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It's not being a weirdo to love KDE. It's an excellent desktop and I'm surprised more distros don't have it as default.
by Santosh83 9y ago
It's not being a weirdo to love KDE. It's an excellent desktop and I'm surprised more distros don't have it as default.
- krylon 9y agoopenSUSE gravitates towards KDE, I think. Back in the day (no clue what the situation is like these days), SuSE employed a bunch of KDE developers. (Although the openSUSE installer offer the choice between KDE and GNOME. And Xfce, I think.)
- mcsofake 9y agoAFAIK, SUSE doesn't employ any KDE developers but they do donate to KDE e.V.
- pjmlp 9y agoBesides SuSE, one of the best KDE friendly distributions was Mandrake, which had the goals of targeting Pentium and desktop users, but they eventually went under. Also KDE suffered from Qt licensing and C++ use, which many GNU/Linux users weren't found of. The license issue was eventually sorted out, but the C vs C++ arguments still carry on I would say.
- Santosh83 9y agoSure, those are not trivial issues from a developer perspective, but distributions mainly aim to expand their user base among ordinary users, and from a user perspective KDE is great and it remains mildly inexplicable that it's not the default among more distributions. PS. Mandrake was my 2nd Linux distro ever, back in its heyday almost 2 decades back. Still remember Drakeconf with fondness!