RefreshOS is a Debian and KDE-based distro with a difference: it casts its net a lot wider for tools and components.

RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian-based distro using the KDE desktop – but very little of KDE apart from the desktop itself. This version is based on Debian 12, so, fully updated, it's effectively Debian 12.11. This also means that it's still based on KDE Plasma 5 – specifically, 5.27.5, the stock version for Debian "Bookworm."

Distro creator Jordan Tyler Burchett of eXybit Technologies told us that earlier versions of RefreshOS were built on Kubuntu, but it switched to Debian with this version:

We're very aware that Debian 12 is now borderline ancient. Hardware compatibility issues have been our biggest challenge, and addressing this is our main focus for RefreshOS 3. That relea

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