Hasn’t Suse been KDE by default since… as long as I can remember? Debian defaults to GNOME but it lets you pick the DE in the installer IIRC (haven’t installed Debian in a long time since I just use it for servers). Last I heard, Fedora is making KDE an official supported DE. You’re also leaving out other popular user-centric distros like Mint which don’t use either DE (toolkit it GTK but the UX paradigms makes it so just about any toolkit means that it’ll look & feel right on Cinnamon).
Suse has had Gnome as the only supported DE for 5ish years now. They don't even support KDE at all. Talking Suse as in the commercial distros. OpenSuse has choice of DEs like most.
Gotcha. So you really meant enterprise only. Not a tongue in cheek answer (which I thought was a way of just grouping all suse-related distros). To me, that’s not the context for a user oriented product. Any reasonable person looking at a developer tool and listening to that pitch isn’t thinking pure enterprise. So I think that’s not a good interpretation of what I find disagreeable with calling a GTK4-only app “Linux native.”
Also, I thought opensuse (or whatever new name they’re using) was KDE default but with a choice (like Debian)? At least that’s what DE I got last time distro hopped to it. Which is why I don’t consider either as an example of why GNOME would be the “de-facto standard.”
It means what people actually develop, support and use in the real world. KDE has no real support. Suse, Red Hat/IBM and Canonical all develop and support Gnome which is largely what has made it so polished.
Also, I'd wager Gnome is absolutely used by 90% or more of Linux users.
> Also, I thought opensuse (or whatever new name they’re using) was KDE default but with a choice (like Debian)? At least that’s what DE I got last time distro hopped to it.
Depends "which" openSuse. OpenSuse Leap is going away since Suse (the corporation) is doing away with non-immutable distros. Whether it keeps KDE remains to be seen as MicroOS has lots of issues with KDE. Tumbleweed has KDE as the first choice still, but it's basically hobbyist-only from this point since there's no equivalent Suse distro. Aeon is Gnome-only.
