I have used unstable versions of software before. I used the Minetest daily branch and the Minecraft snapshots. Usually they are considered not production-ready, but I never had issues with any but a few of them.
I like KDE neon because of its release structure. I want a stable system, but I also want the latest apps. I want everything I see to be updated. Neon is a start.
I just installed the developer-unstable edition of KDE neon because it has some very nice features that, if another desktop was able to implement them well, I would use. It fixes one of the more annoying bugs in Discover(apps being listed twice). I plan to use the Developer Edition until bugs get really annoying, in which case I still have a neon User partition that I can use while I wait for a fix.
Only had a few minor issues:
1. Why is it version 5.9.90 rather than 5.10-pre or git?
2. It's slower than neon user, but not so slow that I can't use it.
3. Calamares is missing some features.
4. I thought Plasma for Wayland would be there by default, but apparently not.

But other than that, I really love KDE 5.10 and the corresponding neon release. Most of all I like the spring-loading feature in Folder View. Yay, a KDE release with a killer feature in it! Also, lots of annoying bugs are actually fixed in neon Developer. I will be reporting bugs to KDE developers whenever I find them.
Until then, cheers.

For Wayland: https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/ ... -kde-neon/

If you want to help development with bug reports: https://bugs.kde.org/

Thank you!

I'd like to help too, how to migrate user to dev?

Hey Ivan,
Crossed my mind to install Developer Stable. Wonder whether it's suitable for a daily driver. I wouldn't install Developer Unstable though. Ultimately, terms like alpha, beta, RC and so forth are relative. I recall I had Dev Stable installed some months ago and it seemed stable and fresh to me. I'm also quitting these discussions about stability cause I might end up with my head unstable. Whatever works to whomever.

Eneen wrote:I'd like to help too, how to migrate user to dev?

You can change the repo it queries for updates in your apt config.

My /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neon.list looks like this:

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deb http://archive.neon.kde.org/dev/unstable xenial main
deb-src http://archive.neon.kde.org/dev/unstable xenial main


If you want the dev stable build instead replace "unstable" with "stable" in the code above.