@13reak @artfulrobot #Fedora is great. Something changed with it, or my perception of it, late last year or early this year, such that nowadays i think especially its #KFedora & #Kinoite are marvellous [years ago, i regarded its KFedora as poor].

On your...

>#archlinux but that comes with stability issues (frequently crashing builds)

...i well know #ArchLinux seems to be a popular whipping-boy, erm, whipping-peep, for/by many #Penguinistas . Mostly, each time, i just note my Conky's displayed installation date for my daily-driver #ArchLinux of 2019-12-06, recall its absolutely rock-solid reliability every day since, & then just go... 🤷‍♀️

I'm back at my #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma tower now [which system remains, frankly, superb], but for several hours earlier i was using my #Fedora 38 #KDEPlasma lappy. After finishing all my usual browsing & such on it, i did the 200+ pkg update backlog i've been ignoring for a few days. Watching all the pkgs downloading via #DNF in #Yakuake, i shook my head in admiration... #KFedora continues to keep up really well with Arch, not only with the #Plasma desktop itself, but also #Gear & #Frameworks. 💜

It. Did. Not. Used. To. Be. This. Good, some years ago, so, since at least early this year, otherwise maybe late last year, something wunnerful happened wrt active support of KDE by Fedora. Nowadays it is, to be blunt, bloody excellent... kudos & thanks! 🎉

#Arch remains the holder of my heart, but if it went away tomorrow, i'd replace it with KFedora .

IMO, anyone who somehow dislikes #RollingRelease #distros, but loves KDEPlasma, who atm inclines to #openSUSE #Leap KDE, or KDE in some #Debian / #Ubuntu thing [ergo you get stuck with obsolete versions], really should seriously consider KFedora.

@BustaMarx

>The #kdeplasma default environment is excellent as well

Yes, #KDEPlasma is superb, isn't it! 💜

But why... *why*... why use such a static distro for an essentially rolling DE? Afaict your versions of #Plasma, #Gear, #Frameworks, #Qt must be behind current, meaning you get to enjoy none of the current bugfixes & features. I can never understand such a decision. 😕

From https://wiki.debian.org/PkgQtKde/BookwormReleasePlans, afaict, your:
Plasma = 5.27.2
Gear = 22.12.3
Frameworks = 5.103

otoh, in #KFedora [#Fedora #KDE] atm:
Plasma = 5.27.5
Gear = 23.04.1
Frameworks = 5.106.0

and in #ArchLinux atm:
Plasma = 5.27.5
Gear = 23.04.1
Frameworks = 5.106.0

So, afaict, atm your #KDE pkg versions are old but not [yet] ancient [compared to prior stable Debians]. However, over time, are you happy that your daily Plasma UX will less & less resemble that for users in other distros which keep up much more actively with the KDE release cycle?

Isn't Debian Stable more suited to comparatively static DEs like Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon? 🤷‍♀️

@78857

[my, my, haven't you been on a fast Favourite festival with my posts, over the last 10'! 😜 ]

Do you mean 1. how is Plasma generically, or 2. how is it specifically as deployed by Fedora?

1: it's fab, my fav DE by miles. As the 5.x series draws to an end, the #Plasma Devs have done a mighty job with bug fixing. 👍

2: afaik, all the pertinent #Fedora Devs / Maintainers / Packagers are doing a similarly great job. B4 this year i didn't like #KFedora, but now i love it. 👍