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Ubuntu bashing

Posted May 2, 2012 17:44 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: Ubuntu bashing by dlang
Parent article: Poettering: The Most Awesome, Least-Advertised Fedora 17 Feature

I can install KDE and many other DEs on Fedora also.

The problem is that people always argue that desktop environments gets shortchanged by distributions unless it's available at install time.

I have never seen it that way, but whatever.


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Ubuntu bashing

Posted May 2, 2012 17:49 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

> The problem is that people always argue that desktop environments gets shortchanged by distributions unless it's available at install time.

Ubuntu has spins for most of the DEs where the spin propritizes that DE (kubuntu for KDE, lubuntu for LXDE, etc), so I'd say it's a little less true than for distros that don't offer such spins.

Ubuntu bashing

Posted May 2, 2012 18:12 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

>Ubuntu has spins for most of the DEs where the spin propritizes that DE (kubuntu for KDE, lubuntu for LXDE, etc),

like these ?
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/

> so I'd say it's a little less true than for distros that don't offer such spins.

Personally I think it's silly. I never understood what was so horrible about 'tasksel install kde-desktop' or whatever is the equivalent.

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