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| From | rbowman <bowman@montana.com> |
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| Subject | De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now |
| Date | 11 Nov 2025 04:28:44 GMT |
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theregister.com/2025/11/10/deduplicating_the_desktops/ He makes a valid point. Not only do most of the DEs follow the Windows 95 setup many people get confused between a distro and a DE. https://fedoraproject.org/spins KDE in't listed because it has been promoted to first class status next to the default GNOME3. Fedora XFCE looks like my Debian XFCE box, and Fedora LXQt looks like the Lubuntu laptop before I put Mint Linux MATE on it. Both the Fedora box and the EndeavourOS laptop have KDE and look the same. I can start a Sway session in both and guess what? i3 and Sway are very similar and most config files can be interchanged but i3 is Xorg and Sway is Wayland. There are some in the list I'm not familiar with. i3 and Sway are tiling managers like very early Windows before MS figured out stacking so are in there own class, as are the GNOME3 offerings. Variety is nice and all but I think it scares the hell out of Windows users. The question keeps coming up 'What distro should I use?" Well..., are you doing anything for the next hour? Or, taking the other path, 'Linux Mint Cinnamon!'
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De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-11 04:28 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-11 10:55 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-11 19:14 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-11-11 11:47 -0800
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-11-11 23:32 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 04:03 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-11 23:22 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-11-11 11:35 -0800
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 04:23 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-12 00:58 +0000
Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-12 03:52 +0000
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