McGovern: Handing over [LWN.net]

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 19, 2022 9:49 UTC (Sat) by hailfinger (subscriber, #76962)
In reply to: McGovern: Handing over by brielmj
Parent article: McGovern: Handing over

> "THE default desktop on ALL MAJOR Linux distributions"
(emphasis mine) is a really bold claim.
I do consider openSUSE to be a major Linux distribution. GNOME is one of the (three) default desktops on openSUSE, the others being KDE Plasma and Xfce. Admittedly, the openSUSE market share varies depending on which region you look at.

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McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 19, 2022 10:45 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Further to my last comment, it appears that SLES now supports *only* Gnome.

So it looks like the three "big" distros (as in commercial money-earning) now do not support anything other than Gnome. (That's Canonical, RHEL, SLES).

Much as I like openSUSE, along with Fedora and Debian, they are community shoe-string projects, and while they may have a lot of mind-share, it's probably a lot less than their market share.

So actually, I think it's even worse - all *important* distros *only* support Gnome :-(

Cheers,
Wol

McGovern: Handing over

Posted Feb 19, 2022 13:27 UTC (Sat) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

Which one gets installed if you just say "gimme a desktop"?

That's THE default.

(If you can't say "gimme a desktop" but have to explicitly choose one by a user interface gesture more involved than just "keep hitting OK", you don't have a default desktop at all.)