An explanation of what we're talking about over here

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KDE neon

Finally, there's half-rolling release. Usually this means that the OS has a core which follows a fixed release cycle, ensuring greater stability, but provides rolling release desktop and applications, resulting in the user seeing newer features more quickly. An example of this is KDE Neon.

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Linux Mint

Fixed release means that a distribution will provide once in a long while provide a big upgrade, where all the installed software is updated to the latest version available to them. In between upgrades the distribution only provides security and stability updates to software. This release method has as an advantage that it tends to result in more stable systems. An example of this is Linux Mint.

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LibreOffice

First, what is a distro? Distro, is short for distribution. A Linux distribution is basically an operating system, with added software (for example LibreOffice. In Linux there are a lot of distributions. This is because each distribution has a different idea on how things should be done. For example: one distribution uses the GNOME desktop, while the other uses KDE/Plasma, for example. There are a lot of ways in which distributions can be different, which is ok.

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KDE

First, what is a distro? Distro, is short for distribution. A Linux distribution is basically an operating system, with added software (for example LibreOffice. In Linux there are a lot of distributions. This is because each distribution has a different idea on how things should be done. For example: one distribution uses the GNOME desktop, while the other uses KDE/Plasma, for example. There are a lot of ways in which distributions can be different, which is ok.

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