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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:25:57 +0100
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On 2025-07-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:13:07 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2025-07-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 14:10:23 -0700, John Ames wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't care *what* people offer as a novelty geegaw as long as it
>>>> doesn't get in the way of the regular workflow.
>>>
>>> Previously you seemed to have an objection to such things existing in
>>> the first place. So that’s progress, at least.
>> 
>> Most of us don't object to these things existing.
>> We just object to being forced to use them.
>
> Thankfully, Free Software/Open Source is all about choice.

(... unless/until it involves a grammatical symbol in Freedesktop
stuff?)

Do you realize how close this can be to Microsoft claiming they don't
have a monopoly because there are other systems? In practice, that
there's that choice in some corner doesn't change in any way the forces
of peer-pressure and vendor-locking arising from Microsoft and friends,
especially if in practice you're still forced to do things their way.

That's what it sounds like when you try to dismiss criticism of forcing
something in FLOSS software with "but there's choice".

-- 
Nuno Silva