Nate’s blog has been really encouraging people to submit bug reports. So I think the goal of Neon is to have the bleeding edge KDE with a stable base, to rule out confounding factors as much as possible. I don’t think it’s a bait-and-switch since the product hasn’t changed. They’d probably just really rather it be used for people willing to submit bug reports.

Yep, definitely what we already knew. I’m surprised to hear it’s the default on the Slimbooks actually; that sounds like exactly what they were trying to avoid with the way they pitched Neon.

I agree on Neon being great, I love KDE’s pace of updates. I read Nate’s blog every week religiously. I’m spoiled to the AUR these days, though. Just for that I can’t go back to non-arch based distro. Been rocking Manjaro and have the least headaches out of anything I’ve tried.

It seems the hesitancy was fear it might be considered the de facto way to install KDE.

It’s been clarified to be primarily for testing due to it’s bleeding-edgeness.

I hope the contributors are anonymous…