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I have been using KDE Neon distro for the past year-ish... it started so stable. But in the past month or two I can barely see a day without seeing plasma crash

I have been using KDE Neon distro for the past year-ish... it started so stable. But in the past month or two I can barely see a day without seeing plasma crashing multiple times, and leaking memory like crazy (after boot 3GB RAM is used. 3 days later, even if every user process is killed, it's over 10GB... it was a while since I saw OOM killer on my desktop, but lately it keeps haunting). Even tried to reinstall the whole system from scratch... I know that "it works for you". It worked for me too. Just not recently. Whatever... I'm just yelling at the clouds, don't mind me. I know I will get back to KDE after some detour. I always do.

bitbang 4y ago
I have noticed that most people with negative reviews seem to be trying to use distros derived from Ubuntu. Mint, Neon, or Ubuntu itself, it never ends well. I've played with Ubuntu a couple times and have never been impressed. I've used KDE desktops for years in Arch and Gentoo distros without any serious issue. Seriously, if you are interested in KDE, give Arch a try.
- toyg 4y ago
  Neon is supposed to be the reference implementation, not just another mispackaging distro. Neon should be stabler than any other distro, in theory.
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- brnt 4y ago
  Ive had this small breaking (Kontakt/Kmail in particular) on many different distro's, Tumbleweed and Fedora included. I suspect small changes in config formats that are not handled between upgrades? The only rock steady distro I've found is Debian Stable, perhaps not very surprisingly. That of course comes at the cost of running older versions, but for me it's worth it.