Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released

From	Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject	Re: Kewl. Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 Released
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc
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Date	2025-12-09 23:58 +0000
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On Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:30:46 +0000, vallor wrote:

> 
> So that's the question:  In your opinion, what's wrong with DE's,
> which are just collections of tools built around a window
> manager?
>

Because the "tools" are totally unnecessary.

What "tools" can a DE offer that cannot be provided by
various CLI or other software?

Answer: None.

Also, the DE requires an integrated software environment
that adds both bloat and insecurity.  To link all the
DE applications together requires constantly running
"services" and that, IMO, is not a good idea and a complete
waste of computing resources.

A DE is only a method of dazzling the digitally ignorant,
but because magic does not really exist a DE requires enormous
resources that the digitally competent can do without.

A window manager is the CLI elevated to a graphical level,
and that, also IMO, constitutes total computing perfection.

-- 
Gentoo: the only road to GNU/Linux freedom and perfection.

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