What would you do if you could not, for whatever reason, use your favorite Desktop Environment on your chosen distribution (openSUSE)?
Would you switch to another distribution with your preferred desktop environment or would you change desktop environments in the same distribution? If so, to which one?
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I have never had this problem and I hope not to in the future.
Nevertheless, in that case, I think I would try a different desktop environment in the same distribution. I use kde, I would switch to gnome.
If after some time I were not happy, I would consider the possibility of changing distribution.
Hi,
I would stick with the same distribution at first and try another DE. If after some time I am not satisfied, I’ll switch to a distro that has the DE I like.
That implies that, in your situation, everything is allowed except for openSUSE with KDE. Isn’t that a bit unlikely?
But I would switch to Gnome on openSUSE. Were it only for the fact that is costs the least resources (install Gnome when not allready there and a bit of clicking in the GUI login screen vs. a reinstall of another distro) and thus I could go on with the real work asap.
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I’ve never thing it, it’s very dificult that openSUSE don’t have KDE,
lxde, E17 or BlackBox :S
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It’s all a hypothetical question. Kinda a question whether you are more inclined to follow your distribution or follow your environment.
Just resuscitated an 11 year old computer with only 64Mb RAM (which originally ran KDE 1.1.2) and so had to change desktop environment; using PCManFM and finding it different but interestingly so - the distro (MiniNo) comes with Abiword and Gnumeric - so it’s a lot more usable than I thought it might be.
On 02/28/2011 03:06 PM, dragonbite wrote:
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> What would you do if you could not, for whatever reason, use
> your favorite Desktop Environment on your chosen distribution
> (openSUSE)?
i would just sit and cry…all day…
> Would you switch to another distribution with your preferred desktop
> environment or would you change desktop environments in the same
> distribution?
no, i would just sit and cry…
> If so, to which one?
is there more than one?
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I would stick with openSUSE but use a different DE. Since I am using KDE and for some reason it doesn’t work (which I hope doesn’t happen because I love KDE) I would most likely go back to GNOME which I used before I fell in love with KDE.
I’m already anticipating this hypothetical situation for a couple of years now:
I keep an install of the previous openSUSE release, and update it regularly.
Next to KDE (which I normally use), I install and keep up to date LXDE for those cases where KDE does not start (which has not happened for a long time, though running Factory KDE)
I need my applications, the DE is not THAT important. If, for whatever reason, KDE became unusable in openSUSE, I guess I’d use LXDE or some such and keep using KDE apps.
Uwe
On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:17:02 +0530, Uwe Buckesfeld <u.buckesfeld@web.de>
wrote:
> I need my applications, the DE is not THAT important. If, for whatever
> reason, KDE became unusable in openSUSE, I guess I’d use LXDE or some
> such and keep using KDE apps.
>
exactly. i’m using KDE:/Distro:/Factory most of the time, and when that
gets disturbingly unstable, i use awesome, fluxbox, or something new i
want to try out, but with (mostly) KDE applications, to which i’m pretty
attached by now.
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phani.
I love KDE as main graphics interface. I like also Gnome of MONOMAXOS. Have you check this linux distro? it is perfect.
I’ve actually already done this … more than once … so it’s not a hypothetical question IMHO.
When KDE4 came out, I moved to GNOME, as KDE4 was not so stable for me. Now that KDE4.6 is out, and GNOME 3 is on the horizon, I plan to move back.
I tried to move from GNOME / OpenSUSE to GNOME / Ubuntu (and Fedora and CentOS and …) and the time spent doing that really didn’t seem to outweigh the benefit … and the other distro’s same DE (in this case, GNOME) may have solved a problem I had on a different distribution, but it caused lots of others. So, like I said, not much gained.
Moving distros usually requires leaning another package manager – then you have to learn the other distribution’s way of packaging up the DE, and its quirks – so for me it’s just easier to use a different DE on the same distro.
my $.02
I would switch the distro. I think this question is towards Ubuntu, where you will have just Unity in the future, right? 
Or it is regarding Gnome 3.
I switched distros because of this reason. Sure, the fact that I did not like the new parts of the desktop environment and all changes was just one component, but it was one of the main reasons why I switched.
I always was wandering between KDE and Gnome as my favourite DE but right now I for one am not so excited about Gnome 3… So I stick with Opensuse and KDE
If my current desktop isn’t available, I’ll try another. The most important feature for me is having multiple desktops, so as to avoid the clutter. I can be satisfied with KDE, gnome, XFCE, fvwm, and probably several others.
If the distro becomes unavailable, I’ll switch to a different distro.
Life goes on.
The question was inspired by some of the arguments, but that isn’t the whole picture. I wonder if the distros differentiate themselves enough that people would decide to go with a different desktop environment so long as it is the same distribution, or are distributions alike-enough that if your chosen Desktop Environment is not available anymore on that distro one could just as easily jump to another distro with the chosen Desktop Environment.
Right now I think this question would be overshadowed in the Ubuntu or Fedora forums by their latest situations. OpenSUSE, on the other hand, seems to be aiming towards a good distribution release with KDE and I haven’t seen the Gnome 3 bemoaning in the forums (yet)
I have found this page for some information : Portal:11.4 - openSUSE
I’d go for a different distro, Destkop Environment is everything…
I would be sadened to leave openSuse but as the previous poster says “Destkop Environment is everything…”
I remember reading in the forum of some other linux distro something like this: “All linuxes having the same kernel and the same libc6 will be essentially the same. The minor difference is the package management.” If that is the truth will the distro really matter so much?