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Re: De-duplicating the desktops: Let's come together, right now

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On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:35:05 -0800, John Ames wrote:

> That said, it *does* get a bit silly, and there's a noticeable tendency
> for large FOSS projects in the modern era to stick around less because
> the software makes a compelling case for itself than because the
> organizations that develop around it give developers of a Certain
> Temperament a feeling of prestige and/or power. And the whole distro/
> "spin" thing oriented towards one specific DE is just pointless when
> it's not like the other alternatives are even taken out of the
> repository :/ Just put a list of options in the damn installer, people!
> You were already doing this for GNOME/KDE by the Upper Paleolithic!

Four different isos for Mint seems a bit silly.  Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce, and 
LMDE, which is Cinnamon. EndeavourOS does it right. If you choose the 
offline install you get KDE. Let it phone home and you can pick your 
poison.

> (The article is funny, anyway, for hand-wringing about duplication of
> effort, when a lack of developer effort has never, ever been the reason
> why freenix UI sucks. GIMP has been the only game in town in its
> particular niche of the FOSS world for nearly thirty years, and they
> only *just* figured out how to do keyboard accelerators properly.)

I've rarely used GIMP because I rarely do the sort of stuff GIMP does but  
my brief, painful, encounters have led me sometimes to use it as an 
example of how not to do a UI. Ditto Photoshop. My level of expertise is 
using Paint to trim down a screen capture. 

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