The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager.

Over the past year KDE developers have been developing the Plasma Login Manager as a modern alternative to SDDM and looking at GNOME’s GDM as the “gold standard” for log-in/display managers.