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

What would you change?

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
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    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.

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      1 year 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.

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        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.

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          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.

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            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.