The Fedora leadership is elected the the community. Also most the community does not want to deal with KDE. KDE is great for power users and people who like customization. Outside of that most people want stability and simplicity both of which KDE is not.
The other issue is the installer and the enterprise. If Fedora switched to KDE by default then the downstream distros would need to as well as Fedora is the testing ground for RHEL, Rocky and Alma. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to run KDE on a server or corporate workstation.
The Fedora leadership is elected the the community.
“The Fedora Council is composed of a mix of representatives from different areas of the project, named roles appointed by Red Hat, and a variable number of seats connected to medium-term project goals.” –https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/
Also most the community does not want to deal with KDE.
Too bad we can’t know this for sure because the discussion and a vote was shut down. The leader was clearly afraid of the possible outcome. No need to “drop the mic” if it was actually so clear cut.
Outside of that most people want stability and simplicity both of which KDE is not.
Baseless claims.
The other issue is the installer and the enterprise. If Fedora switched to KDE by default then the downstream distros would need to as well as Fedora is the testing ground for RHEL, Rocky and Alma.
Wrong. Fedora switched to btrfs as well despite the fact that it’s unsupported by RHEL. Outside the RH sphere of influence, openSUSE manages to offer Plasma equally next to Gnome even though Gnome is default in SLE.
I can’t imagine anyone wanting to run KDE on a server or corporate workstation.
While I generally agree that there’s probably not much appetite among the distributions for switching default, this point seems weird. I don’t see why KDE would be any less desired than Gnome in that segment.
The Fedora leadership is elected the the community. Also most the community does not want to deal with KDE. KDE is great for power users and people who like customization. Outside of that most people want stability and simplicity both of which KDE is not.
The other issue is the installer and the enterprise. If Fedora switched to KDE by default then the downstream distros would need to as well as Fedora is the testing ground for RHEL, Rocky and Alma. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to run KDE on a server or corporate workstation.
“The Fedora Council is composed of a mix of representatives from different areas of the project, named roles appointed by Red Hat, and a variable number of seats connected to medium-term project goals.” –https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/council/
Too bad we can’t know this for sure because the discussion and a vote was shut down. The leader was clearly afraid of the possible outcome. No need to “drop the mic” if it was actually so clear cut.
Baseless claims.
Wrong. Fedora switched to btrfs as well despite the fact that it’s unsupported by RHEL. Outside the RH sphere of influence, openSUSE manages to offer Plasma equally next to Gnome even though Gnome is default in SLE.
While I generally agree that there’s probably not much appetite among the distributions for switching default, this point seems weird. I don’t see why KDE would be any less desired than Gnome in that segment.
Customization is usually the enemy of reliability and supportability
KDE Plasma 6 on Kinoite is actually really stable now for me. Some issues at the beginning, but their refactoring really made sensw.