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

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date 2025-07-04 23:12 +0000
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On 04 Jul 2025 21:12:17 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:

> I don't know when you installed it for the first time, so I can't speak
> about it. But When I installed it for the first time in 1995, there was
> only slackware available for me and it was way more difficult than
> today.
> Even a distro like archlinux, which is claim to be difficult to install,
> is very easy compared with the issues I had at the time. I had no
> Internet help, only lot of HOWTO and README files.

iirc, the first step with Slackware was downloading and burning a slew of 
diskettes, 40 odd iirc if you wanted a development environment with gcc 
and the buildtools.

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Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2025-07-04 21:12 +0000
  Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-07-04 23:12 +0000
    Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> - 2025-07-05 18:35 +0200

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