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A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

Posted May 8, 2024 16:30 UTC (Wed) by tau (subscriber, #79651)
Parent article: A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

I prefer GNOME but I suppose I could get used to KDE, since after all KDE is very customizable. Either way I strongly agree with the original "Fedora Workstation" branding change and I think that there should be one and only one "main" edition, whether that is a GNOME desktop or a KDE desktop. I use Fedora because it is an "opinionated" distribution that focuses on building a well-integrated and cohesive product. If you want a build-your-own distro construction kit then there are plenty of other alternatives in that ecological niche (Arch, Gentoo, Nix, Debian etc). Actually I use Fedora Silverblue because it goes even further in the direction of having a single canonical system image and separating out user-installable software down into various container technologies, but i digress. Fedora doesn't try to be all things to all people and I like that.

GNOME's architecture does seem to integrate more seamlessly with the surrounding operating system platform, since for all its faults GObject does interoperate nicely across different implementation languages in a way that C++ and MOC (does Qt still use this?) does not and never will; there is a hard border between KDE Frameworks and fd.o projects and systemd etc in a way that isn't there for GNOME technologies. Which I think is a point in favor of choosing GNOME as the user interface for a highly vertically integrated OS project, if that makes any sense. On the other hand GNOME's development team does have a rather, well, let's say tenacious commitment to a particular vision of how a user's workflow should operate, and that workflow works for some people but definitely does not work for others.

(incidentally I am reminded of this famous mailing list post, the question at hand today is more about user preferences than relative technical maturity but I think a lot of the earlier points still apply http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/ )


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A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

Posted May 9, 2024 0:40 UTC (Thu) by atai (subscriber, #10977) [Link]

>http://www.islinuxaboutchoice.com/

Talk about being opinionated.

(its opinion I agree with)

A proposal to switch Fedora Workstation's desktop

Posted May 9, 2024 16:01 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

"seamlessly with the surrounding operating system platform, since for all its faults GObject does interoperate nicely across different implementation languages in a way that C++ and MOC (does Qt still use this?) does not and never will"

This is nonsense. And I'm telling you this as the author of the first book about PyQt that was ever published, in 2002: https://valdyas.org/python/book.html -- that is, over twenty years ago.

Oh, wait, that was years and years before gobject.


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