Path: csiph.com!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: 10 Jun 2025 17:59:37 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <101v37k$fehm$1@solani.org> <101v64f$23ad$1@news1.tnib.de> <1025c24$5aur$4@dont-email.me> <1025tfv$hh32$1@news1.tnib.de> <1027oc0$ptre$9@dont-email.me> <1028gik$n6nk$1@news1.tnib.de> <102920k$oc7t$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BDT6rmDzjDs4AB1kexhUuw8ZAzjUBYHrMFWqcIaYNEaPDO+zoN Cancel-Lock: sha1:PXjCE4Wm1wgvsUycPSmmHyjHlwA= sha256:9MjIdrKb0uMK+ggQQWIE8Nk+Ekywl+mxmbwwfzVqrzM= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:68642 On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:39:16 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > The "spins" came with Ubuntu, and even on a normal Ubuntu I'd expect KDE > Plasma to show up in the login menu after an "apt install kde-standard". > I still think that a "spin" of a Distribution either originates with a > sick marketing idea of with incompetence. I don't know who originated the term but I associate spins with Fedora. Ubuntu has Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, and so forth. When I installed Lubuntu I went to https://lubuntu.me/ otoh https://fedoraproject.org/ has editions and spins. KDE Plasma is now an edition offered alongside Workstation, which is GNOME. When I installed it it was still a spin like LXDE or LXQt. I don't have a problem with that packaging.