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

      You are years behind. Qt is under GPL / LGPL licenses.

    3. Re:Fedora did KDE better than Ubuntu by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Informative

      Try KDE neon. It's Ubuntu LTS + rolling releases of the latest stable versions of the KDE packages straight from the KDE project itself.

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  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. Context by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think some context is required for the article.

    1. RHEL is mostly used in server environments. Desktops usually aren't a focus for RHEL users.

    2. Support for KDE Plasma is being removed. That doesn't mean you can't install KDE, just that it's not supported. If something breaks you're on your own.

    3. There were some other major removals or depreciations which the article mostly skips over. Python 2 is going away in favour of Python 3. Btrfs is being dropped entirely. A lot of driver support is being trimmed for future releases.

  5. Re:What is the state of KDE? by Per+Wigren · · Score: 5, Interesting

    KDE users don't fork KDE because we have enough configuration knobs to tweak to make it look and behave so close to what we want that we don't feel the need to fork it. The configuration minimalism of some other desktop environments drives people to fork them over minor disagreements.

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