it probably does, but it isnt considered a 'real' distro since it isnt suitable for non-development use (nor is it meant to be). its a very common misconception about KDE neon to think that since it's the KDE branded one it must be the best general-purpose KDE distro.

thats why they are making KDE Linux. KDE Linux is going to be what a lot of people mistakenly take neon to be while also fulfilling the role of 'development standard implementation/example implementation for distros to reference' much better.

Did you look this up?

What do you think is more likely - that KDE Neon does not have a testing version of Plasma Login Manager or that a sensationalistic news headline is not giving you a 100% accurate and complete understanding?

I have the same multiple monitor issue. I have an ultrawide on display port, and a smaller monitor on hdmi. Boot messages default to the ultrawide but the login prompt also defaults to the secondary display. Minor thing I know, but irritating.

The lock screen and display manager are two separate pieces of software. The display manager runs before a user profile has been selected for graphical login, so it does not have access to your user desktop/display settings

I've definitely noticed #2 and #3, very annoying! They should both show the same text input (not a straight display clone since they might be different resolutions/ratios)

On a side note, I've noticed some Linux installers don't handle multiple screens well or high resolutions. I think Calamares is a big offender here, it doesn't clone to every display so I end up stuck trying to use my sideways monitor. Or on a 4k screen everything is tiny for no reason, it should just default zoom on high resolution.

I much prefer the installers that are just a regular window on a normal desktop, where you can move it, maximize it, easily access the DPI settings and other system settings, browse the internet while it's installing...

SDDM does lock screen? But that's a screen locker's job. In this case, you can likely disable it in some ssdm.conf and use any alternative locker instead (also note the List_of_applications/Security#Screen_lockers there).

has a long pause when going from login screen to desktop

Yea I have noticed this. It takes a long time to switch back as well when you lock the computer, logout, switch users, etc

The first one I think is a fundamental limitation in that display preferences by default is per-user. Maybe this makes it work for you? https://feddit.online/post/1350756/comment/6636228

The 24h clock might be similar - check your system-wide locale.

It supports 24h clocks all right and always has (I’ve used Plasma with SDDM for years and never have had issues with the clock!), but as you said in a different thread, it may have problems in separating the common locale from the time format.

And yet, Fedora changing their default login manager won't affect Arch.

Right, but since it isn’t based on Fedora, which this post is about, what Fedora is doing has no bearing on what CachyOS uses as its defaults.

Could just mean that it will apply plasma's theme

I'm still not sure I understand why you can't start the RDP and VPN daemons via systemd or other init?

Yeah I'm not a huge fan of rolling updates, just seems more likely for things to break.

Kubuntu has been pretty good for me, but I think Fedora generally has much newer packages even though it isn't rolling. It might be a good compromise for me. Or maybe Manjaro.

in-place upgrades are fine for just about any contemporary, mainstream Linux distro. You may find this experience to be more robust than on windows.

I believe you can also upgrade via separate installation media, but you won't find yourself needing to.

I upgraded from 42 to 43 through discover. I think that and terminal are the recommended methods, according to the docs. If you do it with ISO it writes over the root partition and keeps all other partitions and volumes.