On Thursday 13 April 2017 17:23:30 Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote:
Hello, most Linux distributions are using GNOME by default, including:
Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu starting with v18.04, RHEL and most of it's derivatives, and even SUSE Linux enterprise; so why openSUSE is using KDE by default?
SUSE used to invest quite a bit in KDE and was using it as the default desktop for many years. When the default was switched away from the KDE desktop in openSUSE during the times after the acquisition by Novell, there was a the most top voted feature request ever to switch back to the KDE desktop as default. So the answer to your question is, because openSUSE's users prefer KDE as default.
GNOME is more stable, has better support for Wayland and is extremely beautiful.
Is not GNOME more secure than KDE even?
These kind of blanket statements are rarely true. It depends how you look at
it, and you will always find bugs, security issues, or ugliness, if you look
for it. That's why there is choice and you can select the desktop you prefer.
openSUSE has quite some variety there.
Our KDE packagers do a heroic and wonderful job of providing the KDE software
for openSUSE, although there is much less support from SUSE than there has
been in the past, but from my point of view they do an excellent job with it,
and my KDE desktop runs stable and beautifully here. This is the power of
community.
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Cornelius Schumacher