had to Power Off system by manual power switch.
In my book the developers should pull this off the web site , and test this thoroughly .
I have had positive experiences with previous versions of KDE neon just to be fair.
Thank you,
Peter
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240104
Rating: 2
Date: 2024-02-11
Votes: 1
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==release-specific==
on the contrary to the previous releases, this one (20240104 i.e. 2024-January-4) introduced many minor and some seriously major bugs, which baffled me and took me by surprise.
I upgraded from (20231214) release wich was installed with LUKS encryption, usually I setup the system encryption manually using the terminal whenever I install a new distro with needed encryption.
but for some reason I let the GUI installer do its magic and handle the encryption, and it worked, flawlessly.
but once I upgraded, the system won't boot into neon and gives me an error regrading cryptsetup saying it's a wrong password. it won't decrypt the system hence it can't boot into it.
it took me 2 days to do the very, very painful task to correct the messed up encryption values and rescue my files that I use in my work.
I tried a fresh install with encryption and it throws the same error.
I gave it a try as a live system and stormed by minor bugs left and right.
bugs, glitches and errors are expected in any distro and everybody is fine with that, but when you have multiple pre-release branches (Testing,Unstable,Developer branches) and you push a stable release that shares most of the bugs found on other branches, this was unexpected at all especially from a widely supported distro like this.
it seems like someone is trying to handle a project before the deadline regardless if it's ready or not.
**long story short ** if you're still using (20231214) version, don't upgrade and you'll be fine.
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==General request==
Wouldn't it be a good and reasonable idea to have an archive section for the previously-released ISOs?
if hosting is an issue for a well-funded and professionally-supported distro like Neon, Torrents would suffice, I guess?
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20240104
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-26
Votes: 0
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Very good, stable, light and easy to use linux environment.
To answer to the 2023-12-21 "Biggest con: updates are only done with a reboot and that takes time..."
You have the option to disable it in: System Settings - Software update - Use offline updates.
It's my favorite distro since many years after having tested several else (Arch or Debian based). Perfect for multimedia and web browsing workstation for everyday use.
On my different computers (10 and 5 years old), the updates never break the system which is not always the case for some distros.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231214
Rating: 10
Date: 2024-01-05
Votes: 0
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Newbie here. I've tested a few other distros but this one have what I need. It has all the GUI apps I need and best KDE environment I've come across. Personal choice! Simple, functional, no hassle with installation so far. Thank you KDE Team for making this distro nice and clean, no bloatware(my first clean installation without any apps, I was pleasantly surprised and now I love clean installation unlike window$). Flatpak, snap all easily available in app store with a click, no terminal commands, if you have Nvidia graphics like I do, just Google it and follow instructions like I did. 👍🏻
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231214
Rating: 8
Date: 2024-01-04
Votes: 3
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this is the optimized Kubuntu, every single aspect that Kubuntu failed miserably to achieve, Neon excelled at.
Starting from the installer, you can encrypt your whole OS or encrypt single partitions, you can achive full disk encryption if this suits you.
Kubuntu didn't care about encryption and the installer itself is designed specifically to dissuade you from installing Kubuntu and as much hard time as possible if you have multiple partitions already in place.
in Neon, you want flatpaks? you have it. you love snap? turn it on and you have it. feel like using Appimages? let's get 'em, pkgs and debs of course are suppurted. you feel like you made a mistake when chosing snaps? turn snap off from the App Center, you want to go full flatpacks? App Center is at your service.
you can also keep your open source drivers or install proprietary ones.
it's sad to hear some users call this distro a pointless distro, on the contrary, this is the perfect starting point of how to build a KDE distro.
in my own opinion, if you want ubuntu-based distro with KDE, Neon is one of the top three out there.
p.s Kubuntu isn't one and should be forsaken for good until the devs get some coffee and get back to work and fix Kubuntu's sinkhole.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231214
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-12-21
Votes: 0
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First of all, I am just testing KDE Neon on a virtual machine, not trying to do actual work with it.
I’m using the testing version, so I can't tell about any bugs. I’m actually using a testing version so I can report bugs without being told it has been solved three releases ago.
That said, I will pass the installation part and go directly to the installed system.
