Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: pothead Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: The Desktop Environment (was: Re: The problem with not owning the software) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 17:28:32 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Libtard Rehabilitation Program Lines: 53 Message-ID: References: <6779778d$0$28051$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <67799e06$0$12936$426a74cc@news.free.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:28:32 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="67381dc3ab24b871cfa7eb41606e8e15"; logging-data="1195905"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qV1i7yfmIEAxrmfxjs179" User-Agent: slrn/1.0.3 (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:M6wjjTMFvZJi1nDOilEYTNwGxYU= Bytes: 3911 On 2025-01-05, vallor wrote: > On 04 Jan 2025 20:45:58 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote > in <67799e06$0$12936$426a74cc@news.free.fr>: > >> Le 04-01-2025, DFS a écrit : >>> On 1/4/2025 1:01 PM, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote: >>>> Le 04-01-2025, DFS a écrit : >>>>> >>>>> Which Linux distro offers perfect consistency? >>>> >>>> First, I'd say it's not the job of the distro. It's the job of the >>>> Window Manager. >>>> >>>> Now, the first time I installed Mint for someone else, I installed a >>>> few different WM to show that there is no better WM, there is only a >>>> WM which suit more the user. And they have to be tested to know which >>>> one to chose. I have to say it was disturbing to see they all look >>>> similar and I still don't know if I like it or not. >>>> >>>> So, Mint is not perfect, but it's the only one I know which offer real >>>> consistency. >>> >>> Cinnamon desktop? >> >> What I mean is cinnamon is the default desktop. I don't like it, it's a >> matter of taste, it's of no concern here. But when I installed xfce, >> lxde and enlightenment, they all looked like cinnamon and that was >> disturbing. I was hopping to show different ways of using Linux, but >> they were so similar, it was like showing the Window Manager is of no >> consequence, they can all look the same. So, it was a consistency >> brought by the distro, not by the WM. > > Not just WM, but DE. Even so, one can configure. > > Here I'm making sure Cairo Dock is stable enough for > Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation: > > https://imgur.com/yYyJRwg > > (DE: xfce4) > Looks great. -- pothead "Give a man a fish and you turn him into a Democrat for life" "Teach a man to fish and he might become a self-sufficient conservative Republican" "Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up," --- Barack H. Obama