Impressions after a week using KDE Neon: Amazing
It’s been fairly stable as I would expect from an LTS. There’s LOT of hiccups with whatever is happening in the tray area (power and battery sometimes doesn’t work).
Language is pretty screwed up. I speak both English/Spanish in a Spanish location. Installer chooses half spanish and english in the /etc/locale, and has issues changing it in the frontend.
Overall nothing I can’t fix as I put stability overall
Glad to hear! Would be nice with another update after 1 month and maybe 6 months, if it reaches that far 😅
@Sunny I would still be using it haha the days of distro hopping are over for me. It is tiring. Moving data and configuring things again is tiring.
Most of my day is just staying in vscode, deliver my solutions and just call it a day then play Guild Wars 2 to unwind.
tl;dr I’m in for the long journey unless something bad happens.
You only used it for a week and already had issues and the team did not even brick your system with an update yet. xd
Neon maybe has its niche (though I question the point of User Edition), but regular users should stay very far away. Arch is far more stable and it’s less effort to maintain it too. If you want stability and LTS go with Kububtu or Debian.
@Sina That’s a fair observation. It is highly probable that the team has no experience with doing a distribution. Sometimes I just ponder if it’s just the lack of people in the team doing QA or just not enough experience to fix issues.
Had issues with it. I seem to remember it not waking from sleep or similar.
I’m sticking with EndeavourOS and Plasma ;-)
@baggins I installed this on a laptop and put it to sleep all the time. Granted I’ve had wake up issues in arch linux sometimes it works sometimes it doesn’t .
I’m quite happy at least I can just put this(laptop) to sleep.
I recently “downgraded” from Neon (when they went to Plasma 6) to Kubuntu (which is running 5.27)
Overall I would say that Kubuntu has had fewer issues than Neon did, even excluding the Plasma 6 upgrade (which pretty much broke my system.)
I recommend Fedora Kinoite :D
@boredsquirrel Seems they just do a year support? Will check it out but I don’t think I’ll be hopping anywhere else anytime.
Yes, you have a new version every half year. That version is supported for 13 months though, so when the release after the next release comes out, you have time to upgrade to the next-old release. If you want a more stable system with more tested packages.
Or you can just upgrade. I already tried Fedora 40 (back then rawhide, as it was not branched) for testing Plasma 6, and it was way better than KDE Neon. It is just so much more stable, Idk why.
I had tons of bugs but those where all plasma bugs which I could report.
It is no issue at all to upgrade, especially on atomic desktops. Like, upgrading Debian 11-12 was scary, upgrading atomic means you end in 1:1 the system they have on their servers (plus your local changes) so they are stable as heck and dont fail. If they fail, you still have your current system.
If you “pin” the current system (
sudo ostree admin pin 0) you keep it. So if the upgrade introduces some regressions, you can just choose the older system in GRUB, and you couldrpm-ostree rollbackto stay there.
