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Fedora proposal to change default desktop to KDE (fedoraproject.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (6 children)

That is not a great idea. KDE prioritizes features and customization over stability and out of the box experience.

The spin is there for those who want it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

Exactly. While I love Plasma for what it is, I also don't love certain things like lack of polish, stability etc. Again no offense. Fedora Workstation aims to be a stable OS with sensible defaults for wider audience including home users, disabled people and developers who want to get things done rather than tweaking their OS. GNOME may not have great customizability as Plasma but it is stable and well polished for average user.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

10 years ago, my workplace forced me to use Gnome 3 (was horrible) and Wayland (was horrific then).

Since I changed my job, I've mostly used macOS for GUIs because PTSD.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

KDE rules, not surprised more and more and moving its way

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Have you guys tried windows?

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

GNOME is grared toward dev people who need something almost as minimal as a wm. KDE is better suited for average users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm a developer and I've strongly preferred KDE over Gnome for many years. I find the lack of features and customization in Gnome extremely irritating.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Gnome Shell through extensions is very customizable but the two problems are that those extensions can break on Gnome updates and Gnome applications usually don't offer that. I used Gnome + non-Gnome apps for quite some time years ago because I wanted to use Wayland as early as possible.

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