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submitted 7 months ago by woelkchen to c/linuxmemes

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I was wondering what happened to the proposal from a month ago....

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[–] stuner 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I understood Matthew's position as "this should be discussed in the Workstation WG first", not as a "no":

in favor of the process outlined above (tl;dr: talk to the Workstation WG, and if that does not come to a satisfying outcome, file a Council ticket for next possibilities).

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It also seemed more likely that they would promote KDE without demoting Gnome.

But was there a follow-up on that (e.g. in the Workstation WG)?

[–] woelkchen 13 points 7 months ago (11 children)

I understood Matthew’s position as “this should be discussed in the Workstation WG first”, not as a “no”

And later he said it's not up to the community but the Fedora Council which at least partially consists of unelected Red Hat-appointed people and all decisions need to be on a consensus-basis, so a single corporate-appointed person can veto everything. FESCO (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee) is democratic, Fedora Council is not.

[–] stuner 5 points 7 months ago

I'm not sure I follow... Did the Fedora Council actually take a decision?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (4 children)

To be fair, there is and has been a KDE spin. I can see an argument for gnome, as it's overall the simpler environment. Simple defaults has been fedoras thing for a long time.

[–] woelkchen 35 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can see an argument for gnome, as it’s overall the simpler environment. Simple defaults has been fedoras thing for a long time.

They could make that argument then and not just close the topic by declaring it a trademark issue.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fedora is recognized as the Gnome distro, though. It really is a branding issue.

[–] woelkchen 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Fedora is recognized as the Gnome distro, though.

Things could change. That why it was brought up for debate. The debate could have concluded that changing defaults is not the right move.

It really is a branding issue.

And what would be the trademark(!) issue? The default desktop edition is called "Fedora Workstation", not "Fedora Gnome", so the branding is not tied to Gnome in any way. Seems more like an attempt to kill a discussion where the popular vote might be undesirable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m giving them the benefit of the doubt in that they misspoke when saying trademark. Clearly it’s not that, but those nuances are not universally known.

And branding is not something up to popular vote. It’s, by definition, an image someone or some organization wants to project to the public. To them, they have spins for other DEs/WMs and that’s enough. And why wouldn’t it be?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The vote likely would of favored gnome. Fedora is enterprise oriented and focuses on being a new version of the stable enterprise. KDE changes very quickly and they do not fix bugs before introducing new features.

If anything the alternative would be xfce4 but that's not viable for other reasons.

[–] woelkchen 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The vote likely would of favored gnome.

No need to kill it then. Obviously the Red Hat representative got cold feet.

Fedora is enterprise oriented and focuses on being a new version of the stable enterprise.

Fedora describes itself as a community-led distribution, not as a corporate beta test for RHEL: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The enterprise is part community. Rocky is part of the community.

[–] woelkchen 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Rocky is part of the community.

Rocky Linux is part of the Fedora community? WTF?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What WTF? They are part of the community

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (6 children)

I don't understand the simpler argument. Installing and using extensions and gnome-tweaks to change basic settings is not simpler. And I strongly dislike a large number of defaults.

With KDE Plasma, defaults make more sense to me so I barely have to change configuration. If I really need to, the setting is there and easily used.

[–] ikidd 13 points 7 months ago

Since KDE changed to dbl-click by default, the only thing I change is Numlock on boot. 10 seconds to fix, and I know it'll stay changed because KDE is allergic to removing user settings.

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[–] puppy 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Simple defaults has been fedoras thing for a long time.

So has been KDE's for a long time now. Even more so in Plasma 6.

[–] Rustmilian 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

"Simple by default, powerful when needed" - KDE

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Isnt fedora like the last distro that doesnt symlink /bin and /sbin to /usr/bin?

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[–] ikidd 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Look, we knew Fedora wasn't going to drop Gnome. Gnome is almost entirely a Redhat project, it's there for the paying corporate market so it doesn't confuse the drones by offering "choices", and Fedora is the proving ground of any changes that might affect said drones. I can't even argue with the logic.

Lots of Plasma-Fedora distros out there, like the spin and Nobara/bazzite that frankly are better starting places for most power users anyway, since you don't have to get around the repo/codec issues yourself.

[–] woelkchen 17 points 7 months ago

Look, we knew Fedora wasn’t going to drop Gnome. Gnome is almost entirely a Redhat project, it’s there for the paying corporate market so it doesn’t confuse the drones by offering “choices”, and Fedora is the proving ground of any changes that might affect said drones. I can’t even argue with the logic.

The project leader could just be honest about that instead of making BS up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention Fedora KDE from the Fedora project

[–] ikidd 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yah, that's what I meant by "the spin". Can't say I've used it recently, and I imagine it has the same lack of non-free repos as the parent, so the others are less trouble and work fine. Heck, Nobara's had V6 included for a few weeks now.

