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0 pointsChuckNorris892y ago0 comments

>What distribution doesn't support at least half a dozen desktop environments these days?

Most usually come out of the box with official support for only 2 DEs. Of course they can theoretically support every one out there if you manually install them.

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creshal2y ago

Usually for all major distributions you get in the official repositories

- Gnome

- KDE

- Xfce

- Cinnamon

- Mate

- LXDE/LXQt

- Several *box stacked and assorted tiling window managers and assorted glue scripts

That's a fairly solid base of "support" even if the distributions don't provide live CDs with any particular setup preinstalled.

The only exception I've seen are the "we took an existing distro, threw away half the repository, patched 2 packages and slapped our own logo on top" wannabe hipster distributions that last an entire two years before folding due to being pointless.

lelanthran2y ago

You make it sound like so much work, "manual installing".

It's as simple as

     apt-get install $DE

ChuckNorris89OP2y ago

Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros. That's why they usually give you a downloads with one or two options already setup and tested.

lelanthran2y ago

> Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Using apt, yum, pacman or the equivalent is still just a single command. Your implication that "manual installation" is extra work when it is a single command on all the desktop distros.

Saying that "executing a single command" is too much manual work is simply delusional.

> Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros.

Nonsense. I'm currently running Plasma, which was not the default. I've installed so many in the past on this machine that I lost track of them.

I've switched DEs and window managers multiples on this machine, with no problems.

creshal2y ago

They all have wikis you can read. And running DEs in parallel is a different problem from simply switching between two.

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creshal2y ago

Usually for all major distributions you get in the official repositories

- Gnome

- KDE

- Xfce

- Cinnamon

- Mate

- LXDE/LXQt

- Several *box stacked and assorted tiling window managers and assorted glue scripts

That's a fairly solid base of "support" even if the distributions don't provide live CDs with any particular setup preinstalled.

lelanthran2y ago

You make it sound like so much work, "manual installing".

It's as simple as

     apt-get install $DE

ChuckNorris89OP2y ago

Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros. That's why they usually give you a downloads with one or two options already setup and tested.

lelanthran2y ago

> Try that command on Arch, Fedora or OpenSUSE and let me know how it works.

Using apt, yum, pacman or the equivalent is still just a single command. Your implication that "manual installation" is extra work when it is a single command on all the desktop distros.

Saying that "executing a single command" is too much manual work is simply delusional.

> Also, having multiple DEs in parallels rarely plays well with most distros.

Nonsense. I'm currently running Plasma, which was not the default. I've installed so many in the past on this machine that I lost track of them.

I've switched DEs and window managers multiples on this machine, with no problems.

creshal2y ago

They all have wikis you can read. And running DEs in parallel is a different problem from simply switching between two.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse