KDE Linux or Kinoite?

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I’ve been trying KDE Linux alpha - working very well so far.

I wondered what are seen as the advantages (or disadvantages) of KDE Linux vs Kinoite. I can see why KDE Linux is better for KDE devs as it gives access to pre-release code, but what about use as a daily driver for everyone else.

My first thoughts were that the package layering in Kinoite might be more robust than, say, Homebrew in KDE Linux, but am I missing something? And what other factors should we be considering?

Thanks
Mike

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I’ll venture that it is too early to say.

Once they have a ‘user’ edition that provides official releases, and they have finalized all the different things they are looking at, that’s when to compare.

As for layering, there is no package layering if I am not mistaken. There aren’t any native packages or package manager, again, as I understand it. There wasn’t the last time I had it on real hardware.

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Try both and see which one works best for you.

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Yeah, that. Also understand the big differences between these projects, too. Kinoite has been around for a few years and is a fairly mature implementation of “Fedora KDE, but immutable”. KDE Linux is a new project with a different scope and set of goals, a much lower level of maturity, and a faster pace of change and development.

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You can see the points of Kinoite in:

KDE Linux is an alpha yet. Needs a lot of testing and report bugs, feedback, etc.

And more distros have versions with containers (i.e openSUSE).

Regards

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Thanks for all the responses.

I understand that KDE Linux will take a while to reach the same level of maturity as Kinoite. Maybe a better question would have been: who are the eventual target audience, aside from KDE devs?

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It is fairly clear

Who is KDE Linux for?

At the moment, only the Testing edition is available. The more these sentences describe you, the happier you’ll be using it:

You’re a KDE fan
You get excited about modern technology like Systemd, immutable OSs, containerized apps, and Btrfs
You want to participate in KDE’s QA process and find issues early
You’re a KDE Plasma developer
You don’t have an NVIDIA GPU that’s over 6 years old

I’d say that a version for US Normal Folk would essentially be all the above, minus the developer part, to be honest.

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I think the goal for the stable edition is regular users and hardware partners

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