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Clarify what neon is and who it's for

First some facts:

  1. KDE neon is in fact a distro. It has an ISO you install on your system. Slimbook ships it on hardware. It's a distro.
  2. Despite this, KDE neon is not intended to anger distro partners by being the KDE distro; rather is is a different take on being a KDE distro.
  3. KDE neon is fully rolling for KDE software, exactly following KDE's release schedule with no additional release delays for QA like most other distros will do (even Arch!). This has consequences for stability.

The FAQ page currently dances around these facts and talks about neon in a somewhat cagey way. I don't think we're fooling anyone "in the know", but there is a lot of evidence that we're fooling users who lack the context to read between the lines--as evidenced by the rocky rollout of Plasma 6 on Neon that resulted in a lot of people being publicly and vocally surprised by stability issues who really shouldn't have been.

I think we need to stop dancing around the truth and just say what we mean regarding what neon is and who it's for. This commit does that.

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