I dig kde plasma. It's what I use on all my linux boxes (work and personal). It's really polished and fully featured, and it has updates ship frequently.

Don't the updates depend on the distribution (at least in part) - basically, what updates they decide to make available and when? In many distros I've seen, it seems the software packages aren't always the latest versions.

Yes, how up to date most packages are do depend on the distro. That said, some package maintainers have package libraries you can point to in order
to get more up to date versions for your distro.

In the case of KDE, I don't know if that is the case or not.

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