Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-KDE-Desktop-Promoted

[Smurphy]

About time. Gnome is such a piece of cr*p ...
(getting pop-corn, ... wayting)

[Alexmitter]

Now well have a Gnome based "Workstation" and a KDE based "can't get any Work done on this buggy crap" edition

[You-]

I think this is a bad call.

Fedora doesn't have enough KDE contributors to push it as the same as gnome. Remember, one of the reasons X11 support is not on the KDE install by default is the argument that they had too few resources to offer both.

The Workstation product has quite substantial engineering effort behind it, including developers and designers who identify larger areas of work that may take multiple years to complete and then working on them in a way that has "drained the swamp" to fix major issues that no one even remembers any more because they were fixed properly instead of hacked around.

With KDE they are able to do some engineering, like they pushed for Wayland to be made the primary session upstream, but they will mostly be consumers of what upstream produces.

[dragon321]

About time. Gnome is such a piece of cr*p ...
(getting pop-corn, ... wayting)

Now well have a Gnome based "Workstation" and a KDE based "can't get any Work done on this buggy crap" edition

Can't you just enjoy more choice?

[infermity]

I have used both gnome and KDE fedora and found KDE to be a much nicer experience for me to work with. I also prefer the way it looks, especially with plasma 6s overhaul. I haven't really found any bugs since I've been using it for nearly 2 years, except for a Mesa bug for new AMD igpus (780m) that broke video playback for months on the 6.10 kernel release. That was more of a mesa issue and not KDEs fault though, but that experience still left me bitter with AMDs shitty support for their new hardware...

[hf_139]

I just hope RedHat stays with GNOME.
I don't need those disgusting NSA assets infecting other Desktop Environment.
Stay in your cell.

[hf_139]

I think this is a bad call.

Fedora doesn't have enough KDE contributors.

Fedora doesn't have any Gnome contributors.
But RedHat employs lots of Gnome maintainers.
This is a very important difference.

[anda_skoa]

With KDE they are able to do some engineering, like they pushed for Wayland to be made the primary session upstream, but they will mostly be consumers of what upstream produces.

I don't think there will be much difference.

Both GNOME and KDE use gitlab, have similar workflows for contributions and becoming established contributors.

Some of the Fedora developers might even already be KDE contributors the same way others are GNOME contributors.
Or even be an upstream contributor for both DE communities.

[mcirsta]

Choice is good and as long as I can use KDE and it works nicely with Fedora I don't care about Gnome. I think both desktops work reasonably well and it's a matter of choice.
On a personal note I just hate the look of GTK and Gnome and I like programming in Qt so that's that for me.