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?