From: lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca   
      
   On Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:10:10 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:   
      
   > Jeff Gaines  wrote at 12:42 this Tuesday (GMT):   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >> I am taking a breather at the moment and wanted to ask if there is a   
   >> distro that comes with a 2D desktop as standard since it might be easier   
   >> to start from fresh?   
      
   [sni]   
      
   > Wait, what's a 3D desktop?   
      
   AFAICT, a "3d desktop" is a Window Manager or Desktop Manager that incorporates   
   or requires a compositor to function.   
      
   Standard X11 window managers (like fwm or blackbox, etc) and early desktop   
   managers (like enlightenment) do not need the compositing facilities offered   
   by OpenGL add-ons to X11 or the builtin compositor in Wayland. But, more   
   "modern" Desktop Managers (like Gnome and KDE and others that use the GTK+/Qt   
   toolkits) often depend on a compositor to provide their standard visual   
   environment.   
      
   FWIW, if it uses a compositor, then its not likely to work well with RDP, and   
   not at all with networked/remote X11.   
      
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