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regularfry on June 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Containerization is a Swift package for running Li...

If you're just kicking the tyres on Fedora or Ubuntu, you're not getting KDE. I love it myself, but I know it's there. The average curious person is going to get whatever Gnome thinks they deserve at that point in time.

graemep on June 10, 2025 [–]

Gnome being the default does probably harm Linux desktop adoption.

On the other hand do people care that much about DEs? Most people just want to start their web browser or whatever.

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