Used Workstation since 41, but switched to KDE 42 today… 
Questions, comments, concerns, or 
warnings…? 
UPDATE - went back to Workstation… 
I’m running Fedora KDE for 2+ years already. Initially for around 6 months I used Kinoite(immutable)) variant but that turned out to be too tough for a newcomer to linux (at a time), due to differences in paths; and since then have been using classic Fedora KDE 44 (rawhide development branch). I really enjoy it.
Initially (2023-2024) there were was some instability and hiccups, but during the last year Fedora became so polished that it runs really great and smooth.
As to KDE, I personally love it’s high information density (everything uses screen estate really well); that virtually ANYTHING is easily customizable, and also that it constantly receives new great features - like auto-tiling (with meta + arrows), etc, which are usually really really useful. They keep adding new little touches that are subtle but are so nice and convenient… I guess this should have been the primary Fedora distro, not the Gnome one.
As to concerns, perhaps the only one: Discover 
It’s good for discovering and installing apps, but not for updating them. I run dnf update && dnf upgrade daily but a lot of updates remain pending in Discover. It used to be WAY SLOOOOW, now it still just “quite slow”, does not show you detailed progress or ETA (a vague progress bar is not enough in 2025), and sometimes some stubborn packages appear that block whole update process completely (now it’s a codec that can’t be downloaded from a Cisco repo with error 403) and it’s difficult to fix it.
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I usually check manually for updates every few hours - hope that will help… 
I’ve used KDE from the very start of my Linux journey back in Fedora 40 (It’s why I came to Fedora in the first place after all: Fedora has some of the most up-to-date KDE without being Bleeding Edge). I’ve loved every second of KDE, what with the customizability and how much it just works for me. I’ve ended up installing KDE Material You (and even contributing to it ;P) as well as Klassy to add that extra touch.
The default KDE apps broadly tend to be good (Kwrite seems like a rather great replacement for Notepad++, imo), but I would second the notion that Discover is just terrible for anything but discovering apps (and I guess handling when I need to double click to install an RPM for certain software). Overall, I’m very happy with Fedora KDE and KDE in general ^.^
(Instead of using discover, I just use dnf and flatpak in the terminal)
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Does it have session restore yet?: OOM kills Plasma 6?
Plasma 6.4.4 was pretty good though! Stable and no performance issues; I’d use it for eye-candy but prefer GNOME’s simplicity more 
(I reinstall a lot and don’t want to maintain a lot of likely cool settings done on KDE)
Same for me.
But for people who have used both Discover and GNOME Software - how much difference is there between them?
dnf update is an alias to dnf upgrade btw
Aside from GUI, not much really.
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You don’t need to check that often 
If you have automatic updates turned on in the app centre, it will update it automatically for you.
When I first came for Fedora it was because it had good support for KDE (it was F40), but after a while I decided to give GNOME a try and I’m stuck with it ever since then.
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Yes. If someone is trying to translate the idiom of apt update && apt upgrade to dnf, then it’s basically dnf --refresh upgrade or dnf --refresh update.
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I’m not sure –-refresh is necessary. Dnf is going to refresh repos automatically after a while.
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Still learning, but I have 16 GB RAM - so hopefully I won’t have to worry…
Me too… At first I was hesitant about the KDE Fedora but it started growing on Me when Fedora seemed to up it’s “status” alongside Workstation… 
I’m wondering what happens if the relationship sours later between Fedora and KDE… Then I would have to switch back to Workstation…
It is! And one would indeed be fine just dnf update -ing periodically.
I was just thinking that someone doing dnf update && dnf upgrade is trying to force an instant metadata update as well as actually updating packages, and if they want that, then --refresh gives them it.
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True masters of the Force use Windows Managers 
I went to Sway, as Gnome and KDE both have extra layers that ultimately rely on command line - so why not go straight to the source and understand what is going on under the hood?
Between Gnome and KDE, I prefer KDE for the easier access to options. Gnome feels like a cut-down buyOS.
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Nah - i3 Embrace the dark side.
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God forbid not exposing every setting to the user! /j
Btw, one thing I’m really curious about. I also used tiling compositors (both Sway and Qtile, but mostly Qtile) and GNOME is very similar to them. Both expose usable defaults (well, TWMs are obviously more bare but they still expose “necessary” things), so I don’t get why tiling WMs fans usually don’t like GNOME. It’s the same thing with people using vim/neovim or zsh with tons of plugins and then complaining that GNOME have extensions instead of implementing every feature under the sun.
Other than inherent elitism of command line Linux /j I would say, for me, it is the promise of a full desktop experience that then does not deliver. By that I mean things break and I have to go command line anyway. That’s just my experience, I don’t want to take away from your or other fans preferences. I certainly hope I’m not complaing about two free full featured fantastic desktops
One great thing about both Gnome and KDE are how they run so fast on older hardware. They have been optimised so well, I find they are faster than the other ‘light-weight’ desktops.
For a truly dismal OS experience, one has to go with buyOS - no I don’t want to do it their way with my credit card on overpriced hardware, or Windoze “buy a new computer coz we told you so”. And they are both “always online” if you know what I mean.
Update: ended up coming back to Workstation for various reasons…
Had some video screen weirdness - no big deal…
Had some weirdness with the NumLock - no big deal…
Saw lots of JournalD app and JournalCTL entries/errors that I did not like… They were probably nothing major but I did not see as many with Workstation…
Overall, KDE had some cool bells and whistles, but they were not necessary for Me…
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Just to be pedantic, there are now 2 Workstation editions, Gnome and KDE
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To be extra pedantic, KDE isn’t Workstation. It’s still KDE
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