Note: I don’t know if I’m posting this in the right community, I joined Lemmy recently.

I use KDE Neon on my desktop, and I recently decided to install Linux on my laptop. I don’t want to install KDE Neon onto my laptop though, because it only has fairly up to date software through Flatpak (at least for me).

Is there a good distro with very up to date software that doesn’t require me to check on it often, and that I can probably make it work within 15 days? (I have the list of apps I need.) I prefer an Arch-based distro that lets me remove a lot of distro specific customization. However, if there is some other distro “base” that has software up to date like Arch and the AUR, please also let me know.

(I tried Arch already, but it seems to be too hard for me to configure, and it has multiple weird issues for me, so I don’t really want to use it.)

Edit 1: (Late edit because lemmy.world was down for the day) I am going to try out Fedora KDE, Endeavour KDE, and Manjaro KDE out. Might also check out Kinoite. Will update after I have tested each.

Edit 2: I have decided on using Endeavour, mostly because I’m used to Arch, dnf is so much slower on my network than pacman or yay, and it seems that Endeavour has more packages available without any additional configuration in the package manager settings. The only major difference that I felt was that Fedora didn’t have “optional” packages.

  • @danielfgomEnglish
    -1•1 year ago

    Yes, Linux Mint. Very stable, low resources, great UI, rock solid. Best overall distro out there.

      • @danielfgomEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        That’s true. If he needs up to date, then it’s Arch or opensuse Tumbleweed

    • @tester1121OP
      1•1 year ago

      I actually used Mint as my first distro, however the software it has is way too out of date for me (for example, Wine was many months out of date for me), so I can’t use it.

      • @danielfgomEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        That’s because it’s an LTS. There may be a way to backport the latest kernel and drivers but I’m not sure.

        I suppose if the games always require the very latest drivers then it’s problem but you’d expect them to run on older drivers also.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Its Ubuntu, and I for some reason got newer packages on Debian than Ubuntu. Not sure how fast Forks are like Linux mint.

      • @danielfgomEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Is that Debian 12? It has the latest stuff at the moment, because it’s just come out, but it will start like that for several years.

        Unless you switch to the Unstable repo, but then you might get system issues.