[noahadavis]

I've been using KDE neon which actually works very well. The core of it is LTS Ubuntu (currently 16.04), but the Plasma DE gets updates pretty much every day and KDE apps get updated about once a week. Except for one time when my proprietary nvidia driver stopped working after a big update to the DE (now I use the nouveau driver), it has been pretty much flawless in terms of stability.

[gcp]

Hmm, looks interesting. I use KDE on Kubuntu 16.04, but have been annoyed by some memory leaks in Plasma that eventually cause Plasmashell to lock up at 100% CPU in the Qt GC system.

I tried upgrading via the ppa backports but the updated Plasma broke a ton of things. Given that my demands on the DE are really minimal it made me consider switching off of KDE.