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KDE Linux Distribution Is Available for Public Testing, Download Now

posted by Marius Nestor on Sep 06, 2025

I heard rumors about KDE Linux in the past, but I never thought the KDE Project would put so much effort into creating its own distro, especially since we already have KDE neon, which, in my opinion, does a tremendous job at providing the community with access to the latest and upcoming KDE software.

Unlike KDE neon, which is based on Ubuntu, KDE Linux uses packages from the Arch Linux distribution as a base, but the devs don’t consider it an Arch-based distro. It has an immutable base, but allows users to install extra packages and do some system changes by using the systemd-sysext command.

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