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Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

Posted Aug 11, 2012 17:28 UTC (Sat) by hummassa (subscriber, #307)
In reply to: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME by rleigh
Parent article: Dricot: A freasy future for GNOME

> GNOME2 has a massive userbase--it was the default desktop on Linux for a decade after all

That made me laugh. Hard.


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Posted Aug 12, 2012 17:29 UTC (Sun) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

Likewise the comment about KDE not being used ...

Okay, I think SuSE is about the only distro that defaults to KDE, but Kubuntu certainly seems to be popular.

But I'll add to that, my *limited* experience is that nobody uses Gnome!

I've now installed xfce and lxde on my system, but mostly because I've got fed up with dealing with the fallout of "emerge -u kde" in a kde console window. (The update takes out konsole, which takes out emerge, which leaves me with a mess of an upgrade to sort out!)

I've always been a kde guy, even when nepomuk was enabled by default and had a habit of killing systems... (as somebody pointed out elsewhere, even if it was infuriating, the kde devs did say "we're going to fix it" rather than what I see reported of Gnome guys saying "live with it").

Cheers,
Wol

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Posted Aug 12, 2012 20:05 UTC (Sun) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

> I've now installed xfce and lxde on my system, but mostly because I've got fed up with dealing with the fallout of "emerge -u kde" in a kde console window.

screen emerge -u kde
[... konsole exits ...]
screen -R

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