KDE Linux 
Alpha is fresh of the presses.
Grab the ISO, install it on your second computer (or vm) and help us make it the best Linux distro for everyone!
This new development is really exciting, and I could see it benefitting the community in many ways, thanks to everybody involved!
Is this distro open source?
Of course; everything KDE makes is open source!
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I must have missed something important, so now I feel stupid to ask.
What is difference between Neon and KDE Linux Alpha? To me it seems there are two distribitions out there dealing with latest KDE now.
What is package system like - taken over from Ubuntu, something from scratch, or rpm or most hopefully deb?
Best of luck wih KDE Linux nevertheless.
Regard
You can read most of it at the link.
And the neon question is answered in Announcing the Alpha release of KDE Linux – Adventures in Linux and KDE
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Thanks to meven for pointing me into the right direction!
Is it possible to install Nvidia drivers if there is no package manager in KDE Linux?
https://community.kde.org/KDE_Linux states that KDE Linux is not intended to provide…“Proprietary NVIDIA kernel driver (for graphics cards older than NVIDIA GTX 16xx). NVIDIA GPUs must either be new enough to use the open-source kernel modules that can be distributed in-tree, or else use Nouveau. Proprietary NVIDIA userspace driver components and utilities are pre-installed.”
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This quote is a bit out of context:
It is not a feature or even a goal:
Non-goals
Does not have to support the runtime installation of kernel modules. This will prevent the out-of-the-box installation of, for example:
Proprietary NVIDIA kernel driver (for graphics cards older than NVIDIA GTX 16xx). NVIDIA GPUs must either be new enough to use the open-source kernel modules that can be distributed in-tree, or else use Nouveau. Proprietary NVIDIA userspace driver components and utilities are pre-installed.
Those are examples of why KDE Linux will not have runtime installation of kernel modules.
The better reference is in KDE Linux - KDE Community
Who is KDE Linux for?
[...]
You don’t have an NVIDIA GPU that’s over 6 years old
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I wanna try the distro. How often do you push updates? Are they binary or must we compile from source ?
I’d recommend reading through KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki for general information.
Right now there’s a new update every day. It’s a binary distro, no compilation required.
you can’t grab ISO, it is raw image
I would have preferred it to be as an .iso format. Apparently raw2iso no longer works and I can’t download the image writer on my current Plasma distro, PCLOS Debian - could you not make the KDE USB writer available as a .deb package?
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@swarfendor437, KDE ISO Image Writer is known as isoimagewriter. If you’re on Debian (or Debian-based), simply update your system first, then run sudo apt install isoimagewriter.
It appears to be present, but indicates 0 B in size! I visited the Pling store and downloaded the service- …package. Using PCLOS Debian (Plasma 5.27), with separate root password:
Struggling to get this working!
Is it compatible with Ventoy?
Unfortunately no 
You need to flash it to a USB Drive.