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the default desktop

Posted Feb 16, 2022 10:56 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950)
In reply to: the default desktop by aragilar
Parent article: McGovern: Handing over

Could be a factor. I mostly commented because the initial comment seemed to see the negative in something, instead of assuming usually people mean well. Meaning, instead of saying that others were "elbowed out", figure out a way too see the well intentioned actions behind it.

The "assume people mean well" is something that was once in the simple GNOME CoC. I like referring to it because every time I thought I was crazy to still try the "maybe this person means well" approach it turned out that the person meant well, plus that I was too judgmental, yet again.

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the default desktop

Posted Feb 16, 2022 12:35 UTC (Wed) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Which is why I try to be objective and not allocate blame. These things happen.

But, for example, SuSE was always a bastion for KDE - that was the default. Then they went agnostic and didn't give you a default. And now, I don't know, do they default to Gnome?

The problem is that if the smaller DEs lose mindshare, they then lose devs, and they fade away. Losing all that was good, which maybe cannot be replaced ...

Cheers,
Wol