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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2025 16:11:45 +0100
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On 05/06/2025 14:51, Marc Haber wrote:
> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> So, what Desktop Environment/Window Manager do you use, and why?
> 
> KDE. Current, shiny, and configurable.
> 
MATE, cos its reasonably un-ugly, has enough option to do what I want, 
but isnt loaded with too much irritating eye candy.

And I am familiar with it.

KDE and Xfce are other pretty decent operating environments IIRC.

Cinnamon is dead pretty, but in terms of a desktop I want a wife, not a 
whore

I'm not a fan of raw Gnome.


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