Have been reading that the recent Kubuntu is going downhill (with bugs) quickly :/
Was looking at Neon, but I agree with you, I prefer stable over cutting edge (Will look at in in VBox though).
I have seen Maui, but was put off by one of their release names (”Cuba Libre”), but I suppose I shouldn’t be so judgmental ;)
Overall, I was debating over Manjaro and Neon, but waiting on more result comments.
I’ll have to keep that in mind. I think they’re spreading themselves too thin. They’re trying to build an open source phone with Plasma.
I just read on wikiped tonight that KDE has pretty much been taken over by some German org.
The other distro I really liked was Ubuntu Studio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Studio
It looks good, has some eye candy and is a stable workhorse. It’s geared towards multimedia production. It was the first time I was ever able to use to do a screen record video, encode it and upload to youtube. This is on a Thinkpad W500 that has a Windows Vista sticker on it. This was less than two years ago. I’m still running the same machine so I might have to swap back.
There’s a ton of multimedia software that 99.6% of people will never use and iirc, all that software was optional while installing but I didn’t see that option last time I played with it. Can always uninstall stuff.
I wonder if it’s the kubuntu people or the KDE people. They overlap a lot, share some server space etc but KDE is the larger endeavor. Maybe Plasma and mobile devices have them sidetracked and that could last years.
When/if I start having problems with kubuntu, I’ll go back to Ubuntu Studio or maybe by that time, straight up Ubuntu, if they add some settings and control to the gnome desktop that they’re swapping to. It needs major work though. I’ll give things a year.
Linux devs are scrambling right now due to all the new “devices” out there. Touch AND a good interface for it.
Meanwhile Android runs on the linux kernel. Highly modified to work on devices and vacuum your life in the form of data.