KDE Linux is an “immutable base OS” Linux distro created using Arch Linux packages, but it should not be considered an “Arch-based distro”; Arch is simply a means to an end, and KDE Linux doesn’t even ship with the pacman package manager.
KDE Linux leans on Systemd for a great deal of functionality. Updates are atomic and image-based, with the last 5 OS images cached on disk. Only the Wayland session is supported. Apps primarily come from Flatpak.
Absolutely, it looks like it’s mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.
In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, “chocolate chip cookie based”, but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.
I probably won’t use it for the simple fact that it will likely use the rolling release style of updates. I am more of a stable release fella myself, so I think I’ll stick to LMDE.
Note that KDE Linux is completely different from Neon:
/usris a read-only, atomically updatederofsvolume backed by a single file, allowing rollback to any of the last 5 OS imagesI love the direction they’re going with it, but I personally won’t be running it because I like to tinker.
https://linux.kde.org/#what-kind-of-base-technology-does-kde-linux-use
They disagree with calling it arch based:
They can disagree, but if I take your recipe and then change it, no matter how much, my starting point is still based on your recipe….
Absolutely, it looks like it’s mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.
In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, “chocolate chip cookie based”, but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.
I probably won’t use it for the simple fact that it will likely use the rolling release style of updates. I am more of a stable release fella myself, so I think I’ll stick to LMDE.