[politelemon]

What's the most stable distro for trying out plasma, any recommendations would be good. Ideally I'd like to run Steam games. Another question, does plasma use Wayland?

[LorenDB]

Bazzite is basically a third-party SteamOS clone that is intended to run on all devices. It has a Plasma version available. https://bazzite.gg

[omnimus]

I would agree that immutable atomic linux desktop is the future. I would go broader than Bazzite and say you can pick from whole range of similar flavors that might fit you a bit better https://universal-blue.org/ for example https://getaurora.dev/en is KDE.

It's worth saying that one advantage of atomic linux is that you can easily switch between the flavors.

[kombine]

Fedora KDE edition is quite stable for me, though it is cutting edge.

[steve1977]

In my experience, Fedora strikes quite a good balance.

It’s cutting edge, but not bleeding edge ;)

[albingroen]

I use it with Arch and it’s very stable. It does use Wayland.

[temp0826]

KDE recently created their own distro called neon.

https://neon.kde.org/

[kwk1]

KDE Linux is the new one, Neon's been around for years. https://kde.org/linux/

[temp0826]

Ah my bad, I never looked much into it I guess (haven't used a full DE in years). Apparently neon is built on Ubuntu and KDE Linux is a new immutable-based thing. (They don't list it at https://kde.org/distributions/ and it's not exactly easy to search for with that name..!)

[jaykru]

CachyOS is a great way to get started. Plasma has both X11 and Wayland backends.

[samgranieri]

I’m enjoying using Kubuntu. Yes it runs on Wayland.

[fsmv]

It is preinstalled on steam deck