I personally don’t see the Fedora team breaking away from Gnome just yet, but he makes some good points.
Starting in 2025, KDE Plasma’s release cycle switches to a semi-annual cadence that lines up with Fedora Linux releases, enabling a tight interlock of development and integration between Fedora and KDE.
This is the key change that might make such a move viable, imo. The benefit of Gnome to point release distros, and Fedora in particular, is the predictable 6-month release cycle.
You have my vote. The out of the box experience would be polished and I have no doubt would be done very well.
I will happily use any desktop environment that allows me to bring up a summary of all active windows by pressing the super key. That’s just too ingrained in me now. I even find myself mindlessly doing it on Windows.
You’ll need to configure Plasma to do that, as the default is to bring-up the launcher. The overview effect is alf-tab iirc.
Kde has you covered. MOD + w by default and you can switch it in settings to MOD only.
You can even have hot corner like gnome does.
Dang, I finally started liking gnome over kde because of fedora
you could just use the gnome fedora spin, this is just about making it not the default.
What about upgrades, are they going to switch everyone to KDE?
No you’d just find that your fedora says gnome edition or whatever
KDE rules, not surprised more and more and moving its way
The reason this is feasible now, is that KDE is changing the release cycle for Plasma, Frameworks, and the Apps to all be aligned with the sometime-before-the-distro-release 6-month cycle, that allows for a release of everything KDE to be taken, tested properly, and released with the 6-month release cycle for Ubuntu, Fedora and other distros following that release cycle. Until recently, we would have the releases of these components all separate throughout the year, meaning that it would be harder for the distros to package, test and ship Plasma as a flagship desktop because of stability concerns (also because of bugs).
Now, with Plasma 6 being all about making Plasma better and more stable, especially in the Wayland department, I’d say Plasma is superior to GNOME in every way (except funding). At this point, it’s not too unrealistic to see distros consider the switch to Plasma, including major distros like Fedora, as seen here. I really think this is the best time to consider using Plasma over GNOME.
Gnome is nice and minimalist. It’d be nice tto have built in extension by default to keep the dock always visible without having to activate it in top left corner (very unergonomic considering that the dock is at the bottom). It’s unacceptable that you have to install a plugin to keep it on, as a beginner user I didn’t even know to install extension manager and what extension to support. KDE on the other hand is too busy and complicated for new users.
You just install the extension manager or use a web browser. It probably could use more documentation but I also understand that gnome is cautious about user generated content
Yeah, but how will a beginner user know to install extension manager? I didn’t. There’s no prompt to install it.
For newcomers it just seems like a very basic ui with no configuration options whatsoever. Very frustrating.
KDE looks basically like a Windows 10 desktop by default tho. That makes it easy for most people to get into it
i think that’s the reason steam deck chose KDE as the default UI
It can also be used very simply though. It works out of the box with any changes necessary. The issue I find with gnome is that its simplicity quickly became a bottleneck for me. E.g. Konsole is just so great and I couldn’t live without it anymore
I’d be against this, despite using Plasma on one of my systems and having an overall positive view of the project. Although admittedly I do slightly prefer Gnome because consistency is something I’m really anal about, so there’s bias here.
Gnome just feels a lot more stable and consistent. It works well, has a good release cadence (although KDE is making steps to improve theirs), and most people who use Fedora are happy with it.
Critically, Gnome has good accessibility features, and they’re improving rapidly at the moment. I think good accessibility features are imperative for a workstation distro.
I’ve also never really heard any Fedora Plasma Spin users quality of Fedora’s work, or it being called a “Spin” instead of workstation. It’s already treated with pretty much the same level of care as Gnome is, so what would this achieve, other than months of bickering and a bit of confusion?
Given that Fedora is a distro that aims to be on the frontier of new features and technologies, the inclusion of KDE seems like a much better fit than Gnome.
Yes please
Unfortunate date to publish a proposal on…
I’d love to use my proc to fry my breakfast
Wat
Kde is hotttttt
Have you guys tried windows?
Have you?
sadly.
If this is real, this is actually a good idea. Even things like multi monitor management work a lot better on KDE imho
Late April fools joke?
Don’t think so as they asked for “Workstation KDE” and “Workstation GNOME” > Issue tagged with: changes, f42 I think Fedora was doing a lot of work on KDE anyways.
God no.
