"All of the distro's components (bar one, which we'll come back to) come from the standard Debian repositories. As shipped, RefreshOS does not support Flatpak or Snap packages, and this restriction applies system-wide. You get some FOSS favorites such as LibreOffice (7.4.7) and GIMP (2.10.34). However, many of them do not come from the KDE project. In fact, we don't think we've ever seen a KDE-based distro that used so many non-KDE components in its default installation."
"We're very aware that Debian 12 is now borderline ancient. Hardware compatibility issues have been our biggest challenge, and addressing this is our main focus for RefreshOS 3. That release will be built on top of Debian 13 stable and will introduce our own repositories alongside Debian's, allowing us to offer newer software without compromising stability."
"RefreshOS 2.5 is a Debian-based distro using the KDE desktop - but very little of KDE apart from the desktop itself. This version is based on Debian 12, so, fully updated, it's effectively Debian 12.11. This also means that it's still based on KDE Plasma 5 - specifically, 5.27.5, the stock version for Debian "Bookworm.""
RefreshOS 2.5 is built on Debian 12 (effectively Debian 12.11) and uses KDE Plasma 5.27.5 for the desktop. Earlier versions used Kubuntu, but RefreshOS switched to Debian for this release and intends RefreshOS 3 to be built on Debian 13 with its own repositories to provide newer packages while preserving stability. Nearly all components come from standard Debian repositories. The distribution does not support Flatpak or Snap system-wide. Default applications include LibreOffice 7.4.7 and GIMP 2.10.34, and many utilities are non-KDE choices such as Nemo, LXTerm, Pluma, Xfburn, and Deepin apps, while key KDE apps like KMail and System Settings remain.
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