# KDE neon 7 Hacker News commenters recommended KDE neon and 3 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months. **Verdict:** People recommend it for the latest KDE Plasma desktop and a polished overall feel. Critics report update problems, including painful dist-upgrades that break software. ## Why people recommend it - Polished, impressive overall experience (2 comments): "After booting up from the stick I was absolutely blown away myself, because of how good it was." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45880212)) "very polished experience overall" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45865047)) - Latest KDE Plasma desktop (1 comments): "Running the latest KDE Plasma desktop with the latest mesa and pipewire made a huge difference." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46467995)) - Good experience on a new PC (1 comments): "I put KDE Neon on it. It was great!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720780)) ## What people warn about - Updates and upgrades cause breakage (2 comments): "Almost always caused issues after update with stuff crashing due to mismatch of versions talking to each other over D-Bus" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45798426)) "dist-upgrade was the biggest pain with the Ubuntu based KDE neon too" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46098658)) - Issues blamed on neon itself (2 comments): "I am pretty sure that was a kde neon issue" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46096758)) "way less issues than kde neon" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45987023)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Ubuntu](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ubuntu.md): 560 recommend - [Debian](https://hackerapproved.com/p/debian.md): 552 recommend - [Fedora Linux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/fedora.md): 437 recommend - [Arch Linux](https://hackerapproved.com/p/arch-linux.md): 362 recommend - [Linux Mint](https://hackerapproved.com/p/linux-mint.md): 277 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "KDE neon", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kde-neon/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).