[Discuss] Debian Buster is the worst desktop OS

[gaf.linux at gmail.com (Jerry Feldman)]

Grant,
That is your computer telling you to roll back or install Fedora :-)

On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:00 PM Grant Mongardi <gmongardi at napc.com> wrote:

> 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.)
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