Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

From	Rich <rich@example.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date	2025-07-28 21:26 +0000
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-07-06, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 5 Jul 2025 09:45:37 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> Not in the name of freedom, in the name of it being a huge amount of
>>> bloatware that achieved almost nothing of value and caused everyone else
>>> to have to rewrite their packages to conform to it.
>>
>> Nobody forces anybody to use systemd. Like anything in Open Source, it’s a 
>> matter of choice.
>>
>> systemd Myth number 19: systemd forces you to do something.
> 
> These two paragraphs are about different things, even. The first is
> about systemd being *forced*, the other is about systemd *forcing*.
> 
> Please try not to make these shifts, so that this sort of topic can be
> discussed more objectively.
> 
>> <https://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html>

Lawrence is our local systemd evangelical.  He has fully consumed the 
systemd Kool-Aid and so it is just best to ignore his whinings about 
"how great and wonderful systemd really is, if only you would repent 
your sins and take up systemd as your one true startup binary".

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Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2025-07-28 21:26 +0000

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