Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation

I use both and I enjoy the simplicity of Gnome recently and some of the polish, but the constant decisions and weird stuff from Gnome as developers and as an organization send me running every time.

Almost anything you want to do in Gnome touches a spec or design that someone made there and has some obscure thing that kills it entirely for practical use but they won't change their spec or designs foe bizarre and nearly political reasons.

It's their project and they are free to do what they want. But, contrast this with my time as a KDE developer or user and it's night and day. The KDE people want to get everything done by any means possible and we will clean it up to get it shippable. We have moved entire code bases and specs to do it. Ever since Valve got involved that aspect only improved IMO.

My bet has been on KDE for a bit now, even if it's not my current daily driver.

That is great news! I moved to KDE about a year ago and was blown away by how refined and customizable the experience is. Won’t be moving away from Void but I’m glad to see KDE having more mainstream access and support!

I was in Burger King this week and was pleased to see that their drink dispenser machine was running KDE. Presumably due to some technical issue the taskbar was visible with some entry for their custom touchscreen sugar water emitting application. I wonder if they'll switch to using Silverblue now and get a more reliable setup.

This is a true testament to the maturity and popularity of the Plasma desktop. Congrats to the KDE community! Plasma is an awesome desktop environment and really serves a great purpose!

- A Fedora Workstation user

Awesome! I much prefer KDE over GNOME and with all recent enhancements to Plasma this is a very welcome change (short of KDE being the default).

Interestingly, I've tried KDE multiple times on different devices & each time there's a Wifi issue that's not present in any other linux desktop. Even the steam deck's default steamos has this issue in desktop mode.

I suspect it's something related to my wireless router, but non-KDE desktops work perfectly fine so I'm mildly confused.

I got into *nix around 2005. BSD and Ubuntu, I was an Ubuntu dabbler for more than a decade. I actually liked unity.

But recently I installed Fedora 40 KDE and it is fantastic. The UI is powerful but quite navigable. Features are fleshed out and accessible. Laptop and Wi-Fi features are top notch.

Claude.ai helped me figure out SELinux and Fedora design details that are nice to know as a power user. I'm all in on fedora at the moment.

Glad to see KDE get better positioning! The Fedora project generally does good work, very hopeful

I tried kde many times in the past and gave up. It finally seems to be getting a polished look however.

The one thorn left in my side is the context menu in konsole. Can anyone explain why it is such a mess and/or how I could edit it down to something manageable?

Libadwaita is a horrible design language. It wastes so much space, the disparity between gtk3/4 hurts the eyes and you pretty much depend on extensions for the most basic of things.

KDE is the superior DE by far

KDE is like 100x better than Gnome. This is great.

AFAICT there are no technical implications for this action, so nothing changed, really.

Slightly tangent - how reliable is Kubuntu nowadays, compared to vanilla Ubuntu?

I hope they know what they're doing. New users are already confused which to pick and KDE shouldn't draw resources from Workstation.