Default software is minimal. There is no office suite, neither Calligra nor LibreOffice, no games, no drawing software… Unsurprisingly, the preinstalled browser is Firefox, not Konqueror or Falkon. What surprised me, however, is that the preinstalled media player is VLC, not one of the various KDE media players.
I will gloss over most of Wellcome Screen, and talk about suggested software on it. It’s not all KDE apps there. However when you open Discover, all of editor's choices are KDE apps. Anyway, you can choose to try or not. I think it’s very nice.
To sum up: a great distro to have the latest KDE software that does not to try to shove it in your throat while offering the best they have.
Biggest pro: the last version of everything KDE. It means not only cutting edge software but that now you can file a bug without being told that it has been fix six months ago. ;-)
Biggest con: updates are only done with a reboot and that takes time. It's the only distro that I ever used that behaves like that. With other distros, I just ignore any notification saying that I need to reboot the system, turn the computer off by the end of the day and never think of it again.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231214
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-17
Votes: 0
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Beautiful desktop. That's all. That is the only reason it rates a 1
1) does not ask where you would like the bootloader GRUB. It just arrogantly plops it in your main drive area.
2) does not ask, if your system clock is set to local. Again, it arrogantly sets up it's choice. To hell with the computer owner. I thought I was back in the bad old days of SuSe Linux.
Review of 2023-12-02, pretty much sums it up.
Needs a hell of a lot of TLC, not fit for purpose.
I have been using linux since 1997. I'm sorry I drifted away from Red Hat/Fedora
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231102
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-12-02
Votes: 0
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I recently experienced a horrendous ordeal with KDE Neon that I feel compelled to share, in hopes of saving others from the misery I endured. My overall experience with the operating system had been relatively positive until a recent update turned my computing life into a nightmare.It hangs on grub screen completely not responding.
The update process itself was seemingly smooth, but the aftermath was catastrophic. In conclusion, my recent experience with KDE Neon has been nothing short of a disaster
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20231102
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-11-14
Votes: 1
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Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230913
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-09-19
Votes: 0
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Excellent job, KDE developers. I have been driving KDE neon on a daily basis for almost a year now, and I cannot think of a better out of the box option. If I were to make a decision to switch to a different distro, I would opt for supreme Debian. However, I am currently content with great KDE neon. A stable base, the newest plasma desktop, and out-of-the-box support for Flatpak and Snap with a minimum base app selection are ideal choices for me. The usability of the live medium and multimedia support are also important to me.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230906
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-09-09
Votes: 5
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I like many distros... but for a desktop I always seem to come back to KDE. Complicating matters, I run all my Linux on unibody MacBook Pro machines, mostly 2012s either 13" or 15". Some I dual boot with Mac OS under Open Core Legacy Patcher and others I run wholly as Linux machines. So my plusses and minuses are going to reflect the hardware bias I have.
In short, KDE Neon is for me a fantastic landing point re my 15" 2012 2.3ghz MacBook. I have a cheap SSD of 500g inside, along w/ 16g of memory. That's overkill, frankly, for Neon's rather lightweight impact on memory. I could have done 8g easily.
Best things about Neon? I like the regular updating, which some say does make things less stable. It has not for me, though the latest version refused to fully update until I removed the dysfunctional anyway Android Studio. The KDE desktop is almost too tweakable (ha!) and after installing an Apple-like theme it really looks fine on my 2012's hi-res 'matte' screen.
I did install mbpfan to deal w/ heating issues. Also had a little bit of a time getting wifi to work, but using a wired network allowed me to install the driver. For those wanting how, go to terminal window and:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source
This installs the best resulting broadcom wifi.
There's one other issue, at least for me. I hate almost all linux implementations for the Apple trackpad. Best result, still imperfect?
sudo apt install xserver-xorg-input-synaptics
I use my KDE Neon setup at least half the time I'm on a machine.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221020
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-08-08
Votes: 0
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Not really good......
I thought it would be a great choice,because of Plasma Desktop.
But it can't boot on my PC,and there's also some problems in the "Live System".
Can it running smoothly on Legacy BIOS PCs?
