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>The author seems to think that someone should tell all these volunteers to focus their efforts somewhere Gnome and KDE are in a pretty workable state because

>The author seems to think that someone should tell all these volunteers to focus their efforts somewhere Gnome and KDE are in a pretty workable state because a lion's share of the support comes from Red Hat, Suse and Canonical (and to a lesser extent from Valve or QA people from other distributions like Arch), who are probably not going to fund another distro. In particular a lot of the core dev salaries come from those companies. It'd be on a shoestring budget and team which in the Linux world usually ends in disaster, in particular if you're talking about building an entire distro.

ChocolateGod 2y ago
> Gnome and KDE are in a pretty workable state because a lion's share of the support comes from Red Hat, Suse and Canonical I think's now Red Hat and Endless. Other than the odd patch, I don't think there's much from either Canonical or SUSE.
Y_Y 2y ago
It was my impression that code and money for Gnome primarily came from Red Hat, but also Canonical and Suse. I didn't think it was the case for KDE, and at least in their latest report they seem to be more Bernie Sanders in their income breakdown[0]. As for code contributions I don't know but I'd be pleased if a more knowledgeable reader could give us a clearer picture. [0] https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2023/#welcome-to-kdes-annual-report-2023 https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2023/#welcome-to-kdes-annual-r...
- pjmlp 2y ago
  For a long time SuSE and Mandrake were the KDE distributions, and some of the money came from there. This was 20 years ago, dunno about nowadays.
  - Y_Y 2y ago
    That's a fond memory. I still see (with my rose-tinted glasses) KDE 3.4 on SuSE 10 and as the best desktop environment I ever used. That was in 2006 which I can't imagine is anything close to twenty years ago. Example: https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/10e1447e-d287-49ca-9786-91b04403eab4/djwmfa-ec6452c3-1c66-4aeb-a4ae-a8181a67f405.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_800,q_70,strp/screenie_by_cheftw_djwmfa-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTAyNCIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzEwZTE0NDdlLWQyODctNDljYS05Nzg2LTkxYjA0NDAzZWFiNFwvZGp3bWZhLWVjNjQ1MmMzLTFjNjYtNGFlYi1hNGFlLWE4MTgxYTY3ZjQwNS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.G2WW3hEhQQ5uQCHF5EpdKAxvd_1f2wXsNF5zI503j0g https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/10...

ChocolateGod 2y ago

> Gnome and KDE are in a pretty workable state because a lion's share of the support comes from Red Hat, Suse and Canonical I think's now Red Hat and Endless. Other than the odd patch, I don't think there's much from either Canonical or SUSE.

Y_Y 2y ago

It was my impression that code and money for Gnome primarily came from Red Hat, but also Canonical and Suse. I didn't think it was the case for KDE, and at least in their latest report they seem to be more Bernie Sanders in their income breakdown[0]. As for code contributions I don't know but I'd be pleased if a more knowledgeable reader could give us a clearer picture. [0] https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2023/#welcome-to-kdes-annual-report-2023 https://ev.kde.org/reports/ev-2023/#welcome-to-kdes-annual-r...

pjmlp 2y ago
For a long time SuSE and Mandrake were the KDE distributions, and some of the money came from there. This was 20 years ago, dunno about nowadays.
- Y_Y 2y ago
  That's a fond memory. I still see (with my rose-tinted glasses) KDE 3.4 on SuSE 10 and as the best desktop environment I ever used. That was in 2006 which I can't imagine is anything close to twenty years ago. Example: https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/10e1447e-d287-49ca-9786-91b04403eab4/djwmfa-ec6452c3-1c66-4aeb-a4ae-a8181a67f405.jpg/v1/fill/w_1000,h_800,q_70,strp/screenie_by_cheftw_djwmfa-pre.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOjdlMGQxODg5ODIyNjQzNzNhNWYwZDQxNWVhMGQyNmUwIiwiaXNzIjoidXJuOmFwcDo3ZTBkMTg4OTgyMjY0MzczYTVmMGQ0MTVlYTBkMjZlMCIsIm9iaiI6W1t7ImhlaWdodCI6Ijw9MTAyNCIsInBhdGgiOiJcL2ZcLzEwZTE0NDdlLWQyODctNDljYS05Nzg2LTkxYjA0NDAzZWFiNFwvZGp3bWZhLWVjNjQ1MmMzLTFjNjYtNGFlYi1hNGFlLWE4MTgxYTY3ZjQwNS5qcGciLCJ3aWR0aCI6Ijw9MTI4MCJ9XV0sImF1ZCI6WyJ1cm46c2VydmljZTppbWFnZS5vcGVyYXRpb25zIl19.G2WW3hEhQQ5uQCHF5EpdKAxvd_1f2wXsNF5zI503j0g https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/10...