Last April, we reported on a proposal to make the KDE edition of Fedora the main version. At the time, we said it seemed unlikely such a significant change would happen, since Fedora is, for many, the most GNOME-centric operating system available. But now we've learned that Fedora KDE will be promoted and will leave behind its time as a spin-off.
A Fedora spin is, simply put, a version that isn't fully official. As such, it's offered on a less accessible page, and we shouldn't expect the same level of direct support from the project. With the arrival of Fedora 42, there will be two main editions : the standard one with the GNOME desktop and the new Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition. Although the name is a bit long, the important part is the last word: Edition.
Fedora KDE on par with Fedora Workstation (GNOME)
The proposal, which has already been accepted, is available at this link . It explains that, as discussed in Flock, the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop spin has been promoted to an Edition for Fedora Linux 42. This includes placing Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop Edition at the same level as Fedora Workstation Edition on fedoraproject.org. Furthermore, although not explicitly stated, it will receive direct support from the project.
It will be a historic change in a distribution that, although it is true that it has desktops other than GNOME, until now it has done so in those editions to which they do not give so much importance. More historic would have been what we were not betting on, which was the change of graphical environment.
Fedora 42 will arrive in April/May 2025 and will do so with GNOME 48 and Plasma around 6.4 in the main editions.