My PC use BIOS,it seemed the system could work on it,because the installer looks "support" BIOS PCs.
But I'm wrong.
When installition finished,my PC restarted.Allthings goes well,but the PC jammed at the GRUB Bootloader,the system can't boot!And I can't boot Windows too.
So now I switched to Debian 12.1 with KDE.It works good.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230622
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-07-24
Votes: 0
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it's great! work well! the best!
I have switch from Linux Mint to KDE neon this summer, that because i like KDE Plasma more and more. And KDE neon have the latest plasma version by default, that is perfect for me.
I have KDE neon installed on ca: 8-10 year old laptop, and it works great, and i have it installed on a tower computor with high performance hardware, and it works great, Rock On!!
I use Blender, inkscape, gimp when i'm creative, and steam and battle.net when i play games ...and it all works fine! :-) good to know is that steam have a lot of games for Linux, thanks to proton, and game on steam who has the steam Deck logo all works without Proton.
When i first installed KDE neon, it was easy to understand how to install it, but maybe a graphic interface for example to install Nvidea drivers, but it is okay, easy to find how to do that at YouTube.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221020
Rating: 7
Date: 2023-04-03
Votes: 11
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Good distro for it's intended use - experiencing the latest KDE Plasma DE and tools.
Downside is bugs - every update has introduced new ones. Mostly minor, but some have been real pains - getting the track pad to work properly, loosing configuration on Activites on log out/shutdown, Discover crashing half the time on updates or installs.
Were it not for the bugs, I'd give it a higher score.
If you want the very latest KDE and can tolerate (or correct) the niggles, than it's worth looking at
The new distro, Tuxedo OS is so far less buggy and just a sliver less KDE bleeding edge. Also Feren OS is very stable, but without the latest and greatest - also uses a few Linux Mint tools as opposed to KDE, but you get Plasma DE with quite a few pre-configured layout options. So if a bug-bite free experience is a priority, i'd recommend trying either of these ahead of NEON.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230220
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-03-29
Votes: 1
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An excellent polished distro that aims to please. The latest KDE DE is a joy to work with. My experience so far has been very stable. In time I think this will be considered among the top 10 distros to adopt because of its user friendliness.. It feels fast, responsive and professional more in line with the Windows/Apple level of presentation and ease of use whilst still retaining all the Linux goodies.
The Discover software center needs to be expanded more and should have a built in GUI. It is all heading in the right direction so I am excited to see what happens next. For me, KDE Neon and Fedora Budgie are to the two leading distros to watch.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230214
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-03-15
Votes: 4
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After the update to 22.04 the Distro has became severe buggy with the Software-Sources that has been somehow bricked.
I ran into following major bugs after something went wrong with the Plasma-Basefiles and was forced to format the entire disk because of:
- Discover (Software Center GUI) crashes instantly or does not update anymore
- Flatpak Updates won`t be installed trough Discover
- Network Manager looses LAN connection (after the major 22.04, could not fix it myself)
- i Could not connect to my sambashares any more
- GUI is unstable after recent version hopping to newest release
- Bug is known in kde-Forum but nothing has happend for weeks (14.03.2023 now)
Please be aware, the distro was a burner, but actually it hangs with its rolling release by 14th of February 2023,
since the source of the bugs could not be matched.
Holy Moly, please fix the former nice Distro Guys, the last update was absolutely driving me nuts!
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230214
Rating: 8
Date: 2023-03-03
Votes: 1
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A dependable 'not quite a distro' that brings the bleeding edge of KDE to a stable base of Ubuntu. As a developer, it has a lot of the necessary tools I need to use on the daily built in.
KDE however does still struggle with seamlessly handling nVidia-AMD dual-graphics systems like Laptops, as such I did have to give it a lower-than-perfect score. I had to install some 3rd party packages just to get graphics switching menus, which still require me to reboot to enable changes to take effect.
If you're on a single or all AMD/nV-Intel system you'll probably fare better with graphics, hence why I didn't score it lower as this can hinder the OOBE for a lot of gaming laptop users, but not all. Plus this is a KDE issue rather than a KDE-neon issue. Let's see some more hardware integration!
