one of the reasons i gave up on DEs and now run only a tiling WM setup on a releaseless distro were the weirdly subtle changes and/or bugs associated with new releases, often changing GNOME in some form or fashion. KDE may fare better here, i am not sure.
in effect i have what i think you want, which is a way to bootstrap a new desktop/laptop based on a script (read: from a flash drive with minimal setup). however it is not as clean as what i see Nix offers. but, i don't have to worry about some "release" completely goofying up my setup. so it is nicely stable and deterministic to that extent.
in effect i have what i think you want, which is a way to bootstrap a new desktop/laptop based on a script (read: from a flash drive with minimal setup). however it is not as clean as what i see Nix offers. but, i don't have to worry about some "release" completely goofying up my setup. so it is nicely stable and deterministic to that extent.