I've been using #Fedora40 #Kinoite on my #T480 for about a year. I think it would be a great distro for a work laptop!
It's nice to know if there is an update problem, you can just boot back to the previous update, but I haven't ever needed to do that.
Most apps you need are available on #Flathub. If you need to set up a dev environment, #Podman and #Toolbox work well!
On top of that, the #Fedora and #KDE communities are capable and friendly, so help is available.
@inaction_figure @pdq A couple of years ago iirc i created a #Kinoite VM in my #ArchLinux host, just to muck about with & keep an eye out. In it i created an #Arch #Distrobox, in which i installed #yay, with which i installed some #AUR pkgs. All that works fine, but there are papercuts i dislike & have not been able to overcome. One such is that so far i do not know how to have any such DB apps autostart with Kinoite itself.
Similarly, in Kinoite i've installed various #flatpak apps, one being #Yakuake. I've never managed to get it to obey my setting to show its icon in the System Tray, like is easily done in non-immutable Plasma distros.
Papercuts like these dissuade me from being able to think of #Kinoite, #Kalpa, #kdeLinux et al as serious future replacement Host distros on my hardware. However, i approach these matters as an unskilled hobbyist, not someone with deep Linux knowledge, so would appreciate relevant advice from those who actually know such stuff.
I donāt think thatās true. I used KDE Neon for several years before trying #Kinoite. #KdeNeon is at the cutting edge of KDE and Plasma, so there were occasional pain points. Kinoite is ājust behind cutting edgeā of Plasma, and I havenāt encountered any problems that kept me from using it. There ARE bugs, but they are rarely worth mentioning. Certainly no worse than Windows, and they get fixed much faster. I recommend Kinoite as a daily driver!
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