The software selection is good. You DO get Snapd installed by default but to my knowledge there's no snaps installed by the Neon team. You otherwise get the full suite of KDE software with no additions beyond firefox, leaving you free to extend the system as you wish.
The new tiling system in 5.27 is what saved me going back to PopOS. While it's not perfect compared to Pop-shell, it's very capable and makes handling multiple windows on laptops much easier.
All in all, KDE neon is a stable and powerful distro that gives you bleeding edge desktop features on a stable base, and makes a great daily driver for anyone who wants a 'vanilla' KDE experience.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230214
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-28
Votes: 0
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With a Debian and Ubuntu background since their inception, it was refreshing to find KDE Neon was not a RHEL driven overlap. Since I am familiar with iterations of Debian and Ubuntu and am comfortable with their use, KDE Neon is a good fit for me. It was much easier for me to install and setup over a KDE iteration with a RHEL core.
I am enjoying making it my own and am not having any of the issues that others have had with freeze ups etc. I am not concerned that it is not a standalone distribution, it doesn't even consider itself a distribution. I like the ability to be on the cutting edge of KDE Plasma development that rests nicely on a stable Ubuntu LTS. I am not having to learn an Eco-system that is foreign to me. But instead, can use my skill set and feel comfortable with KDE.
In summary, I have used KDE Neon in the past and am glad to see that it has progressed to be very easy to install, maintain, and the ability to do as much ricing and tweaking as one desires.
I would recommend KDE Neon Linux Distribution to anyone that enjoys KDE.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230214
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-27
Votes: 1
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I was shocked how quick and stable this KDE Neon distro is, the devs have really been working overtime. I just installed it on my laptop and it is so nice, much better than when I tried it last year. Very similar to my favorite distro MX, but faster with more up to date software. I lost power, which has hosed some distros in the past but Neon shrugged it off and booted like a champ. Discover(the software center is much more responsive than in the past which is good. Updates seem a little better cleaner proposition so that is a plus. I expect Neon to be just as popular as Mint and MX once people give it a try. They finally got it right, it's a blast to use.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230209
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-13
Votes: 0
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Despite having a reputation of being a distro for KDE developers, honestly I think Neon is the most stable KDE based distro, as well as pretty easy for new users to learn
Positives: Fully featured KDE (latest software and features), stable (on the user branch), lacks bloatware, .deb based (compatible with everything for Ubuntu and any support for Ubuntu should work on Neon too), Flatpaks integrated in package manager, looks consistent out of the box (compared to Kubuntu) with one exception (see downsides)
Downsides: Missing some software by default (no office suite), Firefox is default browser and doesn't integrate with the rest of the system (what happened to KDE's browser?)
In short, if you want to use KDE (arguably the best DE for Linux if your hardware is decent), Neon is likely your best choice.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230209
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-12
Votes: 0
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Despite having a reputation of being a distro for KDE developers, honestly I think Neon is the most stable KDE based distro, as well as pretty easy for new users to learn
Positives: Fully featured KDE (latest software and features), stable (on the user branch), lacks bloatware, .deb based (compatible with everything for Ubuntu and any support for Ubuntu should work on Neon too), Flatpaks integrated in package manager, looks consistent out of the box (compared to Kubuntu) with one exception (see downsides)
Downsides: Missing some software by default (no office suite), Firefox is default browser and doesn't integrate with the rest of the system (what happened to KDE's browser?)
In short, if you want to use KDE (arguably the best DE for Linux if your hardware is decent), Neon is likely your best choice.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230209
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-10
Votes: 0
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Becoming the most recomendable OS out there...
After running it on my main machine for some years now it has slowly become my main recomendation both for windows-switchers, friends and this month we finnally put KDE Neon on all our Productive Machines in our Company (completely unrelated to software,we are a community financed membership eco supermarket and use it both at the cash register and backoffice computers.
It is so stable and configurable - the only thing that bothers me: The Distro does a bad job selling all the features it offers...
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230206
Rating: 10
Date: 2023-02-06
Votes: 0
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I've tried many linux distributions, namely kubuntu, manjaro etc. I've found KDE neon to be most stable.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230202
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-02-06
Votes: 0
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KDE Neon (User edition) is polished it handles HiDPI great on my AMD.
