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   Message 106,207 of 107,822   
   Carlos E.R. to Mike Easter   
   Re: Ubuntu, Mint & Fedora   
   04 Jun 24 00:34:07   
   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-06-03 17:49, Mike Easter wrote:   
   > Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> We had a similar debate in openSUSE some time ago; what prevailed was   
   >> to have the distribution desktop agnostic, no default. The user choose   
   >> which one will be the default at installation time. The dvd contains   
   >> both gnome and kde, and there are others available at install time by   
   >> using remote repositories, like XFCE.   
   >>   
   >> However, the commercial SUSE version (SLE) comes with gnome. KDE is   
   >> available through community work (ie, they get KDE from openSUSE).   
   >   
   > Right after Fed 'announced' that they were considering a change and   
   > there was an article about it in Phoronix, a big discussion (typical   
   > Gnome/KDE 'war') erupted in the phoronix forum.  In that discussion the   
   > fans of openSUSE (and SUSE) KDE chimed in including the opinion that   
   > suse/open was the best implementation of KDE.   
   >   
   > So far, my fave default KDE has been Neon's.  I'm especially impressed   
   > w/ how Neon keeps KDE lean; comparable to XFCE now, no comparison to   
   > such as Gnome or Cinnamon which seem 'bloated' by comparison.   
      
   I use neither, I use XFCE. I tried KDE for a month or two; I liked it,   
   but I had several problems and had to quit. Even total crashes.   
      
   --   
   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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