Re: the importance of defaults (was: Debian default desktop environment)

[Fabio Rafael da Rosa <fdr@fdrout.net>]

Em 12-04-2014 08:15, Jonas Smedegaard escreveu:
> Quoting alberto fuentes (2014-04-12 12:23:46)
> > I had to leave gnome with gnome3 because it disrupted my workflow so
> > much i couldn't cope
> >
> > In my case I like shiny but not at the cost of useful.
> >
> > xfce4 felt like a less polished gnome2 but at least it didn't disrupt
> > my workflow.
> I am in favor of Xfce as default desktop for Debian, but...
>
>
> > Some numbers with my free interpretation from ubuntu popcon:
> > unity is installed in 605_209 machines, but its used regularly only by
> > 46_210
> >
> > Thats a very low number by all metrics for a default desktop [0].
> > People dislike it. People dislike disruptive
> ...or those people simply do not use a desktop on those installations?
I think that this would make more sense. Every ubuntu installation I 
see, that was not from a previous Linux user, is running Unity. None of 
them did ever complain to me (and people like to complain when they 
recognize you as a 'Linux guy') .

> Only if popcon numbers for xfce/kde/whatever add up to somewhere near
> the missing amount can you reasonably conclude distaste for a particular
> desktop as reason, I believe.
>
>
>   - Jonas

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