KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default

KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE. For those installing KDE Linux for the first time, one of the improvements made in October is that KDE Linux's installer now has a basic slideshow. The KDE Linux installer slideshow is similar to the operating system installers for other Linux distributions. On the kernel side, KDE Linux now enables the NTSYNC kernel module by default. With NTSYNC by default it enhances the out-of-the-box experience and performance for those gaming on Linux via Wine/Proton. On the desktop side, wayland-protocols is added to the KDE Linux base image to broaden the OS support for some KDE projects depending upon it. KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone and is roughly 85% of the way there as of the start of November. The milestones page shows work still needing to be done on the swap support, improving the update experience within Discover, KDE infrastructure changes, improved dual booting experience, better handling Flatpak crashes, and other improvements. More details on these recent KDE Linux changes via the October 2026 report.