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From: Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 7 years ago on cola...
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DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote:

>>> ...I was running Manjaro/xfce, and did a little 'experiment': installed
>>> mucho desktops.
>>>
>>>
>>> $ sudo pacman -S <DE name>
>>>
>>> LXDE (installed in 20 seconds)
>>> fluxbox  (installed in 5 seconds)
>>> gnustep (target not found)
>>> cinnamon (installed in 20 seconds)
>>> deepin (bunch of errors)
>>> budgie (target not found)
>>> enlightenment (installed in 20 seconds)
>>> gnome and gnome-extra (huge - but installed in about 2 minutes)
>>> kde,kde4,kde5,plasma5  (all failed, target not found)
>>> lxqt (installed in 5 seconds)
>>> mate (installed in 20 seconds)
>>> awesome (tiling window mgr - installed in 3 seconds)
>>> cde (target not found)
>>> razor-qt (errors)
>>> icewm (installed in 3 seconds)
>>>
>>>
>>> At the end, this is what the login mgr (SLIM) looked like:
>>>
>>> http://imgur.com/a/aO1Ib
>> 
>> That's an amazing thing that Linux can do, if one is scatterbrained.
>> It's cool that your experiment showed that it will work with whatever
>> we throw at the system.
>
>It is very cool.  But 'scatterbrained' - what are you babbling about?


I'm suggesting that it's tinkering, not something that would normally
be a thing to do.


>I was curious about how Linux would handle all those desktops.  When you 
>add a DE, entries are added to /usr/share/xsessions and the login 
>manager SLIM picks them up from there and presents them.
>
>Ideally each desktop environment would load and run flawlessly, and 
>uninstall without interfering with the others (ie would it remove shared 
>icon sets)
>
>I talked more about it back then:
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>The problem with installing all those is it downloads a boatload of
>packages and you get some duplicates listed in various places.  And if
>you try to uninstall everything but one, the system might break.  Later
>I'll uninstall all but xfce and see what happens.
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I don't think I followed up and removed all but the original (xfce). 
>But I am curious what would happen if I did.  So it's an experiment I 
>should try again.  Failure will result in hard cola trolling.


Let us know, I guess.

-- 
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.