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Aside from being based on Fedora 39 now, KDE is now the official desktop environment replacing GNOME. The reasons why are in the article.

The GNOME version of Nobara still exists, but it's going to be the vanilla version shipped without any extensions (probably because many of them broke after moving to Fedora 39)

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[–] jcrabapple@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

TIL not liking something is a hissy fit. Thank you for this educational comment.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

TIL not liking something is a hissy fit.

While I don't know the term hissy fit, switching distributions just because the default of a user-changeable setting is different is definitively a bit over the top.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

They still have a gnome ISO, but you're going to throw it out because it isnt the "official" version. That sounds like a hissy fit.

The non-official KDE previous version was fine, since the point of the distro is the backend optimizations for gaming and editing. Its not what DE leads point since you can add whatever Fedora has in the repos, which is pretty much everything.