Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Wayland Makes Progress Date: 12 May 2026 02:25:06 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <18ac73d880b9a55f$7676$2865982$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <10ticho$263lq$3@dont-email.me> <20260508151345.0000586e@gmail.com> <10tnl8b$3nr4e$3@dont-email.me> <10tr4ef$n8tt$12@dont-email.me> <10ttenh$cuv0$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net dkNbHEiFDLeCF4YO6SOhUwlifnfjNL056yO0T9Nm2P9D83MGQj Cancel-Lock: sha1:mdKiqtqCzvGGkt0pXuykV8ikg2c= sha256:V2b4eYTScEdbPm+XJnHTEjWm83+Em5nT+6qBL9MzFDM= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:86425 On Mon, 11 May 2026 22:38:07 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > rbowman wrote: >>I never liked GNOME and switched to SuSE early on since it was KDE. > > I don't think there ever was a time where you had to switch > distributions to get a different desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux I repress painful memories but I vaguely recall rpm hell from trying to build a DE other than the default GNOME. gcc 2.96 that couldn't build a kernel and a homegrown Python that broke existing scripts was the last straw. SuSE came in a nice, shrink wrapped box with KDE out of the gate. Sold, American! It wasn't exactly 'sudo rpm -i kde' back then. It only took about 25 years before I took Fedora for a test drive and liked it. The KDE spin, of course. Somewhere along the line I had a box that was configured with GNOMe. I didn't like it and installed KDE. It worked, mostly. Updates were interesting and it was a bit fragile.