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Red Hat is Planning To Deprecate KDE on RHEL By 2024 (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the up-next dept.

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."

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  1. Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu by Octorian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What's a shame here is that Fedora has actually done a much better job at packaging a polished and functional KDE desktop than Ubuntu ever did. That's part of the reason that I've stuck with Fedora on my home desktop, after getting fed up with OpenSUSE many years ago.

    1. Re:Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Slackware does KDE better than anybody. In fact they do everything better than anybody. There's no reason to even consider using anything else. And the entire thing installs in less than 10 minutes.

  2. Yeah by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because it works and isn't tied to systemd like Gnome. You can't make support money if everything works smoothly.

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  3. Red Hat's new desktop environment by gosand · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Red Hat is pleased to announce its new desktop environment... systemd

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  4. Re:Replaced with OS/2' "Workplace Shell" by ilsaloving · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nah, it'll be replaced with OS/2' "Workplace Shell", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]

    You know what? That would be bloody awesome. I *loved* workplace shell when it was around. It completely blew the crap out of Program Manager on Windows.

  5. Re:What is the state of KDE? by Aighearach · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That's perhaps the most absurd reason for changing OSes I've ever heard; "somebody random blamed a software bug in a free OS on having low class hardware."

    Lets just say, I do believe you that your computer was locking up, but I don't believe you that you know what caused it, or that it was the "IO scheduler."