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At best, you have numerous options that suit your needs, be it in regards to usability and visual preferences (GNOME, KDE, also RIP Unity) or maybe to have a ni
by KronisLV 5y ago
At best, you have numerous options that suit your needs, be it in regards to usability and visual preferences (GNOME, KDE, also RIP Unity) or maybe to have a nice desktop experience with limited hardware resources (LXDE, LXQt, XFCE).
At worst, you have a number of competing products that can end up somewhat subpar, as opposed to everyone focusing on one option, a la: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
Of course, who's to say which is better, since not having compositing desktop environments that fit within a few hundred MB of RAM would be as bad as all desktop environments looking extremely boring (at least when it comes to the average user, i believe that they deserve to have their eyecandy).