[–] jj4211 3 points 7 months ago

When I installed F39, it at least promoted and made opting into the most reasonable nonfree repositories. So at least recently they've gotten a bit more practical on that situation.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (10 children)

I used to use Gnome all the time but I have to install a bunch of extensions for it to be usable. This one addon, I think it was called window list, is the most important and invaluable one of them all. There is no way I can use Gnome without it and I don't understand how other people have the patience to deal with not having that. The number of times I updated Gnome and found out window list was so out of date the only way I could get it working was if I download the source code and fix the issue myself, is too damn high. That addon should be part of Gnome by default.

Now I use cinnamon or kde depending on which one works better in that respective distro's repository. Some installations of your favorite desktop environment come with better configs than others. For example last time I tried KDE on Ubuntu, it was a broken buggy annoying mess to the point it was was less functional than Windows 11's ui. On Arch, KDE is the epitome optimization and polish. On Arch, cinnamon is respectably borked out of the box. Cinnamon on Ubuntu usually only comes with a few bugs however I rarely end up finding a way to fix said bugs.

LXDE is the same across distros usually but I only use it if running Linux on an absolute potato. That lack of a start menu search is awful, I don't miss those pre-search bar era uis. I need a search bar dammit.

[–] herrvogel 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

On Arch, KDE is the epitome optimization and polish.

Cannot relate. At all.

Last friday I re-installed Arch with KDE this time instead of GNOME for a change, and in these two and a half days I've already encountered more bugs and crashes than I did the entire time I was on GNOME. Kinda regretting the decision already. All that with stock applets and widgets and shit that come bundled with the DE. I don't want to imagine what things would be like if I started to mess around with third party stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Idk man, EndeavourOS on KDE has been amazing to me, even on Wayland. Even the plasma 5 to 6 upgrade has been ridiculously smooth. I have a feeling arch may not be the most unified distro to judge a DE on... Hope stuff stabilizes for you a bit. That's no fun. :(

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

I'm glad Fedora comes with the most usable no-bs/out-of-the-way (in my subjective experience) DE by default. Yes I do run it with Tweaks and a few extensions, but otherwise I have no need for extensive customization for customization’s sake (which seems so many ppls problem with GNOME, smth that I couldn't find more irrelevant), since everything about its UI/UX is so intuitive. I understand if people don't like its opinionated workflow, but it's just right for me personally...

I don't get the proposal either way bc Fedora has always been the spearhead of vanilla GNOME and there is an official KDE spin iirc

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don't really get what people mean when describing Gnome or any DE as "out of the way". I've never felt like KDE was "in my way".

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

I really couldn't find a better way to describe how it feels to use gnome. I am used almost all tiling window managers through the years. I always got lost in configuring my setup. I know I didn't have to, but there was almost another step of optimization that was available to me. This is not a bad thing in and of itself, of course. I have been using gnome o arch for the past few years, a plank/dock extension, a system tray, and a clipboard manager. That's it, there is nothing to fiddle with, to distract me. It is entirely personal. I just can't stop myself from trying to optimize my desktop/workflow if there are still ways to optimize it. Before gnome I was using my WM/DE and then the applications necessary for my actual work. Now, the DE is "out of the way" and I just do what I actually have to do. But again, this is entirely personal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

This is very similar to my experience tho I have skipped most of my ricing/customization phase with Gnome bc I just didn't feel the need to do much about it bar a few extensions

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[–] AnUnusualRelic 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Or you can run OpenSuSE which comes with one of the best Kde versions by default.

It's another enterprise type distribution that's rock solid. It also has a rolling version.

1lso it's based in Europe, which some see as a plus.

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

What proposal?

[–] synapse1278 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To make KDE Plasma the new default Desktop environment for future Fedora Workstation releases in place of Gnome.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This one https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I'm glad Fedora has GNOME as default. The KDE spin appears to be well-maintained enough for those interested to enjoy it.

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

Fedora atomic with kde (kionite) has been amazing on my laptop so far (recently moved from mint)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Use Bazzite or Aurora if you want an amazing, Fedora Silverblue/Universal Blue-based KDE experience, it's much better than normal Fedora anyway

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

How does Bazzite differ from Kinoite? I use the latter but have been hearing about the former for a while now, and was curious what exactly sets it apart from what I use and what benefits I'd have switching to it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Gaming.

if you game on Linux you wanna go with bazzite, games "just work" on there without any tweaking or fixing or patching. And in the rare case you do need to patch a game like gmod, they have a built in script for it like ujust fix-gmod

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

By default it uses KDE instead of GNOME, you have the choice though. It makes some stuff easier for new users. Bazzite is also optimized for gaming and in some areas tries to mimic the Steam Deck experience pretty closely. It also includes all the Universal Blue goodness like ujust (basically a collection of scripts that is very helpful for quickly installing and setting up various things on your system). It also includes some quality-of-life improvements in the Terminal. You could compare it to Nobara, but built on top of Fedora Atomic (Kinoite). Check out their website for more information: https://bazzite.gg/

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