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Filling up the Linux bingo card quick this morning...
Noobs: "Help! How can I do X?"
Community: "Pfft! Why do you want to X? You should be using Y instead."
Well the hardware he has better support on the recent releases.KDE neon wouldn't be a good choice for it and kde neon is a rolling release of KDE so there are more bugs than normal ubuntu
Not sure how I was supposed to know that without being familiar with either of them yet. 🙃
Then how did you even choose you distro man
I always figured I'd have to try several to figure out what I wanted without knowing the difference between any of them.
Ubuntu was too obvious a choice, so I skipped it like I used to skip top 40 radio stations.
So I just kinda looked around at some less popular ones that still had guts of a popular choice. KDE sounds better than GNOME to me, and a friend of mine who took the plunge already is using Kubuntu and like it. So I landed here for my first rodeo. I've I dive in I figured I'd start absorbing more knowledge, since it's far easier to want to learn more once you have at least one familiar starting point and know some lingo, and once you're actively using it and have more of a personal stake in it. I got the installer prepped a couple weeks ago and only found out a few days ago that rolling release distros were a thing. I knew Ubuntu had a regular and LTS version from when I messed with a live CD version about 20 years ago, but didn't see that option with this one, so at the time I thought it only had a regular version.
Picked up the used GPU from him a few days ago and he mentioned rolling release then, which is how I learned they existed. Didn't realize this was one until you said that.
Given that new info, I'm more than open to trying fedora because of that.
But I hope that answers your question.
Sorry if I confused you there it is ubuntu LTS in the base but the KDE desktop is rolling that's the only difference so semi-rolling would be the proper word.And I said fedora since it is updated more frequently than ubuntu LTS.
That makes more sense in how I looked at it in the first place. I prefer a more stable one, so it makes sense that I saw it because of being based on an LTS. I didn't realize the KDE part was updated more often. That's not terrible.
Unfortunately I think I'm gonna have to get a new board anyway, so it's gonna be moot for a while. One channel of RAM seems to be borked. There is a tiny amount of hair in one door and I don't think that's causing it, but I'm gonna go out next time I get a chance to get a can of compressed air, since mine was apparently gone.
But it's more likely a bent pin or bad board at this point. Very frustrating.
For the nvidia card it may be terrible. I have one it would always black screen after every update.KDE is pretty much halted for now since they are getting ready for plasma 6. There are not much resources for KDE neon compared to other main ones.
Right. And based on your earlier comment when I get a working board I will probably just try fedora next.
If you want a different desktop there are fedora spins just like ubuntu spins.
I still like the idea of plasma, so that's my intention atm.
Fedora KDE is there as an option in fedora spins.
Before even commenting this do you even know what KDE neon is ? It's a distro , I would recommend to intermediates than newbies because of the troubleshooting you need to do everytime when updating.Arch was more easy than using this.
Check out the one-man band. "Don't you know that I'm smarter than you?" and "I use Arch, btw" in one comment!
I am using arch as reference for a difficulty scale since most of us have already tried installing arch.The point is it's difficult in using KDE neon without proper knowledge.
Anything and everything is difficult without proper knowledge. These comments add nothing to the conversation, but they do promote negative stereotypes within the community. Be better.