Originally posted by Alexmitter
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There's SUSE. They ship KDE. I'd put them in the respectable category. Aside from Red Hat and Fedora, where GNOME is from, nearly every distribution ships GNOME with plugins because (for 95% of us) the default workflow just sucks if you need a multitasking workstation desktop. The rest created their own desktop environments because they don't care for neither GNOME nor KDE.
I installed Plasma and have tested it for the past 7 or 8 years now. I came to the conclusion that GNOME 3 isn't a good desktop until I add enough plugins and those same plugins eventually break when my rolling release distribution, Arch, updates leaving me with a functional, fully working, desktop 3 months out of the year. The rest of the time I'm waiting on plugin writers to play catch up.
Funny how the place that basically funds Linux creates a desktop that doesn't have a stable ABI or API for plugins...the kernel equivalent to drivers...that's one hell of a coincidence...
I suppose by "licensing issues" you mean the CLA which a lot of open source projects have these days -- it allows a project to not end up like the Linux kernel where you have to track down 2500 people and have them all agree to a license change. In that regard GPL in and of itself can be seen as a "licensing issue".
Here's the real question: Can I buy the cheapo model and slap in my own storage? The cheapo and a 1tb nvme is cheaper than the premium....
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