Ages ago, back between 2005 and 2011, I had switched from Macs to an All-in-one IBM pc. What I ended up installing on it was PC-BSD because the networking that came with it out of the box worked very well with my company's firewall/network security.
It came with a KDE interface. I used it for a year until I switched back to a mac and purchased a product that I was able to log into work with... But while I have not been a KDE fan in recent times, mostly GTK/Gnome, I did have fond memories of that year.
A week or so ago I began hunting around for a good KDE distro. The caveat was that I did want to be able to install WINE and PLAYONLINUX so I could play a couple of my favorite games. I tried Neon, KaOS, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu and Fedora.
KaOS is, without a doubt, the best looking KDE distro (of course that is subjective). But it was limiting when it came to getting gaming software set up. OpenSUSE was OK but the actual installation did not end well for me. Neon is the KDE kitchen sink and worked alright, but I did run into one or two struggles with Ubuntu software. Kubuntu was loaded to the hilt, and it worked well, but I felt there were some KDE performance issues. Finally I installed the KDE spin of Fedora 31. I always have a love/not-love-so-much relationship with Fedora as I always end up breaking something in some update. But so far it has been very nice. KDE performs very well, and Fedora performs well in general.
There is also a KDE version of Solus that I might try...
Anyway, just an update of my computing adventures.
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