Nobara 39 Officially Released
Nobara 39 Officially Released
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)
Interesting to read those linked GNOME issue threads, they're really living up to their reputation... Looks like KDE is becoming the premier gaming DE, and I'm pretty happy with that.
I'm a GNOME developer, and KDE is unfortunately the gaming and colour accurate work desktop at the moment.
Kinda wish the GNOME committee would pull its head out of its ass.
I switched from GNOME to KDE half a year ago precisely because GNOME merge requests for important features constantly end up in limbo for years. KDE announcing initial HDR support for next year was just the final nail in the coffin.
Also appindicators still do not work out of the box in GNOME while it is an essential feature for many applications.
Reading the reasons why they switched to KDE is making me rethink why I'm using gnome
Cool, I've wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome. I'll have to give it another look.
Cool, I’ve wanted to give this a go for a while but never really gelled with Gnome.
Even before the switch of the default was Plasma already an option. It just wasn't the default.
Fair enough. I find if it's the default option, it's a better out-of-the-box experience as the devs would have spent more time on polishing etc.
Fingers crossed the Wayland bug is gone and I can move to Wayland.
Nice that they changed to KDE
Dang. Guess I'll be switching to Ublue Bazzite.
Literally just install GNOME
As I understand it, that's not even needed because the current DE choice is being preserved at an upgrade. The only thing that needs manual tweaking is reinstalling the extensions from the Gnome website which isn't really an issue at all.
there still is a gnome spin... it just isn't the default
Because of the switch to KDE from Gnome? Or something else I'm missing?
This is a shit-tier post. Why hide the relevant information that's 2 sentences long?
Relevant information:
Better integration with Steam. By default the Steam Deck uses KDE as the desktop mode. This inherently means it receives updates from Valve in terms of desktop related fixes, and they are actively working with KDE developers to bring updates to KDE (https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/t2184m/is_there_any_cooperation_with_valve_and_kde/)
I know reading is hard but you realize this quote was reason #5 of the many reasons listed... I'm not going to copy-paste the article, it's all relevant info.