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It's kind of weird, because people I know would have opinions about KDE vs Gnome and they didn't say anything exactly wrong, but I've never heard anyone ever ta

• mikegioia 11y ago
  I agree, they should have done Distros, i.e. "Oh, you run Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself". I have never once talked to anyone about the window manager nor would I comment on it.
  • morb 11y ago
    Now that would be unrealistic. You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second. You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those are mostly used with their respective distros. People don't usually have output of cat /etc/os-release on the screen easily visible for people passing by to see. There isn't that much visible difference between distros if you aren't working as root.
    • _lce0 11y ago
      "Oh, you run Gnome, is that Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself" that would be something credible, but hey they are getting really close!
  • baghira 11y ago
    FWIW I've basically had the conversation seen in the show, albeit with a friend, not a stranger. He was running XFCE because it was the default in Debian, and I was running KDE (have been for twelve years). So I found the exchange at least plausible. I think it boils down to the fact that, some people find DE quite uninteresting (unlike editors), while others have strong feelings about them.