RHEL is deprecating KDE

Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by facorreia on Friday November 02, 2018 @07:59PM (#18367724)

That's one of the reasons that I use Linux Mint. It's Gnome-based, but with a curated UX, and being stable for 2 years means that I can just do my work without this kind of nasty surprises.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by ce4 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:02AM (#18369463)

Has Mint improved sec-wise?

I remember that they used to "achieve" stability by not updating (apt pinning) important packages like kernel, xorg etc and did strange stuff like copying deb packages from ubuntu/debian verbatim into their repos.

Edit: I wouldnt touch Mint with a 10ft pole. Seems like they still have no sec advisaries, still ship a remix of debian/ubuntu packages and so on:

2013:

https://web.archive.org/web/20140214063150/https://lists.ubu...

2016:

https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by KozmoNau7 on Saturday November 03, 2018 @07:56AM (#18369794)

>"Has Mint improved sec-wise?"

Yes, markedly.

They basically follow the latest Ubuntu LTS closely, and I get the latest Firefox etc. a couple of days after the official release.

I'm still considering KDE Neon, but that's mostly a personal preference for KDE.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by KozmoNau7 on Monday November 05, 2018 @04:45PM (#18386264)

I've now been running KDE Neon on my laptop (X220) for a little while, and I highly recommend trying it out. It's literally Ubuntu LTS with an almost rolling-release KDE repo, and a bit of extra polish here and there.

It has been even more "it just works" than Mint, which is already stupendously easy to install.

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Re:RHEL is deprecating KDE by csdreamer7 on Friday November 02, 2018 @08:54PM (#18367989)

I truly do love Cinnamon and I recommend anyone to give it a try.

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