Examples could be things like specific configuration defaults or general decision-making in leadership.

What would you change?

  • @[email protected]
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    1311 months ago

    It is. I don’t know what you’re talking about. You can go ahead and apt-get xfce on Linux Mint right now. Back in 1998, I had Window Maker, Gnome and some other windows 95 inspired DE all installed in my Conectiva Linux. It was always possible.

    • Josh
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      -611 months ago

      Installing KDE Plasma on a Gnome installation breaks so much shit it’s not funny, but most of this seems to be a problem with the command line because doing it with YAST seems to prevent things from breaking.

      • Bo7a
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        811 months ago

        I don’t get this. It is a common statement on lemmy especially among the new users. I have been daily-driving linux for many many years, and every install of a new distro gets 3 or 4 DEs added to play around with and find the ‘flavour of the year’ for myself.

        I don’t recall this ever being a real problem. Ever.

        • @ikidd
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          511 months ago

          Been using Linux for 25 years, and I remember some of this from init script years, but it’s been a long, long time since it’s been an issue in any half-way decent distro.

          • Bo7a
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            311 months ago

            Roughly the same here. And yeah this hasn’t been a problem since the very first years. And even then it was just some config tweaks.

            • @[email protected]
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              211 months ago

              I started with Conectiva in the nineties. Back on Gnome 1, fvwm, etc. Never experienced that. The opposite, it was always possible to run programs from one toolkit in another. The only issue was the aesthetic clash.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        I haven’t installed KDE in a long time. But installing both Gnome and Window Maker next to Mint’s Cinnamon was absolutely breezy.