That seems like a good niche to exist indeed and many people would probably misunderstand its purpose by it being called a “KDE distribution”. It would perhaps have been better if it were created by some independent group for this purpose and just happened to settle upon KDE as its interface, or rather offer multiple choices to be honest.

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DoctorOW 3 days ago | parent [-]

I disagree, KDE needs both a distro and a niche for that distro to fill:

> KDE is a huge producer of software. It's awkward for us to not have our own method of distributing it

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Blikkentrekker 3 days ago | parent [-]

No, KDE does not need its own distro, that's the issue. They don't need their own method to distribute it which benefits no one.

The idea of a distribution for this specific purpose is best left in the hands of some organization with experience with this specific purpose, not KDE whose experience is developing desktop environments.

How exactly is it “awkward” for them and how exactly does distributing this in any way improve the development process of KDE? They can't even dogfood it obviously.

	▲	DoctorOW 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Plasma[1] is a desktop environment made by KDE, who also makes lots of other software. They make stuff like Dolphin (file manager), Konsole (terminal emulator), and Partition Manager as OS basics already[2]. [1]: https://kde.org/plasma-desktop [2]: https://apps.kde.org/