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Isn't Red Hat the official Gnome distro since forever? Ubuntu then resist the changes, try their own thing, to finally have to give up and use whatever Red Hat
by Shorel 2y ago
Isn't Red Hat the official Gnome distro since forever?
Ubuntu then resist the changes, try their own thing, to finally have to give up and use whatever Red Hat is selling. Currently they are not giving up with snaps, everything else comes from Red Hat/Gnome land.
The point is, we already have some kind of official Gnome distro. May be the Gnome guys are disagreeing with Red Hat, or, as it appears to be from the article, they want to play with some new technology.
For KDE, we used to have Suse and Mandrake. Mandrake was forced to change the name to Mandriva Linux, and now it has disappeared.
The current KDE based distros have a tiny market share compared to the other distros.
They should focus on why, and I would believe the commercial nature of QT is one important reason.
It doesn't matter if there's an official KDE distro, if people doesn't use it.
- ChocolateGod 2y ago> Isn't Red Hat the official Gnome distro since forever? You mean Fedora? It was considered the "unofficial GNOME OS" for a while, the maintainers of GNOME Shell, Mutter etc were also the maintainers of the packages of Fedora. Fedora Silverblue uses OSTree, which originally got birthed out of very early versions of 'GNOME OS'. But it was never official, Fedora didn't even ship with Flathub for the longest time and IMHO Fedora has become hostile to casual desktop users.
- anthk 2y agoAdapting Flathub and purging the Fedora channel at Fedora Silverblue it's just a matter of seconds.
- Shorel 2y ago> You mean Fedora? It was considered the "unofficial GNOME OS" for a while, the maintainers of GNOME Shell, Mutter etc were also the maintainers of the packages of Fedora. Yes.
- ahartmetz 2y ago>commercial nature of QT That "reason" has been obsolete for decades. It's written "Qt", everything you need for a Linux desktop is LGPL, and it gets regular outside contributions. I get the discomfort, but if the Qt Company ceased operations tomorrow, Qt would only stagnate... kinda like Gtk already does.
- alecsm 2y agoQT may be an important reason, yes, but I don't think it would change much with lets say GTK. Nobody wants to deal with the madness you find in KDE. I think most people like a configurable desktop but with sane and solid defaults. That's why Gnome is preferred. And I don't think it's gonna change anytime soon. KDE has a very opinionated userbase, which is not bad, but it also has its downsides. I'd like to change a couple things in my Gnome desktop that I can't but I rather have it this way than deal with KDE.