For as long as KDE's Plasma desktop has existed, it has lived as a guest in other people's houses—shaped by Fedora's choices, Kubuntu's compromises, SteamOS's priorities. Now, for the first time, KDE has built its own house: KDE Linux, an immutable distribution designed to show the world what Plasma looks like when no one else is making the decisions. Still in early testing and entering a crowded field, it raises the oldest question in open-source idealism—whether authorial purity is a gift to users, or simply another door in an already overwhelming corridor.