KDE Plasma is a powerful desktop environment that gives you tons of customisation over how your system looks and feels. However, you need to pair it with the right base distro to get the perfect user experience. To help you make your pick, here are five awesome distros running KDE Plasma.
Apart from my initial start on Linux with Ubuntu, I’ve actually consistently been using KDE as my desktop on Linux. I’ve just always loved all its look and feel customisations. Many Linux distros will offer a choice of desktops (just the presentation layer on top). Linux is not like Windows where there is just “one” desktop that Microsoft provides. It may appear that Linux is all different between the different distros, but it is really not so.
So, you can actually take any Linux distro, even that does not have KDE, and just install the KDE desktop on top of it, and then switch between desktops at login (many don’t recommend you do this though as some settings could clash — but it is quite possible).
But if you are a new user, it is always best to start out rather with one of these distros that natively supports KDE with their installation. It is the cleaner and more stable way to do it.
See https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-distros-that-use-plasma-as-default-desktop