Fedora Workstation with GNOME is the main edition of the Fedora Linux distribution, but their Fedora KDE Desktop Spin just got approval to become a lot more important.

As noted on their issue tracker, a proposal titled “Request to upgrade Fedora KDE Desktop Spin to Edition status under the Personal Systems WG” has now been approved! From the proposal:

“As discussed at Flock, the Fedora KDE SIG and the newly forming Fedora Personal Systems Working Group that will oversee the SIG are requesting that the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop spin be upgraded to Edition status for Fedora Linux 42.

This includes the following:

• Listing Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition at the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition on fedoraproject.org
• Production of a flagship site page for Fedora KDE similar to Fedora Workstation on fedoraproject.org
• Marketing support in a similar vein to Workstation at events

The Fedora KDE SIG will withdraw its Change for Fedora Linux 42 to replace GNOME with KDE Plasma on Workstation with the acceptance of this request.”

It was opened 2 months ago, and was formally approved about 16 hours ago.

Now the work begins for the KDE maintainers at Fedora to get it all ready, and sometime soon hopefully it will then be prominently listed on the Fedora website.

Pictured – Fedora KDE

As someone who mains KDE Plasma as their desktop environment, because I think it’s fantastic, I’m really happy to see this happen.