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From: Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 18:18:14 +0100
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On 6/6/25 17:46, Marc Haber wrote:
> Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>> Likely because the same distros that default to Gnome are also the ones
>> that pander to "newly ex winblows users".
> 
> But GNOME is totally different from Windows.
> 
> I perceive GNOME looking more like MacOS while KDE appeals more to
> Windows-socialized people.
> 

Yes, when I said coming from MS Windows, I prefer GNONME. I didn't mean 
I prefer GNOME to other Linux Window Managers, I meant I preferred GNOME 
to MS Windows. I even started to use MS Windows more like I use GNOME.

Maybe that is just my preference, and nothing to do with me ever having 
used MS Windows.