I tried to install CachyOS with KDE on my wife's new laptop (Lenovo Yoga) about 3 weeks ago. The version available was 2025-08-28 (still is, just checked), and it was crashing KDE all the time. Quick research told me that version had lots of KDE bugs that have been since fixed, yet no new release.

Maybe it's different on Nvidia (wife's laptop had AMD graphics), but I expect a very bumpy road ahead of him.

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spectralista 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I absolute love KDE Plasma but I finally gave up for Mint Cinnamon LTS.

It has just been rock solid on any machine I have tried. KDE I was just always running into some kind of minor problem or something wouldn't work.

I have dolphin and konsole installed and open right now so once you get use to Cinnamon, it isn't really that much different but so rock solid with Mint.

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HumanOstrich 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most of the updates to CachyOS are delivered via packages. You don't need an entirely new version of the distro image that often.

	▲	skirmish 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Right, I wanted to add that the journalist will be fine if they immediately update all packages but OTOH this is not what Windows users usually do.