Re:Gnome Foundation Budget Troubles FAQ
by gkop on Sunday April 13, 2014 @12:30PM
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I run GNOME 3 because it underpins Debian and Debian is the least fragmented developer-friendly Linux desktop. It's got the reliability I need for a work environment and the shininess that makes me happy and is as usable out-of-the-box as OSX, Windows 7, or Ubuntu. Also I appreciate Abiword and Gnumeric, GNOME's word processor and spreadsheet respectively, for sucking the least among their FOSS alternatives. I donate.
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Re:Gnome Foundation Budget Troubles FAQ
by reality_czech on Sunday April 13, 2014 @01:42PM
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Debian shipped Xfce for a while as the default (I'm not sure what the latest default is).
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/11/debian-8-0-switches-xfce-...
In general, most of the GNOME devs work for Red Hat. Debian is not really that closely associated with GNOME, and a lot of the Debian devs have gotten annoyed by GNOME decisions in the past. I think the latest example was when GNOME started to depend on systemd, some Debian developers were annoyed.
Thanks for the info. I trust Debian to make good decisions about the new init system and the default desktop environment. If they go with Xfce I will not complain (and it'll be a nice boon for Xfce development; potentially a win-win).
Re:Gnome Foundation Budget Troubles FAQ
by reality_czech on Sunday April 13, 2014 @04:08PM
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I like Debian as well. I wish they were more popular than "that other distro" that copies their work without contributing much back. I think the move to systemd is a good idea.
Oh, I forgot about applications. It's probably because they've very loosely coupled to the rest of GNOME (unlike KDE applications and KDE). By the way, if you like Abiword, you might also like LyX.
How does Gnome "underpin" Debian?
Poor word choice. Nevertheless the default desktop environment is a key characteristic of a distribution.