Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by asddubs on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:00PM
(#29619961)
all you have to do is e.g.
sudo apt-get install cinnamon
on ubuntu, and then select cinnamon at the login screen after booting, and it'll work just fine. same for mate, plasma, etc. Same for debian, and most linux distros I've tried. installing another desktop isn't difficult at all, usually
Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by bayindirh on Monday December 20, 2021 @01:09AM
(#29621977)
Debian (and Ubuntu as a result) has "task-*-desktop" tasks (meta-packages) which install, configure and tune the whole distro for a new/additional desktop environment too.
Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by _2paq on Sunday December 19, 2021 @05:00PM
(#29618854)
I wasn't questioning NixOS's customisability. I was questioning the choice to promote GNOME as "recommended for most users" on the download page.
https://nixos.org/download.html#nixos-iso
There's no need for a distro like NixOS to do this. It only serves to lend weight to the arrogance displayed by GNOME.
Re:Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux
by spindle on Sunday December 19, 2021 @06:00PM
(#29619444)
Right, and I'm pretty sure you can use the same display manager with both (at least if it's lightdm), and then switching back and forth between gnome and KDE is literally a matter of switching between the words "gnome" to "plasma5" in one place.
In other distro’s, to get a non-default desktop, you have to download a whole different distro “spin”, like Kubuntu. Or add the new desktop packages and manually configure them all.
With NixOS you use the same install image, and just change two or three lines in the master configuration.nix file, and re/build. You can change back and forth between DE’s that use different window managers with a reboot, or between DE’s that use the same window manager with a relog [3].
Most the major desktops are supported in NixOS [1][2]. Gnome being the default means little, is easy to change should NixOS community ever form a consensus about changing the default (say in response to Gnome crossing some line), and is easy for end users to change any time.
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# Gnome
services.xserver.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.gdm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.gnome.enable = true;
——
# KDE
services.xserver.enable = true;
services.xserver.displayManager.sddm.enable = true;
services.xserver.desktopManager.plasma5.enable = true;
——
[1]:More info: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/index.html#sec-x11
[2]:Supported desktops: https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.11&from=0&size=5...
[3]:https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/comments/otnfq6/i3_or_sway_wh...