The KDE developers are working towards the first Beta release of KDE Linux, their own home-grown immutable operating system. The eventual plan for it is to be a version of Linux suitable for most use-cases and as a “reference implementation” of KDE Plasma and KDE apps.

Giving a status update in a blog post developer Nate Graham has gone over various major recent changes to it. Some may be happy to hear the Snap has been thrown out, as they’re now going all-in with Flatpak for downloading additional software. Graham did say that while they felt Snap actually works “better than Flatpak in some ways” it’s only available in the Arch Arch User Repository (AUR), and KDE Linux are moving away from the AUR towards not using it at all. Arch have no plans to get Snap into the main repo, so it made sense to remove it.