On Friday, September 5th, 2025 at 9:46 PM, Nate Bargmann <[email protected]> wrote:
> * On 2025 05 Sep 07:03 -0500, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > > There are so many different desktop environments and so many choices. > > > Indeed, which is a good thing. Not everyone works or thinks the same. > > > Looks like I need to experiment with everyone of them. > > > Maybe. Most are going to follow the classic Windows 95 paradigm to a > greater or lesser extent. This has been my experience with KDE, Xfce, > and Lxqt. It has been years since I tried Mate or Cinnamon but I'd put > them in this category, though that might be a bit unfair. > > GNOME tosses all that away and has built, IMO, a remarkably better > system, but it's quite different. I've been using GNOME nearly > exclusively for nearly seven years and everything else seems archaic. > > About 18 months ago I tried the new Plasma 6 for a time on a laptop I > have Arch installed and after several months replaced it with GNOME. > There were just too many inconsistencies. GNOME isn't perfect, but it's > quite consistent. GNOME appears to be the default desktop environment for many Linux distros. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals Singapore > > - Nate > > -- > "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all > possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." > Web: https://www.n0nb.us > Projects: https://github.com/N0NB > GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
