Though I assume you’re a KDE user and thus waiting for Kalpa to become mature before a test ride.

That’s right!

Could you elaborate on what you didn’t like about Aurora and Bazzite;

Bazzite comes with Lutris and Steam preinstalled as native packages. I don’t use Lutris and want to use Steam as flatpak, so I decided to try Aurora.

For some reason it was surprisingly unstable. I’ve had various issues with KDE, DXVK and a few mainstream errors, that I had to either try to fix myself (like this one) or simply ignore (like this one). I’ve switched back to openSUSE and now I’m happier than ever about openQA existence.

Wdym? Installing Nvidia drivers on openSUSE is just one simple command:
sudo zypper in nvidia-driver-G06-kmp-default

That’s all, no additional configuration required, even the kernel arguments will be handled by the Nvidia driver.

openSUSE Tumbleweed. I’ve tried switching to Aurora and Bazzite, but ended up using openSUSE again and now I love it even more.

EDIT: Typos.

EDIT 2: I also love tinkering with Void and Alpine on VMs.

Don’t use AppImages.

Vanguard (Valorant, LoL) detects a VM pretty easily.

People should learn to separate developers from their software. Assholes are everywhere, with this approach we can end up ditching every piece of software existing.

MX Linux is the best, obviously. Otherwise it wouldn’t be #1 on DistroWatch, right? /j

I’m scared to read other comments in this thread, because of how hateful people usually are when someone mentions Hyprland.

Gnome likes to remove important APIs from time to time which leads to extensions being broken for an awfull long time after an update and also has all sorts of issues with QT apps, simply because Gnome devs do not want to bother with things they consider not important.

What’s your issue with KDE?

EDIT: Typos.

KDE is rock solid on my device, unlike Gnome. What do you mean by that exactly?

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I hope that LadyBird could become a viable alternative as well.

I wanna buy a PostmarketOS compatible device someday.

https://nosystemd.org/

Sorry, I couldn’t resist. /j, obviously.

Both have nonfree stuff in there.

But flatpak’s backend is open source and self-hostable, while snap’s is proprietary and not self-hostable. Flatpak is the lesser of evils from this point of view.

No, optionally free is not enough.

the most popular distribution still uses Snap

Ubuntu is the most popular? On server maybe, on desktop I doubt it.

Flatpak does not support CLI only applicatoins

It is not true. You can install Neovim as flatpak, for example.

Also some may like it more that Snap relies on AppArmor instead using the custom solution of Flatpak.

It only means, that on distros without AppArmor you get almost no sandboxing of snap applications.

The only advantage snap has is the ability to package drivers as snaps. Other than that there’s simply no reason to choose proprietary-backed snap over flatpak.

EDIT: Typos.

Snap? Can we not?

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We can’t choose for you, unfortunately, only give you advice. My advice question is: Kubuntu and Debian (KDE Neon too, iirc) are an LTS distros, why would you chose them given your criteria?

For myself, I can recommend Bazzite or Aurora, if you are okay with using an immudable distro. They are both Fedora Atomic based, but Bazzite is gaming first, while Aurora is a general purpose distro.

openSUSE Tumbleweed is also amazing. It is rolling and generally one of the best KDE experiences you can get. It also has a snapper tool, which lets you to rollback to the state before the update or even further.