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From: Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 07:10:34 +0100
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Ian wrote:

> This thread has now been running for several days, and no one has
> preferred Gnome. Yet several well-known distributions make Gnome their
> default. Why?

I have used Gnome more than other window managers due to generally being 
a redhat/fedora/centos user, but it's rare for me to do anything on my 
linux boxes that couldn't be done within an SSH session, or web browser.

Also a bit of (probably irrelevant now) licencing dislike with KDE/Qt.