[Discuss] Debian Buster is the worst desktop OS

[gmongardi at napc.com (Grant Mongardi)]

Well, it was in fact Debian Stretch that used Cinnamon as the default
desktop. That's sort of the point I was making. I don't know why you would
so dramatically change that experience. And GNOME in this particular
iteration is not very good at all, not even as good as older versions I've
used. Hell, the computer makes a horrible screech noise everytime I put a
USB stick in, something I've never experienced before.

Thanks,
Grant M.

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:05 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Debian is a good Server distro and a good _base_ to build a desktop distro.
> I would not consider it a desktop distro.
>
> Stock Debian with all defaults as a desktop? Unlikely to be enjoyable
> without a lot of customizing.
>
> I did use stock Debian as a desktop distro once, but it was on a DEC ALPHA
> workstation that i was using as a compute node, not as my primary desktop,
> so it didn't matter. (This was a long time ago, before 86_64/AMD64 were
> commodity.)
>
> And yes, much of the UX is switchable with window manager & desktop choice.
>
> (The whole point of Mint and Cinnamon was that the stock desktop & window
> manager choices and defaults in Debian and Ubuntu were sufficiently
> annoying to someone to fork and do better.)
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss mailing list
> Discuss at lists.blu.org
> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>


-- 

Grant Mongardi
*Senior Systems Engineer*
*NAPC inc*
p: 781-799-5340
a: 444 Washington Street Suite #210, Woburn, MA 01801
w: www.napc.com  e: gmongardi at napc.com
<https://facebook.com/napcgroup>   <https://twitter.com/NAPCgroup>
<https://www.linkedin.com/company/205941/>