KDE neon

Reader supplied reviews for KDE neon Average rating 7.9 from 153 review(s) Please specify which version of the distribtion you are reviewing. Please select a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on KDE neon? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 20260409202512252024092920231214202210202021123020201231201912262018090620171228 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 20260409 Rating: 9 Date: 2026-04-15 Country: Germany Votes: 0 I'm using Kubuntu 24 LTS on a Thinkpad T14, MX Linux on a workstation with Debian based MX linux and KDE neon. The latter two since approx 2020/2021. The good of KDE neon (user) is the KDE application repository with latest (stable) application programs. More than a year ago, I had the choice to update from Ubuntu 22 LTS base to 24 LTS, but because of some reported distro update problems, I decided to postpone it. In january I did it. The process of updrading is very professionally. But I had some problems anyway. But information related to experiences other neon users helped to get the system working right (I still feared that I had serious problems!). Problems may always arise in such circumstances, but I rate it as a miracle that the system got it right. Later on, I only had an issue with the GeForce 730 graphic card, which appeared not to work well from kernel version beyond 6.14 (I remember). Anyway that's not a flaw of neon, but a matter of genuine looking what was the cause of the problem. The thing is that only a Display Driver version 580 was compatible with the update. I needed at least a GeForce 750, because the 730 was no longer supported in this version. After buying GeForce 1030, all upgrade related problems were gone. I realize that the information above has a limited value for rating KDE neon, but adequate solving of problems in a complex system is an indication of product quality. I also can confirm to be very happy with neon. The only downside is the Windows like habit to install many updates in a reboot sequence. But when this procedure would be more robust, it's worth it. The final reason to write a review is the fact that an average rating of 7.9 appears to low to my opinion. When I look at the review history, I see a few very low ratings during the time of the move from 22 LTS to 24 LTS. Perhaps it makes sense for distrowatch to also publish a review graph over time for every distro out there (rating 1-10 on y-axis. This would help substantially to judge clearly better if a distro could be a good choice for installing or trying it out. Bottom line: I'm happy that X11 is still the default X server, not Wayland. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20260312 Rating: 10 Date: 2026-03-19 Country: Brazil Votes: 2 O KDE Neon é hoje a melhor distro. Por uma simples motivo: ela tras configurações, requisições e permições mais abrangentes permitindo um trabalho mais produtivo. Há também determinadas sutilezas no comportamento do Plasma que me agradam. Nem mudo o tema, pela primeira vez me sinto hipnotizado lider com o tema claro e perceber a beleza dessa versão. Sendo baseado em Ubuntu ela não se distancia desse universo, mas trás a possibilidade de se trabalhar e usar o sistema de forma menos problemática. Não tive nenhum problema em várias versões lançadas da .iso, e isso é uma situação privilegiada pois nunca havia usado qualquer distro baseada em Ubuntu que não me trouxesse algum tipo de problema mais cedo ou mais tarde. Eu precisava migrar para Debian ou Ubuntu. Eu já conhecia várias outras distros baseada em Ubuntu e Debian mas decidi adotar o Mint. E tive problemas. Poderia usar os originais Debian e Ubuntu? Não, porque preciso que os apps rodem sem muito excesso de configurações de permições. Aliás foi isso que quebrou uma parte do Mint que não mais houve possibilidade nem de instalar novos programas e nem atualizar, e não hávia mais nada que se pudesse fazer para mim um usuário comum de muitos anos de linux. Quem precisa de usar esse universo do Debian/Ubunut, escolha o Neon. Eu tenho usado com o kernel liquorix e drives recentes da nvídia e nunca fiquei tão satisfeito com uma distro que em meses não me apresentou nenhum tipo de problema. Aqueles que acham que ela é só mais uma distro, pode até ser em certo ponto, mas para mim que precisa de construir uma rede de sistemas e integração ela foi uma grande descoberta. Estremamente flexível nas configurações de conteiners. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 20251225 Rating: 6 Date: 2026-01-13 Votes: 12 Subject Matter: KDE NEON vs. other KDE systems I've been downloading and burning live images for over 5 months now and have a substantial collection of DVDs with systems on them. Some are great, some not so greats, some duds, and some stuff that wasted my time, my bandwidth, and a DVD. Each live image is verified (and each burn) then carefully tested for 7-8 hours (I'm retired, handicapped, and have 4 days a week I devote to this) to determine the strengths and weaknesses of each live system. Without doubt KDE and XFCE are the two most popular desktops for many good reasons I won't go into here and most I've installed have these interfaces and as you may imagine their is little difference between, say, one Debian and another but more so between a Debian and a Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, ROSA or ex-Mandrake based system with KDE desktop. Of the KDE (and XFCE) systems that boot to the desktop (some don't), something must stand out in some way; be it only original wallpaper, a few unique tools by the developers/maintainers, a responsive forum (I try to test that) - something as simple a being based on Debian (unstable) rather than stable - something must attract me besides trending numbers inflated by a new release. Those that do attract me must do 2 simple things immediately and without hiccup; 1) find and hook to wireless network and 2) immediately mirror in HDMI to a 32" Samsung screen @ 1920x1080 resolution. After that I put them to work with CAD, video editing and routines of maintenance such as Timeshift and DejaVu testing. My test machine? It's ancient but in good repair; a 15 year old ASUS G74SX with 16GB RAM, Intel i7 2.0Ghz processors, a 1920x1080 screen and a DVD. The BIOS was setup by ASUS to ms-dos for Windows 7 and will not do UEFI. Many old ASUS have BIOS factory set like that and cannot even boot from a USB. Windows 7 sits in first primary partition on the same 2TB Micron SSD that holds also 20 Linux test systems. All are accessed from a a lovely, artistically colorful and well-scaled, multi-tiered boot menu.provided by one of my favorite XFCE systems, Pardus 25 from Turkey (Distrowatch hit rating of 162). With that out of the way, I just found Neon to be a tad boring. Rating Neon with a 6 of 10 does not mean it's evil. (Tea Linux will obliterate your HD during an install without warning...that's evil!) It's just that Neon sits in a Linux marketplace glutted with KDEs and has little to recommend it over any other KDE distro (yet rates 20 here). Aside from the fact it appears to be based on Ubuntu's LTS there are no other redeeming qualities I could find. To those who'll say they think Neon will be more stable that other KDEs out there, well, I can't see it being any better than, say, Siduction 'Shine On', a German-made rolling release based on Debian's unstable branch that's currently sitting at # 207 on Distrowatch; or the French independent rolling release Mageia 9 sitting at #77; or another beautiful, independent French rolling release OpenMandriva 6.0 'ROME' sitting at #66. These are all KDE Plasma 6 desktops that caught my eye and deserve serious consideration by anyone looking for a KDE desktop. Each of these has repeatedly withstood huge initial updates (2800+ on one alone) and weekly updates, plus installs and many uninstalls. Each of these 20 Linux sit in their own 80GB partition (/), yet none have failed to boot. I call that pretty good stability with all this going on. Along with EndeavourOS, PCLinuxOS, CachyOS and several other deservedly high DW hit rated KDEs, there are so many other more attractive, more unique and just as solid KDE operating systems with vast app collections. Get further out and discover. Don't let DW hits-per-day ratings box you in. That's not what those numbers are for. J.A.C. Bradshaw Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 153 reader reviews of KDE neon...