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

On Mon, 9 Jun 2025 08:56:38 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

The $BASE where I worked for awhile allowed Linux (with some basic
support),
so I installed Debian on my laptop workstations. But after awhile they
demanded Red Hat; but CentOS was acceptable, so that's what I used.
It was fine. (Fluxbox as the window manager, of course.)

IT where I worked tried their best to ignore Linux so there was no policy,
except maybe not using distros like RHEL that cost money. Since we all had
to build and run the software it pointed out some of the little distro
quirks.

Moving from AIX was an interesting exercise too. AIX was extremely lenient
about NULL accesses. While it was never good technique defining variable
in header files got a pass for years. Then whatever gcc shipped with
Debian Bullseye got snotty about multiple definitions.