Re: What Window Manager/Desktop Environment do you use, and why?

On 2025-06-07, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 07-06-2025, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> a écrit :

On 2025-06-06, Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> wrote:

Le 06-06-2025, Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> a écrit :

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I think the distros want to push their vision moreso than doing what the
highly technical Linux users want.

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I don't believe that. Maybe for Mint it's the case, but the Mint look
and feel for every Window Manager they provide is a good reason people
choose it, so it works both ways.
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For the other distros I saw, I don't believe that. People want something
that works out of the box, so the distros provide what people want. But
they don't stop you to change the default. There is only one default
which is hard to change is the init system. But except for that, they
push nothing. And some distro don't even make choices outside of the
init system.

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How do you explain GNOME 3 then?  I do think, to some degrees, people
creating distros do have a vision of how things should work.  They
choose defaults for a reason.

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Of course they choose default for a reason. They are the one who develop
it, the one who test it and the one who answer questions about it. So
they have to chose the way that suit them the best. That doesn't mean
they want to impose their vision.
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The GNOME developers took features out because they thought it would
confuse users.  They had shown a disregard for user input and stuck by
what they thought was best.  You can look up some of the controversy
about it, at the time of release.