Andreas Croci composed on 2024-05-18 09:11 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote
The tradition amongst most distros for decades was to keep tty[1-6] available for text login sessions, and start the GUI DM on tty7, with any additional X sessions going to tty8, next tty9. The Gnome/GDM/systemd people several years ago decided this was no longer necessary, and moved GDM to tty1 (or tty2, I'm not sure which, as I never again installed GDM after the first time). The KDE devs played monkey see, monkey do on this. Neither group considered there to be any relevant disruption possible by this break in tradition. I have regular uses for tty1, tty2 & tty3, so no room for their intrusion into my workspaces.
Just FWIW: on my freshly installed (three or four days ago) OpenSUSE LEAP 15.5 with default settings (Plasma 5), tty1-tty6 are free and whatever graphical stuff is running takes on tty7, like the good old tradition 😉.
Another tradition - openSUSE does not always blindly accept upstream blunders. e.g. it shielded its users from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=757142. I'm not directly aware of any other distro that did that, but I suspect Slackware may have, and possibly others. I tried Neon last year in order to see how KDE6 was shaping up. I could not find a way to get SDDM off VT1, or use a different DM. The only other distros where I've had Plasma installed are Mageia and Fedora. They switched to VT1 in due course. IIRC, some TW & Leap installations here stayed with tradition, while others didn't. Which did which I've not tried to track. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata