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Re: Why?



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S Clement wrote:
> I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things
> puzzle me.

You're in the deep water now.  Prepare to swim...

> Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde?  I have examined both
> and kde seems to me to be easier to use.  There must be something
> I am missing.

Way Back When, KDE (more specifically, Qt) had a non-OSS-friendly
license.  Thus was born GNOME.

Since Debian and it's Developers were/are committed to free
software, GNOME was naturally the preferred "heavy" desktop.

Another consideration is that KDE is, from what I see on the mailing
lists, a more complicated set of packages to build.

> Is it worth hunting for a way to change the default?

Sure, if you want.

> Where did you get that logo?

Google is your friend.

>                               When it came up on the gnome
> desktop it immediatlely reminded me of something being flushed
> down the drain.  I hope it doesn't mean that!

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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