Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Natural Philosopher Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why? Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2025 13:26:09 +0100 Organization: A little, after lunch Lines: 27 Message-ID: <101ump1$27k2a$15@dont-email.me> References: <101tsvg$en0o$1@paganini.bofh.team> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:26:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93e20cb2c67aced90eee239246403753"; logging-data="2347082"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/F0EGobR7AtWCMriRgYLT9nziHmoM1Bw4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hGElbM2JGVE7LX7k4oCyIELrj2E= In-Reply-To: <101tsvg$en0o$1@paganini.bofh.team> Content-Language: en-GB On 06/06/2025 06:05, Ian wrote: > c186282 wrote: > >> Everybody wants something different. >> >> Personally, if it can be had, I still use LXDE. >> It's just Good Enough without being a ridiculous >> drag on things. XFCE is the next best FOR ME. >> >> Others want more like the Winders experience, all >> the bells & whistles and 'integration'. >> >> There's no one-size-fits-all desktop. The great >> thing about Linux is that you can CHOOSE. > > 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 think there may be a correlation between people who hang out here and more technical desktops. -- "An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others...” Tom Wolfe