Path: csiph.com!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: 9 Jun 2025 18:00:31 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <1025jut$alt7$9@dont-email.me> <1026lm6$hj96$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 7Dxio5gbSklrH7Gvrd2w9QvpOkmNXBmUHt9uuCNsweR2764sLh Cancel-Lock: sha1:a2x9u1j1R/HxTrE/tAbMohLj63c= sha256:vyzNfgJeXEu7/qNlNjZvviOosx92sHHjpcZaZu65DsE= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68596 On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 08:56:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > The $BASE where I worked for awhile allowed Linux (with some basic > support), > so I installed Debian on my laptop workstations. But after awhile they > demanded Red Hat; but CentOS was acceptable, so that's what I used. > It was fine. (Fluxbox as the window manager, of course.) IT where I worked tried their best to ignore Linux so there was no policy, except maybe not using distros like RHEL that cost money. Since we all had to build and run the software it pointed out some of the little distro quirks. Moving from AIX was an interesting exercise too. AIX was extremely lenient about NULL accesses. While it was never good technique defining variable in header files got a pass for years. Then whatever gcc shipped with Debian Bullseye got snotty about multiple definitions.