Note: I don’t know if I’m posting this in the right community, I joined Lemmy recently.

I use KDE Neon on my desktop, and I recently decided to install Linux on my laptop. I don’t want to install KDE Neon onto my laptop though, because it only has fairly up to date software through Flatpak (at least for me).

Is there a good distro with very up to date software that doesn’t require me to check on it often, and that I can probably make it work within 15 days? (I have the list of apps I need.) I prefer an Arch-based distro that lets me remove a lot of distro specific customization. However, if there is some other distro “base” that has software up to date like Arch and the AUR, please also let me know.

(I tried Arch already, but it seems to be too hard for me to configure, and it has multiple weird issues for me, so I don’t really want to use it.)

Edit 1: (Late edit because lemmy.world was down for the day) I am going to try out Fedora KDE, Endeavour KDE, and Manjaro KDE out. Might also check out Kinoite. Will update after I have tested each.

  • s20@lemmy.ml
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    11 months ago

    Nah, mate. You upgrade twice a year. But it’s been a smooth experience since about 34-ish. For me, it’s been similar to just running a regular update (not exactly the same, but still not much of an issue).

    And DNF is fine these days. You have to slightly tweak the config to allow for more simultaneous downloads and you’re good. Plus DNF5 is on the horizon. I’ve played with it a bit, and even at this stage it’s smooth and fast, just not feature complete.