What distro for KDE development

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What distro for KDE development

For well over a decade, maybe 15yrs I've been using Ubuntu and now Pop-OS I am really interested in starting to getting involved in KDE development somehow as retired software engineer. Also keen to switch to Arch....

What do you use for distro with your KDE work ?

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Troy

lemmy.ca

I'm out of the loop, but I used to use Slackware -- largely because the distro didn't get mad when I just installed things from source directly onto the filesystem. No dependency tracking ;)

But I had a lot of experience before that with other distros.

Good choices are probable OpenSuse (tumbleweed), Arch, or Neon. Actually, I don't know the current state of Neon... is that still a thing?

Grangle1 reply

lemmy.world

I just installed Neon on my PC a couple months ago and it's my daily driver. Yep, it's still a thing. 😁

coolmojo

lemmy.kde.social

For KDE development I would recommend the KDE Neon developer edition as it has all the tools you need to get started.

louis_sch

lemmy.kde.social

I'm on Arch and very happy with the experience

Molecular0079

lemmy.world

Any distro that allows you to patch and rebuild KDE packages quickly will be good. Personally, I really like Arch for this purpose because working off of PKGBUILDS just rock.