Yeah how DARE he look out for his rights and protect himself by knowing what he’s legally allowed to do! Don’t you know, this is America where corporate interests trump individual rights?

Oh wait, you’re from Canada? Shit.

(Just kidding, in Canada, corps fuck us just as hard, if not harder)

I was a major opensuse tumbleweed fan to start, but this period has been fading for me as well. I can’t really put my finger on it, but several prominent members of the community just seem to always rub me the wrong way. It’s kind of like being told to go do it yourself if you want to see something done, but then being told you did the thing you wanted done wrong or you’re using OpenSUSE incorrectly if you feel the urge to do the things you tried to do. I’ve also noted the hostility to KDE in various exchanges as well, which is very weird since a lot of KDE development is apparently done on OpenSUSE.

I have a major server running MicroOS that I’m looking to ditch and do a re-install on, but “stable, rolling” is a hard niche to fill when you might be looking for some extra kernel features that can’t/don’t ship directly in the Linux kernel. I’m stuck for now, but keen on the lookout for a decent replacement that fills the same niche as MicroOS for a server.

I couldn’t agree more. I think that tying yourself to a specific distribution is a good way to keep yourself in a box. I think the better question here is “What DE do you prefer?” and then choose your distro based on your preferences for desktop environments while keeping other things in mind (i.e. frozen packages or rolling base).

I, like yourself, pretty much require KDE to be functional on my desktop. A great distro for me is one that ships new KDE releases without much delay (or at least, one that’s not completely unreasonable) without having to wait for the next LTS release to get all the goodies. This narrows down the choices pretty substantially as there aren’t a lot of distros that meet this spec:

• Arch
• Tumbleweed
• Fedora
• NixOS (debatable on the keeping KDE up-to-date iirc)
• KDE Neon
• Ubuntu with PPAs (least favourite way to stay up to date though)

I prefer to have a rolling (or close to rolling base) so that really only leaves me with the top 3 options.

I’m not really here to shill for KDE, but just encourage folks to find the DE that feels most comfortable to them and then work on your requirements from there.