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On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:45:28 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:

> SUSE, the enterprise version, only ships Gnome. They consider that the
> paying enterprise clients prefer gnome. And have been doing this for
> many years. The KDE offering comes from the community instead.

Okay. I haven't been keeping up on SUSE things and thought they had went 
to GNOME across the board. I was happy to see the KDE and Xfce options in 
the installer.

Way back when I went to SuSE because of KDE and yast. Maybe the people 
using SLED have different tastes.