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KDE Linux is a free, user-focused operating system being built by KDE to include the best implementation of everything KDE has to offer, using the most advanced technologies.

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Based on our record, ChimeraOS seems to be a lot more popular than KDE Linux. While we know about 62 links to ChimeraOS, we've tracked only 3 mentions of KDE Linux.
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ChimeraOS is a gaming distro based on Arch Linux. It boots directly in Steam Big Picture Mode, which makes this a great alternative to SteamOS. It comes with a lot of games pre-installed, as well as options to use...
Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.

I'd say any rolling distro. KDE started making its own Arch based distro now: https://kde.org/linux/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
KDE now has it's own Linux distribution called KDE Linux! https://kde.org/linux/ https://news.itsfoss.com/kde-linux-alpha/... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
I wouldn't say they are reinventing the wheel. Putting a new set of rims on them, maybe... "KDE Linux is an “immutable base OS” Linux distro created using Arch Linux packages, but it should not be considered an “Arch-based distro”; Arch... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago
There's some great Linux gaming distros out these days, https://bazzite.gg/ is based on Fedora and https://chimeraos.org/ is almost like SteamOS for non-Steam hardware. It ships a console-like UI on top of an immutable Arch base. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
OK, this one confused me. There is Chimera Linux, and also ChimeraOS - I believe they're unrelated but I had never heard of Chinera Linux and ChimeraOS is a gaming focusses distro. Odd that there are two with Chimera in the name:... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I assumed this was a post about ChimeraOS, a gaming focused Linux distro, but it seems this is talking about a totally different Linux distribution with the same name. Chimera OS: https://chimeraos.org/ Chimera Linux:... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
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