Can anyone here speak on the daily-drive-ability or AlmaLinux? Specifically setup with KDE and not Gnome?!
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@micahbp Alma doesn't ship KDE. Most people get it from EPEL. It lags behind a bit, latest plasma is 5.27, and currently EPEL 8 and EPEL 9 have plasma 5.24. EPEL 8 won't get updated past that due to the older system libraries. EPEL 9 should get plasma 5.26 in a few months, right after the RHEL 9.2 release. It's unclear how far EPEL 9 will be able to update plasma up to, so plasma 6 is not guaranteed.
@micahbp Also be aware when those RHEL/Alma minor releases happen, your system with KDE packages installed temporarily won't be able to be updated. Those minor versions usually bring a QT update and all the KDE packages have to be rebuilt to work with it. This causes `dnf update` to fail for a few days until EPEL can catch up.
In my opinion, for a workstation you'll probably have a better experience on Fedora's KDE spin.
@carlwgeorge Thanks for the solid take. I've wanted to use a RHEL enterprise system for a while and gave CentOS a good go a while back, but I just can't do Gnome really, it's not bad but I just love KDE so much more. I daily drove Fedora KDE for a couple years back in the F20-23 days and loved it! May give it another shot! The short update cycle really was a problem though and I even had to reinstall from scratch do to a failed update between version numbers. I'm sure it's gotten better though!
@carlwgeorge SOLD!!! I'm switching back!! I've wanted to go back to Fedora for a while! Thank you Carl!
@micahbp @carlwgeorge Welcome back home. 
@micahbp Oh yes drastically. I believe those releases used fedup, an appropriately named tool. Now we have the dnf system-upgrade plugin, which works way better. It even supports skipping releases so you can migrate versions once a year instead of twice a year.
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/