Red Hat does not have a popular/good workstation never did much for KDE... no big deal
When I think of Red Hat, I don't think of Desktop nor Workstation. Ubuntu comes to mind for a better Desktop/Workstation experience.
Red Hat never did too much for the Desktop community in general outside of funding the GNOME project. Red Hat is a great Server distribution, and that's their focus and bread and butter. From a business perspective, it makes sense to focus only one Desktop Environment and that should probably have been KDE right from the beginning. The Windows world would be more familiar with it, the KDE community is huge, responsive and talented. KDE has produced a high-level experience with very little funding compared to GNOME.
My ideal scenarios for an enterprise would be:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for the Servers
- KDE Suse Linux for Workstations
- Managed by Katello (the Open Source version of Red Hat Satellite)
- Integrated with FreeIPA (the Open Source version of Red Hat Identity Management)
I'd like to see other Enterprise distros (OpenSuse and Ubuntu) step up their KDE game!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
