Having used everything under the Sun at one stage, this summer I’ll probably migrate my two main systems from Kubuntu and OpenSUSE to another KDE-based distro.
If you can recommend anything I’m all ears.
I’m doing this for a few reasons:
- While the default desktop of OpenSUSE is KDE, it uses a lot of GNOME/Mono
- Now that Attachmate has acquired Novell the future of the distro is uncertain
- The six-month Ubuntu release cycle is too aggressive and often results in regressions I’m sick of fixing
Here’s my shortlist:
Other candidates include Arch Linux and Fedora. The fact that Fedora is GNOME-based with a KDE “spin” doesn’t rock my socks off.
A distro focused on app integration and testing will be at the forefront.
Maybe I’ll be searching for a while…
If Ubuntu’s 6 month release cycle is too aggressive, why not just stick to the LTS releases? Then you’re only getting one every 18 months. They tend to be less aggressive with their LTS releases.
Plus with the LTS releases they do occasional backports of later versions of KDE in the PPA’s – my work laptop is running 10.04 with KDE 4.5.3 at present.