Technology Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros

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KDE and GNOME have decided that because they're not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What's the worst that could happen?

A talk from this year's KDE conference, Akademy 2024, looks like it's going to become real. The talk, by KDE developer Harald Sitter, was entitled An Operating System of Our Own, and the idea sounds simple enough: Sitter proposed an official KDE Linux distribution. Now the proposal is gathering steam and a plan is coming together for an official KDE Linux – codenamed "Project Banana."

It's important to note at this point that there already is an official showcase KDE distro, which is called KDE Neon. Neon comprises the latest version of the KDE Plasma desktop, pre-installed on top of a recent LTS version of Ubuntu.
Not to be left out, a developer from the GNOME project, Adrian Vovk, has a corresponding proposal: to take GNOME OS mainstream. In his modest title, to build A Desktop for All:

I would like to turn GNOME OS, GNOME's home-grown distro for testing and development of the GNOME Desktop, into a daily-drivable general purpose OS.

GNOME OS is an existing distribution, but with a very different purpose to KDE Neon. While the purpose of Neon is as a technology demonstrator, in its current form, GNOME OS is more of a technology testbed.

Its title of "Nightly" is a clue here: GNOME OS is rebuilt daily, in line with the principles of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. The recommended way to run GNOME OS is in a VM using GNOME Boxes, but in principle it can also be installed on bare metal – so long as it uses UEFI and doesn't need any additional drivers.
 

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