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  This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 00:57 +0000
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-08-19 06:12 +0200
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 <jaworski1978@adres.pl> - 2025-08-19 06:33 +0200
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com> - 2025-08-19 19:59 +0800
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-08-19 21:30 +0000
        Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2025-08-19 22:45 +0000
          Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2025-08-19 17:59 -0700
          Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 09:39 +0100
            Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-20 18:38 +0000
              Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> - 2025-08-20 11:54 -0700
    Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-20 09:27 +0100
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-08-20 12:45 +0200
      Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-08-20 18:34 +0000
        Re: This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-21 10:55 +0100

#71597 — This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away

From
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

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#71618

W dniu 19.08.2025 o 02:57, Lawrence D’Oliveiro pisze:
> From
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:
> 
>      Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
>      versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.
> 
> and
> 
>      Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
>      environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
>      Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
>      Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
>      Openbox, Sway, and more.
> 
> All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

I think that set of Sparky Linux distro advantages seems completely 
ridiculous: installer: Calamares, custom package installer: APTus 
AppCenter, and mentioned above 20 desktops.

It seems to me that the only reason why polish distro Sparky Linux 
exists is the words-play in polish: Sparky sounds in polish like 
"szaparki" which mean: "young pussies". For me this distro is completely 
stupid polish idea, because I never hear about any "polish szparki" 
which were interested in learning Linux.

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#71619

W dniu 19.08.2025 o 06:12, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:
Is:> installer: Calamares

should be:
Different installer: Calamares

Is:
> "szaparki"

should be:
szparki

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#71653

Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> From
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:
> 
>      Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
>      versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.
> 
> and
> 
>      Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
>      environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
>      Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
>      Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
>      Openbox, Sway, and more.
> 
> All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.
> 

and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

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#71691

On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

> and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was 
embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this 
century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and 
tried to copy it.

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#71692

At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
> 
> > and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience
> 
> CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was 
> embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this 
> century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and 
> tried to copy it.

FVWM2 supports multiple desktops.  Actually most Linux desktop environments 
support multiple desktops.  

>                                                                                  
> 

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#71696

On 8/19/25 15:45, Robert Heller wrote:
> At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
>>
>>> and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience
>>
>> CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
>> embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
>> century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and
>> tried to copy it.
> 
> FVWM2 supports multiple desktops.  Actually most Linux desktop environments
> support multiple desktops.
> 

Yep! In 2006 my Mandriva 2006 used and shipped multiple desktops on
the same Set of CDS. I know because I used my "Great Quality" (it  died in
3.5 years) laptop to convert the DVD full of 6 iso file to disks and 
then installed
on half the small drive as a dual boot XP and Mandriva laptop. Shortly after
  I started with Mandriva my A200b with the 68060 at 50 GHx died and I was
forced into the use of Thunderbird and Fidrefox at the time both products of
Mozzila.  The Amiga was more fun but with the company out of business and
no resolution to the bankruptcy proceedeing in sight it seemed a sensible
move.  Oh and the destops it supported were KDE, Mate and I believe XFCE.

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2025.08- Linux 6.12.42-pclos1- KDE 
Plasma 6.4.4

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#71719

On 2025-08-19, Robert Heller wrote:

> At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
>> 
>> > and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience
>> 
>> CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was 
>> embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this 
>> century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and 
>> tried to copy it.
>
> FVWM2 supports multiple desktops.  Actually most Linux desktop environments 
> support multiple desktops.  

I think I've only used more intensively one desktop environment which
lacked multiple desktops at least out of the box, and that did become
quite a limitation. Its name was EXPLORER.EXE.

(Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add
multiple/virtual desktops?)

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#71773

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:39:06 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

> On 2025-08-19, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
>> At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro
>> <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
>>> 
>>> > and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience
>>> 
>>> CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
>>> embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
>>> century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be,
>>> and tried to copy it.
>>
>> FVWM2 supports multiple desktops.  Actually most Linux desktop
>> environments support multiple desktops.
> 
> I think I've only used more intensively one desktop environment which
> lacked multiple desktops at least out of the box, and that did become
> quite a limitation. Its name was EXPLORER.EXE.
> 
> (Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add
> multiple/virtual desktops?)

There was one for Windows 7 but iirc it was a third party offering and not 
part of a PowerToy release. It wasn't great but I did use it.

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#71774

On 20 Aug 2025 18:38:40 GMT
rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> > (Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add
> > multiple/virtual desktops?)  
> 
> There was one for Windows 7 but iirc it was a third party offering
> and not part of a PowerToy release. It wasn't great but I did use it.

Yeah, I used one on XP for years. Better than not having it, but you
could tell it was a bolt-on and less than perfectly seamless.

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#71718

On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

> From
> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:
>
>     Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
>     versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.
>
> and
>
>     Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
>     environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
>     Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
>     Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
>     Openbox, Sway, and more.
>
> All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So
perhaps all of them with some exceptions?)  You have a bunch of
alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
the package manager?

Or has this changed?

-- 
Nuno Silva

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#71748

On 2025-08-20 10:27, Nuno Silva wrote:
> On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> From
>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:
>>
>>      Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
>>      versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.
>>
>> and
>>
>>      Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
>>      environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
>>      Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
>>      Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
>>      Openbox, Sway, and more.
>>
>> All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.
> 
> ... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So
> perhaps all of them with some exceptions?)  You have a bunch of
> alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
> the package manager?
> 
> Or has this changed?

openSUSE does that. It has a bunch of desktops and you can install any. 
In fact, each user can have his own choice. I don't have the complete 
list. Maybe, not all named during initial installation. I think initial 
choice is plasma, gnome, xfce; but then you can install more via patterns.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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#71772

On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:27:23 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

> On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> 
>> From
>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-
desktops-a-click-away/>:
>>
>>     Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers versions
>>     with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.
>>
>> and
>>
>>     Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
>>     environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
>>     Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
>>     Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
>>     Openbox, Sway, and more.
>>
>> All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.
> 
> ... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So
> perhaps all of them with some exceptions?)  You have a bunch of
> alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
> the package manager?

Years ago when I first used Ubuntu I wasn't impressed by GNOME and 
installed KDE.  It worked, sort of, but there was a bit of fragility. 
Since then I've stuck with the distro with the DE I wanted, Fedora KDE, 
Lubuntu, etc. 

> 
> Or has this changed?

I think it's gotten smoother if you want multiple DEs. There was one 
distro that came with just about every DE just in case you want a 
different one every day.

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#71836

On 20/08/2025 19:34, rbowman wrote:
> Years ago when I first used Ubuntu I wasn't impressed by GNOME and
> installed KDE.  It worked, sort of, but there was a bit of fragility.
> Since then I've stuck with the distro with the DE I wanted, Fedora KDE,
> Lubuntu, etc.

Whereas I moved to Mint Mate.
*shrug*. whatever


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