My view is that the KDE versions prior to Plasma will be blown away.   KDE will remain.

My second view is that for the desktop, it no longer is a distribution competition, as all distributions I see  are providing the same kernel levels, and the same level of GNOME or KDE.

Gnome and KDE have made the distribution provider an unimportance.  Where it may become important is with the rapidity of support and peer groups.

I see four winners -- Ubuntu, SUSE/Tumbleweed, RedHat/Fedora, and the others.  Eventually, some group is going to produce a KDE/GNOME distribution, similar to linuxMint and it will be most popular.  Furthermore, containers, flatpacks, etc. will be ubiquitous so that you visit some repository and choose the ones you want for your needs. They will be universal, to all distributions.

Today I currently log into my Tumbleweed distribution as a KDE user, or use the gear wheel to log in as a Gnome user.  I am a desktop user of Gnome and KDE.

With Fedora (on my 4th and 5th cpu Disks, I can do KDE but not Gnome on one but not both.  Gear wheel functionality does not work

Note. Fedora and Tumbleweed and Ubuntu are provided only to support the respective server vendors.



Regards

 Leslie
Leslie Satenstein
Montréal Québec, Canada



On Friday, November 2, 2018, 10:16:41 p.m. EDT, Temlakos <temlakos@gmail.com> wrote:


Everyone:

The Register carried this article:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/02/rhel_deprecates_kde/

saying that Red Hat now deprecates KDE in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux distribution.

The article mentions the recent release of Fedora 29, but says not a word about whether Fedora will deprecate KDE as well.

I switched to KDE for a reason. GNOME simply did not show me how to switch users, or do any of the things that, on MS Windows, are practically intuitive. And I understand the reason for it. GNOME mimics MacOS, while KDE mimics Windows.

I believe that GNOME has come to dominate for one reason only: those who develop distributions, like GNOME and dislike KDE. There's just something about KDE that, while it is user-friendly, is not developer-friendly--at least, not to the developers of operating systems. (Developers of applications might have a different story to tell.)

I suggest to this community that we have arrived at a crisis. In six years, according to The Register, Red Hat Enterprise Linux will not support a KDE installation or maintenance.

What are the maintainers of KDE going to do about this?

Will Fedora's maintainers do the same thing that RHEL maintainers have announced their intention to do?

Temlakos

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