I have been using Gnome for a long time and this distro is perfect to go back to KDE.
The separate package manager seems a bit odd, there are duplicates from flatpack and snap.
KDE Plasma is great, UI personalisation works all out of the box, I have been able to search and install directly from settings is perfect. Getting the latest KDE Plasma version over Ubuntu LTS is very stable.
It is using X11 by default, I have not tried Wayland, I read that Wayland is still not stable enough for KDE.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20230119
Rating: 9
Date: 2023-01-22
Votes: 1
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The feel for Neon is unlike Ubuntu/Mate versions. I see posts saying it is unusable but I recognize the way Wayland runs differently on different video/amd/intel platforms is partly the reason for this experience. It took some effort to get the proper setup on my amd machine with an amd X580 but once I ironed out the settings, it just rips. The graphical desktop is very appealing. Performance is excellent once tuned in. KDE Neon is not your mom's Mate. It takes a bit more work. Also kernel changes are getting more complex and I had some DVD writing issues that took an update to fix. Users beware, the span of cpu/kernel/hardware mixes are making some low level system calls an issue. Learn the platform before being critical.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221117
Rating: 4
Date: 2022-12-02
Votes: 1
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The user interface is total mess. There are screen flickers when I load a browser, apparently due to animation errors. If the animation don't work leave them off by default. The superfluous and buggy custom package manager, discover, doesn't recover installs after dropped connection. If the custom package manager doesn't work, they should an apt front end that does. I am using an 3.4ghz intel i7 with 16 Gigs of ram, so there are no excuses for performance issues on mundane tasks. It even hangs even just trying to load the shutdown screen. I'm going back to mate on Ubuntu, as this has proven unusable. I'm unsure how much of this is KDE and how much is NEON, but I am done with both. How can it start with ubuntu, and be this bad?
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221106
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-11-07
Votes: 1
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Why is this so popular? It's barely usable on modern hardware.
No HiDPI detection, everything was insanely small, had to change it in several places.
Why separate package manager?
Sudoers file was not working, had to type password after sudo constantly.
Fingerprint reader works only for GUI-prompted authentication, not even for system login lmao.
Spent 30 minutes trying to make OS Selector bigger - no luck.
I wanted to try something else that is still based on Ubuntu, but this manages to break all pros for Ubuntu.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221030
Rating: 1
Date: 2022-11-01
Votes: 26
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20.04 was working just fine... However, 22.04 is not good. Things got messed up after upgrade. Downloaded the latest, installed from scratch and things are definitely off.
Folders are missing from Places. Dolphin is looking and acting funky. Software is missing from the repository.
Formatted again and tried another fresh install. Same thing. Installed on a different machine, same thing.
I'll wait for a few updates to see if things get resolved. As it is right now, I won't use it. Way too many issues.
On the plus side, Firefox is a DEB package. Whew! And there are no snaps installed on fresh install.
Love KDE, but not the latest Neon.
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Project: KDE neon
Version: 20221006
Rating: 8
Date: 2022-10-08
Votes: 3
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I was previously using zorin on my lenovo but found a highly customised version of windows 10 without the garbage to stick on it instead. I moved my zorin onto a fugitsu laptop but this did not go well even thought win 10 ran perfectly on the fugitsu. Then I tried kde neon when looking for a replacement distro.
The install is basic which is what I like with no bloatware so I could put my own stuff on and it only utilizes 1gb of ram. The performance is excellent and the eye candy is mind blowing except for the boot splash screen options which are dull.
5.25 does have some bugs.
Just installed applications wont show their icons properly until you reboot.
Searching for wallpapers, plasma etc... can be tedious because as you scroll down, you are confronted with a network error that randomly appears.
Selecting plasma, wallpapers etc... can also result in a network error.
Changing the logon screen and other login portions might not take effect until you reboot.
During widget creation, the task panel or tool bar can flicker a bit.
Sometimes installing packages from discover, kde can crash resulting in slow mouse function.
The perks outway the negatives though and little things like automatically finding my hp wireless printer on the network and having the hp drivers installed are a great feature.
Good distro and nothing prevented me from performing tasks.
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