Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros • The Register (www.theregister.com)

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[+] adam_y@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 35 points 2 years ago

Variety is good to a point. Too many alternatives and all you get is a bunch of under-resourced and unpolished results.

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

You think there is a dearth of software engineers out there who can't spend time on something cool like a linux distro?

[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

Well, yeah. Its pretty well established that there is fairly limited resources in open source. Loads of software engineers, very few contributors.

[-] mindlesscrollyparrot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe because of projects that aren't interested in the opinions of distro maintainers, let alone individual contributors.

[-] MadhuGururajan@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

We can try to lower the barrier of entry. But nowadays open source maintainers have to actually limit controbutions due to a significant increase in supply chain attacks and generally untrustworthy code contributions.

[-] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 2 years ago

I tend to agree. I like being able to install whatever distro I want and add the DE of my choice, and there is a glut of different combos to choose from.

However, are KDE and Gnome going to gradually focus on making their respective DEs work on their own branded OS, rather than any old base system? I know that's a worst case scenario, but putting a lot of added effort into a full OS is a nontrivial investment for a desktop environment. Some mission drift might be expected.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I'm all for it.

Both the Plasma and Gnome teams have visions for how systems should be when using their DE, but sometimes existing distros don't go along with that.

I think it'll be interesting to see how a Plasma or Gnome distro pans out.

And if I don't like it, there's nothing stopping me from simply continuing to use Fedora, or running something else.

[-] johsny@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I thought that is what KDE neon is? Didn’t read the article though.

[-] somedev@aussie.zone 7 points 2 years ago

Yes, as is Gnome OS

[-] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Isn't Neon just Kubuntu with "updated bleeding-edge" KDE?

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

It's worked for cinnamon

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Oh, good more distro fragmentation that’s exactly what the community needs.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I think immutability gaining steam made this a good time for this, normally i'm against distros for the sake of distros, but the kde one is going to be an immutable arch based distro and i think we really needed a good kde immutable arch based distro, and I think it'll be great for the masses too!

don't know anything about the gnome one, probably will also be good.

[-] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

As long as the main line kernel remains independent, they can have at it.

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

Kool, that's Great

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