Hi, I never used popOS 😉 I tested it and I found pretty terrible their colored gray interface. A very bad choice that can influence color balance for making art, but if you can change the default theme it can be ok. 😅

I'm still on Fedora KDE: I went from 36 https://www.davidrevoy.com/article913/fedora-36-kde-spin-for-a-digital-painting-workstation-reasons-and-post-install-guide , to 39 now. But with the distro moving to Wayland-only for Fedora 40, it's hard to advice it (Krita on running on XWayland is unstable, see a troubleshoot classic done this week: https://krita-artists.org/t/sometimes-krita-will-launch-in-a-bugged-state-and-the-only-way-to-fix-it-is-to-restart-my-computer/84044/1 ).

Fedora 36 KDE Spin for a digital painting workstation: reasons and post-install guide

Website of David Revoy (aka Deevad), artist and instructor using only Free/Libre and Open-Source software since 2009.

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My personal recommendation would be to go with Kubuntu since you're already familiar with it. Not many things change between linux distros (at least for non-professional work) apart from some MAJOR changes such as fedora going wayland which a shitty move. Especially since Krita, Scribus and OpenOffice are major apps. Dual booting is the best option and on a different HDD/ssd will give no headache! 😁

Sidenote: if you _must_ change distro I'd go with opensuse, mint or debian. Better to stick to basic distros since they have the best support 😀

@jimnakos Yes, +1 with jimnakos; if you already found a bit of comfort zone using Kubuntu, then keep it. It's a good distro.

I recommend also the blog post https://raghukamath.com/setting-up-debian-linux-with-btrfs-kde-plasma-for-a-creative-workstation/ , with a detailed how-to Debian KDE workstation.

Setting up Debian Linux with Btrfs, KDE Plasma for a creative workstation

Hello Everyone 👋🏽, recently I distro-hopped to Debian Linux from Fedora Linux. And I thought I should write down all the steps that I did during this migration.

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