CDE, GNOME and KDE Desktops
CDE stands for Unix Common Desktop Environment.
It was proprietary.
GNOME the Goblet was created by two German students to make GNU free of proprietary stuff.
It was called GTK or Gnome Tool Kit.
KDE was proprietary with Qt tool kit.
Qt is now transitioning from Qt5 to Qt6.
It transitioned to Free Software much later.
It did not branch from GNOME.
K originally stood for Kool and this meaning was dropped to become neutral K without any distinct relative or origin.
GNOME was resistant to change.
It is actually a Development Platform with Runtime Environment for Global Developer Community.
Free to modify but a copy has to be left for the Common Goal or for the community to built on.
It is not like tinkering in KDE.
Crash car can be rebuilt to look like brand new. KDE effort is similar.
No substance beneath.
Except for MATE everybody neglected Trinity Desktop Tool Kit.
Not only Pop OS or Tuxedo which are proprietary, there are many more beautiful KDE desktops.
BlueStar Linux tops the list and it is my favourite.
I have 3 copies on, of which one is the Developer Edition.
I used Netrunner which accommodated Synaptic Package Manager.
It is still in 16.1.13+ 13 kernel.
Whereas, Debian Forky, 17.1.13+ 14 is the kernel. One generation or kernel behind.
Then there was Neptune.
It has a new version in 2026.
I am currently installing it.
It failed to overwrite XiVa Linux/Big Linux GRUB.
However, Netrunner RECOVERED it.
Thank you.
Neptune has some cool features.
I am not going to ADD GNOME 50 and spoil the soup for old KDE.
I am trying to install Netrunner which is like Manjaro cannot read my 40 partitions .
It finally did.
It is still in Plasma 5 version.
These KDE unlike GNOME guys are very SLOW to change and adopt New Trends.
This may be a reason I gave up KDE for good and remained with GNOME which is Stable, Rock Solid and Secure.
No need to reinvent the wheel to accommodate disillusioned Microsoft Dropouts.
ZORIN of Ireland started the rot trying to become Windows Look a Like.
I have 40 partitions.
One is for EFI.
3 for SWAPS.
36 remaining and I can accommodate a few KDE Desktops
KDE is adopted by many distributions.
KDE Neon User
KaOS
MX Linux
Russian ROSA
PCLinuxOS was one of my old favourites.
I found another KDE distribution called Vailux from Denmark.
It is a big image with lot of applications.
It failed to install in a 15GB /Root partition where Netrunner was installed.
Netrunner also FROZE without space to install AbiWord and Audacity.
I am Installing Netrunner again one 1 kernel behind the Debian Forky.
I am Installing it to bring back some nostalgia.
Netrunner installation went OK.
Having installed my basic stuff I have 5GB left out of 15GB.
If one wants a pleasant but light weight distribution with KDE Desktop, I have no hesitation of recommending it.
I have used it liberally in the past.
I am going to keep it.
I added the boot partition to the root having seen Vailux freezing on me.
Now there are 39 partition in total in a serial order.
I got all three Debian GNOME working fine.
BlueStar has 3 instances including Development Edition running fine but others are failing to mount since I had the audacity to format the EFI BootLoader.
Installation of Netrunner is going on slowly.
No report on Terminal.
No display of graphics information.
I have 8GB RAM.
Altogether 12 instances to be added in total of 500GB AT5000325AS hard disk.
Memory failing it is ST9500325AS.
I got one letter and one number wrong.
Not bad in short term memory.
I still cannot figure out why I BOOTED Out KDE.
It is 3AM.
As suggested by AI, I embark on new features only after a good night sleep.
