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Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 (theregister.co.uk)
An anonymous reader shares a report: This week, the Linux distro biz emitted Fedora 29 and RHEL 7.6, and in the latter's changelog the following appears, which a Reg reader kindly just alerted us to: "KDE Plasma Workspaces (KDE), which has been provided as an alternative to the default GNOME desktop environment has been deprecated. A future major release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux will no longer support using KDE instead of the default GNOME desktop environment." In other words, if you're using RHEL on the desktop, at some point KDE will not be supported. As our tipster remarked: "Red Hat has never exactly been a massive supporter of KDE, but at least they shipped it and supported you using it."
Or was it decided before that?
If anything IBM will try to replace Gnome with CDE. Now that can sell support contracts.
Nah, it'll be replaced with OS/2' "Workplace Shell", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
You dumped RedHat for Mandrake because 20 years later RedHat would announce plans to deprecate KDE over the next four years?
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.