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

Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote:

Many things are easier, but one thing I found was that the option to
install different software was less obvious.  My first Linux
installation gave me a choice to install GNOME and KDE and other Window
Managers.  The choice was there upfront.  I chose GNOME as it was
selected, and KDE wasn't and I didn't see the point in installing a
second, initially.
>
It isn't much easier today.  Now some distros have spins, so it appears
that if you want a different DE, then you need to download an entirely
different installation image.  The choice has just been moved from
within the installer to one that is made before installation, which in
my view, is even more confusing.

I have been using Debian for > 20 years and you just install a new DE
if you want to. The login manager offers you at every login which kind
of session you want. I don't think it was ever any different.

The "spins" came with Ubuntu, and even on a normal Ubuntu I'd expect
KDE Plasma to show up in the login menu after an "apt install
kde-standard". I still think that a "spin" of a Distribution either
originates with a sick marketing idea of with incompetence.

Greetings
Marc
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