On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 10:37 PM Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/7/18 11:53 AM, David A. De Graaf wrote: >> >> I realize there's a powerful faction at Redhat that insists that Gnome >> is the One True Way. They're wrong. > > At least you do have other options with Fedora. Not so easy with, say, > Ubuntu. Switching desktops on it is a bit more convoluted. I've never > tried it myself, but I've heard stories. The stories that you've heard are just that, nonsensical stories. I'd expect all distributions to have a simple way of installing the DEs that they support. On Debian, it's "apt-get install xfce4" or "apt-get install task-xfce-desktop" (the latter pulls in more dependencies). On Funtoo, it's "epro mix-ins +xfce ; emerge xfce4-meta". On Gentoo, it's "emerge xfce4-meta". On Ubuntu, it's "apt-get install xfce4" for a vanilla xfce, "apt-get install xubuntu-core" for a minimal ubuntu-fied xfce, "apt-get install xubuntu-desktop" for an ubuntu-fied xfce. These are the distributions that I know (I had to check the Funtoo wiki for the "epro" syntax). On Arch, there must be a simple pacman invocation and, on OpenSUSE, a simple zypper one. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
