The snapification is a horrible idea …
This.
I’m using KDE on Kubuntu. And i absolutely love KDE, but the snapification that (K)Ubuntu is doing is horrible.
I am considering switching to SuSE for that reason alone.
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Haha, yes, you could make that argument. Although if I’m going to be pedantic, you could argue that reading a book is usually considered leisure time, so we don’t tend to calculate how much money it’s costing us.
Using a computer is often considered “productivity time”, which is usually viewed through the lens of money.
Regardless, although I can understand where the Linux Tax argument comes from, it’s really only applicable to the learning stage, which could be a few hours, days or weeks. Once you’ve learned enough to be productive again, you can calculate how long before it’s paid for itself, which might be just a few hours, days or weeks 
After that, it’s profit!
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And that’s another big difference between Linux and MS-Windows (or MacOS): few install MS-windows themselves, it usually comes pre-installed…
(Here, it’s quite hard to find especially a laptop without windows pre-installed 
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After that, it’s profit!
After that, it’s knowledge. It’s not just productivity. Knowledge is never free and you can never have enough.
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Oh yes! I’d forgotten that not-so-small detail! So many people don’t face initial installation at all, and those want Linux face what may, to them, be the added difficulty of adding to the already-installed system.
If this is a laptop or small system on which all the storage space is already allocated, the task of resizing and creating partitions, even with a GUI app (I use gparted), is daunting. It’s like wet-cleaning one’s camera sensor for the first time!
You get the same issues going the other way…
In my (limited) experience, once installed, Linux is no more difficult to use than MS-windows or MacOS.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t a learning curve switching between OSes, but that holds for any switch (even switching between MS-Windows versions can have a learning curve…)
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I think there is no “best” Linux distro. For me, choosing a Linux distro is an infinite loop. I tell you why.
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I set first my criteria for it (things I really need). For example rolling release, support for the hardware I use (graphic card, scanner, printer, etc.), color calibration and support for other software.
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Then I scan the internet and choose a few of them, install them and test for a period of time, one after another. If everything is working with minimal effort, I have a hit and I keep it.
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If, while using a working distro, my criteria was changed and not anymore met, I go to step 1.
Now I’m using dual boot, KUbuntu and Windows, and I’m in step 2, trying to find new Linux distro.
Later edit: I use Linux since 1998 and started with Red Hat, Slack, Debian… Distros only available on CDs from magazines or friends. 
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Same feelings about KDE Plasma, fantastic. Must say I really disliked SuSE with Plasma, had a lot of problems with it and it felt really inconsistent. I’m now now on Aurora (based on Universal Blue, based on Fedora) and it uses Plasma. Can really recommend it if you can get along with an atomic distro.
If couldn’t run an atomic distro I would definitely try Tuxedo. Their move to Debian Testing is right up my ally. Relatively stable (but moving) base and up to date desktop environment. Comes with Snapper and Btrfs configured. Using this with Homebrew and Flatpaks is something I’d consider.
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I would also look into MX Linux KDE , its a little slower being on Debian stable, but its packed with tools and software + a customized, up to date kernel that makes it worth checking out.
I’m still extremely happy with Manjaro on both of my machines. Rolling distro, access to AUR (when absolutely required), rolling release with a decent schedule, can use arch packages in a pinch, KDE/Plasma with Wayland and support for older NVIDIA cards.
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I feel the same way. Every time I tried tumbleweed I ran into weird issues. They also ship a modified default configuration instead of the base plasma like most distros do. Not a big fan of any SUSE distro
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The problem for me with MX Linux is that you will, at some point, be running a roughly two year old version of Plasma. The desktop environment is one of the few packages I want the OS to provide recent versions of as it’s one of few things I can’t get via Flatpaks, AppImages or Homebrew (which I rely on for user-facing applications).
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They have a backported section on the package installer that addresses your issues, at least on the package side.
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He was complaining about the packages being outdated, but you can use the mx & debian backports to get the most recent packages.
They were referring to the post directly above. This is sometimes a specific issue with discourse. If you “answer” the post directly above (as I am doing with you) there is no indication of this.
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This is why I prefer a short quote
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I went with SuSE Tumbleweed, and as it is with all Linux distros there are minor quirks and peculiarities. I used SuSE something like 20 years ago, so it’s been fun going back, after having been around quite a few others.
After a week of usage I can say that I’m happy to get rid of snaps and KDE is KDE. It took less than a couple of hours to get everything up and running and looking the way it did on Kubuntu. KDE is awesome.
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It’s hard to say. On one hand Wayland suck ass at color management by assuming every app is sRGB while X11 is basically dead. The only app I see interacting with Wayland’s support on wide-gamut correctly mostly fine is Chromium. Darktable does not work well on Wayland.
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Still, X works very well.
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If one can find a distro that one likes that still supports it. 