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I'm using cinnamon, but want to use the new plasma on a debian based distro. But nothing is supporting it out of the box just yet.
But yes, there are a lot
If your using debian: you can ig backport kde 6 from debian testing or sid,but just a warning you might sacrifice stability.
Yeah Debian and new don't usually go hand in hand unless you use one of those distros designed around Debian Sid.
If it's stability I suppose Fedora doesn't usually get much complaints in that dept. and they have much newer repos
Am also very new and debating between Plasma and Cinnamon. KDE is generally more versatile, right? Idk.
I would go kde plasma everyday. I always find little things that limit what I am trying to do on cinnamon.
Not big things, little trivial things. An example is wireless hotspot. I cannot change the password through the gui. Why? Dunno. Deal breaker? No. But those are the little things that kde has right.
Personally I found kde buggy and kinda ugly and outdated,cinnamon was a better experience + less ugly maybe cause of gtk.