I’m currently on Kubuntu 24.04 and I feel like I’m missing out on a lot of new features, especially with KDE Plasma where I’m still on v5 instead of v6. Missing on things like HDR capability for gaming for example.

With 26.04 coming in a few months, is it worth it to upgrade right now to 25.10? Will I face any problems?

Or should I just go ahead and wipe it with the latest Debian stable which seems to already be more up to date? Or should I switch to Fedora or OpenSUSE or something else? For Arch, Endeavour OS and Catchy OS seem like the best options, but I don’t know if I want to move to a rolling bleeding-edge distro that could break at any time. They seem more like an enthusiast distro than anything else to me. But, that’s just the impression I get.

Here’s what I’m looking for in a distro:

  • Non-commercial preferably and especially not from the U.S.
  • Good for gaming, NVidia graphics card compatibility and gaming device support.
  • Stability and robustness (I don’t have time to mess around fixing things. I’d rather have slightly older software that works, than bleeding edge software that breaks.)
  • Also trying to move away from Snap.
  • Not interested in immutable distros.
  • Ease of installing 3rd party drivers and codecs (This is something Ubuntu does quite well actually)
  • Must have KDE Plasma as desktop.

Any suggestions?

  • rescue_toaster@lemmy.zip
    8·
    18 hours ago

    I doubt debian is what you want if you want to stay up to date. It’s newish now, but won’t get updates for another 2 years.

    I’ve never run into issues updating to all short term Ubuntu releases between LTS versions when I used Ubuntu. Though I’ve now switched to Debian as I don’t care about latest updates and some snaps consistently gave me issues.

    Maybe Fedora is what you would prefer though?

    KDE is available on any distro. Just need to install it if it’s not the default desktop.

    • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caOPEnglish
      5·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah, but Debian is newer now than Ubuntu. It doesn’t have snaps, is stable as hell, and honestly I don’t think it’s a major problem if it’s not updated in 2 years considering it would have what I’m looking forward to. (I think) Like HDR support for example.

    • hallettj@leminal.spaceEnglish
      1·
      13 hours ago

      For Debian on desktop it’s common to run Debian Testing, or Unstable. In that case it’s a rolling release that is always ahead of Ubuntu.