In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/10/25/kde-linux-deep-dive-package-management-is-amazing-which-is-why-we-dont-include-it/comment-page-1/#comment-40613">river</a>. I don't think KDE Linux is going to kill off Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Fedora, Gentoo, etc. The idea is to provide a more vertically integrated product for those who want that. There's demand from OEMs and institutions who like what KDE is doing, and a need with KDE neon fading out...
Forgive me for asking the obvious question but what's the end goal here for KDE Linux? Be a general purpose Linux distribution of KDE/Plasma flavor in opposition to Gnome one? If these are the plans for both projects then what will happen to other distributions? Will we'll be slowly heading towards some bipolar homogenization of Linux world? For quite some time I'm having this weird feeling that Gnome tries to appeal to business world by hands of people within the project who willingly or not are pushing all this simplified approach to the interface. People in various places online are also pointing out that this community acts in a really hostile way towards ordinary users and feedback they're giving. So again, what's your plans? Be another flavor people could pick from or something bigger?...
<!-- wp:quote --> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I 100% recommend <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/kde/" rel="nofollow ugc">Fedora KDE</a> to anyone who wants a good experience with a GUI-focused package-based operating system.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --></blockquote> <!-- /wp:quote --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Fedora KDE is really great, but it's not without packaging issues. There has been the attempt to upgrade protobuf for now two years, but it got again postponed to F44. [1]</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Protobuf is a dependency for many other packages, that means, those packages are older than on Debian. For an incomplete list, please see the discussion link. Fortunately some apps can be replaced by Flatpaks, but not all. Let's cross our fingers, that this issue finally gets resolved in the next release.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>[1] <a href="https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-protobuf-5-x-6-x-system-wide/140620" rel="nofollow ugc">https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f44-change-proposal-protobuf-5-x-6-x-system-wide/140620</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On Plasma 6.5, I'm forced to install Flatpak, even though I don't use it. This is not amazing at all.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...