Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released Date: 10 Feb 2026 04:35:26 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <187f87f9767214b8$43779$4031116$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10habf6$15qla$1@dont-email.me> <10hbejb$n003$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net moOshsX94INIoaWxwMWsTA2e7cUjysETpCSAdK8J1ldTHUQqiW Cancel-Lock: sha1:VF4dRXHmTfeZ7m9VnhHBIQ6eHJg= sha256:PZVhkXRzp6juArcKqzP1aWcg1gP9ZC0HhmYPae+82/0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:707195 comp.os.linux.misc:81889 On Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:37:53 -0000 (UTC), Gremlin wrote: > I have no issues with CLI - I grew up on CLI based systems. That said, I > don't have a problem with DE either. I especially liked KDE for all the > eye candy. XFCE is okay, but it's not KDE. Dolphin is a much better file > manager than Thunar, imo. I've been living with Ubuntu for a couple of years. Not a match made in heaven but it at least has a taskbar, panel, dock, or whatever you want to call it. I was messing around with a VM on another machine and loaded openSUSE Leap 16 with GNOME. As we used to say, that sucks green donkey dicks. Delete VM, reinstall with the KDE DE. The host box is Fedora/KDE so they look pretty much the same. I briefly had Mint with Xfce. That's got some tweaks too and didn't look like Xfce on my Debian work box.