Both KDE and GNOME To Offer Official Distros

king*jojo writes: 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.”