How is KDE Neon's stability long term compared to Mint?
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| Thanks for help.
I decided to use Mint again on it with just different font size. Turns out that the tearing is caused by scaling which is in experimental mode.
| Ohh interesting!
| I prefer Orbit Mint
| Well, it depends on how much you customize your installation.
I never was interested in Mint, since it always had a strong focus on GTK/Gnome Apps. I once used "Kubuntu" on the desktop but was almost about to switch to Arch/Manjaroo before KDE neon came out. But I ended up using KDE neon since its existence. If find it became more and more stable. Stability increased significant when I started using non-KDE Desktop applications via Flatpak instead additional 3rd Party PPAs.
| And I assume with "stability" you refer to "doesn't break desktop applications through Updates". I mean, stability issues with most Linux distros are not as much a thing as it is with Windows. And even Windows improved much the last years. The two major reasons these days that cause instability are updates and/or misconfiguration.
In many cases Linux Distros are only more stable because they have a more restrictive default configuration - which can be changed by user.
| Oh so what’s the nice stable dystro you use now? Manjaro?
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| I would've just used Mint with Cinnamon but my T470 has screen tearing on it. XFCE and MATE lack it, but screen scaling is blurry compared to Cinnamon. The tearing is especially bad when watching movies.
I decided to use KDE Neon since it's straightforward and without Snap packages, but I wonder how stable it is in regards to system upgrades? On Mint you can go from version to version once mint-upgrade rolls out. Is it different on Neon?