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The original was posted on /r/fedora by /u/magnoli09 on 2023-12-17 20:47:47.

Fedora is the last mainstream distro I’ve used.

I never expected Fedora to be a premier KDE distro, especially considering some opinionated blog posts online (e.g. GNOME is our only supported workstation edition).

I also never ventured too much to try it because honestly in past years, whenever I would boot Fedora KDE I would immediately stumble upon some crash.

But as of Fedora 39 I was impressed. KDE does better in a distro updated at a faster pace and it shines in Fedora. For me it’s a hidden gem.

Now I am currently using Fedora Rawhide with Plasma 6 Beta and this is simply amazing, this is shaping up to be a wonderful release. I tried openSUSE Krypton, Neon unstable and Fedora Rawhide and of the three, Rawhide is the one in best shape with Plasma 6 Beta.

Plasma 6 (Default Wayland session) + Kernel 6.7 is performing as buttery smooth and same battery runtime as Windows 11 on Intel P CPU and nVME drive, barely any bugs left on Plasma, scaling and font rendering is perfect, Brave and Firefox both working great in native Wayland mode.

This thing could be released today and I wouldn’t even notice it’s still at developmental stage. I don’t think I ever had a distro perform so good before.

I’ve actually adopted it as my daily driver, not only to help report bugs to KDE before the mega release but mostly because it runs amazingly smooth.

From what I heard, there’s only a handful of people keeping KDE tidy on Fedora so for those I send my sincere appreciation for all your work and effort.