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If you love the Plasma desktop and don’t mind a little more distro fragmentation, I have good news and I have great news. KDE is developing its own flagshipBut what exactly is Project Banana, how will it distinguish itself from the plethora of great KDE Plasma -powered distros already in existence, and why does it need to exist at all?has historically been promoted as the Linux distro to install if you want the latest and greatest Plasma desktop features and updates.
There’s another advantage which the team calls: “KDE can explicitly recommend it without"picking favorites" from among other distro partners.” The distro’s architecture is where KDE Linux looks to diverge from something like KDE Neon. According to the doc, it will use Arch as its base with “some degree of rolling” updates. Like SteamOS and Fedora Kinoite, that base system will be a read-only. Furthermore, images will be “Atomic” enabling easy rollbacks in case an update introduces unwanted problems.
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