Journal turgid's Journal: Gettin' Old - Desktop Environments 3
In the olden days, your Linux (or whatever) distribution used to come with several desktop environments and plain window managers to choose from.
From what I can see from reading the comments in the peanut gallery these days it seems that a distribution comes welded to a particular desktop environment and that one changes distribution in order to use a different desktop environment...
*Sigh*
This is not How it was Meant to Be.
Laziness (Score:2)
I do just fine installing window maker on whatever I'm using at the time.
People just aren't interested in whatever isn't the default, so if the default on some other distro is what they want, well, that's what they'll do.
Re: (Score:2)
Heh! I've been using Window Maker for 10 years now :-). Today I finally got around to upgrading to Slackware64-13.37. So far so good, but in X, middle-button paste isn't working. My mouse (actually a tracker ball) has four buttons but today I'm having to use middle button emulation. It's too late in the evening to fix that one now.
Not really... (Score:2)
a distribution comes welded to a particular desktop environment and that one changes distribution in order to use a different desktop environment...
I am not aware of a distribution that forbids you from changing environments. However, some people have come to be fond of specific pairings (or just specific distros) and don't care to make a change as the distro is setup with certain assumptions related to its preferred pairing.