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  • This Linux Distro Puts More Than 20 Desktops A Click Away

    From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 19 00:57:44 2025
    From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+HtfCfh7FKYWNlayBNYXJja@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 19 06:12:01 2025
    W dniu 19.08.2025 o 02:57, Lawrence D’Oliveiro pisze:
    From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

    I think that set of Sparky Linux distro advantages seems completely
    ridiculous: installer: Calamares, custom package installer: APTus
    AppCenter, and mentioned above 20 desktops.

    It seems to me that the only reason why polish distro Sparky Linux
    exists is the words-play in polish: Sparky sounds in polish like
    "szaparki" which mean: "young pussies". For me this distro is completely
    stupid polish idea, because I never hear about any "polish szparki"
    which were interested in learning Linux.

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?8J+HtfCfh7FKYWNlayBNYXJja@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 19 06:33:41 2025
    W dniu 19.08.2025 o 06:12, 🇵🇱Jacek Marcin Jaworski🇵🇱 pisze:
    installer: Calamares

    should be:
    Different installer: Calamares

    Is:
    "szaparki"

    should be:
    szparki

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  • From Woozy Song@21:1/5 to All on Tue Aug 19 19:59:48 2025
    Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.


    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei@21:1/5 to Woozy Song on Tue Aug 19 21:30:05 2025
    On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

    CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
    embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
    century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and
    tried to copy it.

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  • From Robert Heller@21:1/5 to Lawrence D Oliveiro on Tue Aug 19 22:45:43 2025
    At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:


    On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

    CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
    embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and tried to copy it.

    FVWM2 supports multiple desktops. Actually most Linux desktop environments support multiple desktops.




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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Robert Heller on Tue Aug 19 17:59:29 2025
    On 8/19/25 15:45, Robert Heller wrote:
    At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:


    On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

    CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
    embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
    century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and
    tried to copy it.

    FVWM2 supports multiple desktops. Actually most Linux desktop environments support multiple desktops.


    Yep! In 2006 my Mandriva 2006 used and shipped multiple desktops on
    the same Set of CDS. I know because I used my "Great Quality" (it died in
    3.5 years) laptop to convert the DVD full of 6 iso file to disks and
    then installed
    on half the small drive as a dual boot XP and Mandriva laptop. Shortly after
    I started with Mandriva my A200b with the 68060 at 50 GHx died and I was forced into the use of Thunderbird and Fidrefox at the time both products of Mozzila. The Amiga was more fun but with the company out of business and
    no resolution to the bankruptcy proceedeing in sight it seemed a sensible
    move. Oh and the destops it supported were KDE, Mate and I believe XFCE.

    bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2025.08- Linux 6.12.42-pclos1- KDE
    Plasma 6.4.4

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  • From Nuno Silva@21:1/5 to Robert Heller on Wed Aug 20 09:39:06 2025
    On 2025-08-19, Robert Heller wrote:

    At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:


    On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

    CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
    embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
    century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be, and
    tried to copy it.

    FVWM2 supports multiple desktops. Actually most Linux desktop environments support multiple desktops.

    I think I've only used more intensively one desktop environment which
    lacked multiple desktops at least out of the box, and that did become
    quite a limitation. Its name was EXPLORER.EXE.

    (Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add multiple/virtual desktops?)

    --
    Nuno Silva

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  • From Nuno Silva@21:1/5 to All on Wed Aug 20 09:27:23 2025
    On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    From <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

    ... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So
    perhaps all of them with some exceptions?) You have a bunch of
    alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
    the package manager?

    Or has this changed?

    --
    Nuno Silva

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  • From Carlos E.R.@21:1/5 to Nuno Silva on Wed Aug 20 12:45:05 2025
    On 2025-08-20 10:27, Nuno Silva wrote:
    On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    From
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20-desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers
    versions with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

    ... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So perhaps all of them with some exceptions?) You have a bunch of
    alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
    the package manager?

    Or has this changed?

    openSUSE does that. It has a bunch of desktops and you can install any.
    In fact, each user can have his own choice. I don't have the complete
    list. Maybe, not all named during initial installation. I think initial
    choice is plasma, gnome, xfce; but then you can install more via patterns.

    --
    Cheers, Carlos.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Nuno Silva on Wed Aug 20 18:34:50 2025
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:27:23 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

    On 2025-08-19, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    From
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-linux-distro-puts-more-than-20- desktops-a-click-away/>:

    Typically, Sparky defaults to the LXQt desktop, but offers versions
    with MATE, Xfce, and KDE Plasma.

    and

    Remember the Web Browser installer? Sparky gives desktop
    environments the same treatment. Go to the app center, click
    Desktops, and you'll find 27 different desktops to install, from
    Awesom, Budgie, CDE, Cinnamon, Enlightenment, GNOME, i3, MATE,
    Openbox, Sway, and more.

    All of these are available in Debian, which Sparky is based on.

    ... isn't this exactly how Linux-based distributions usually work? (So perhaps all of them with some exceptions?) You have a bunch of
    alternatives packaged and you can install and use different ones through
    the package manager?

    Years ago when I first used Ubuntu I wasn't impressed by GNOME and
    installed KDE. It worked, sort of, but there was a bit of fragility.
    Since then I've stuck with the distro with the DE I wanted, Fedora KDE, Lubuntu, etc.


    Or has this changed?

    I think it's gotten smoother if you want multiple DEs. There was one
    distro that came with just about every DE just in case you want a
    different one every day.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Nuno Silva on Wed Aug 20 18:38:40 2025
    On Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:39:06 +0100, Nuno Silva wrote:

    On 2025-08-19, Robert Heller wrote:

    At Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:30:05 -0000 (UTC) Lawrence DÿOliveiro
    <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:


    On Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:59:48 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

    and it offers CDE for those who loved 1990s retro experience

    CDE was the pioneer of the concept of multiple desktops. Which was
    embraced by other *nix GUIs, but it took until much more recently this
    century before Microsoft and Apple discovered how useful it might be,
    and tried to copy it.

    FVWM2 supports multiple desktops. Actually most Linux desktop
    environments support multiple desktops.

    I think I've only used more intensively one desktop environment which
    lacked multiple desktops at least out of the box, and that did become
    quite a limitation. Its name was EXPLORER.EXE.

    (Wasn't there a "powertoy" for Windows 4 (or maybe NT 5.x) to add multiple/virtual desktops?)

    There was one for Windows 7 but iirc it was a third party offering and not
    part of a PowerToy release. It wasn't great but I did use it.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Aug 21 10:55:17 2025
    On 20/08/2025 19:34, rbowman wrote:
    Years ago when I first used Ubuntu I wasn't impressed by GNOME and
    installed KDE. It worked, sort of, but there was a bit of fragility.
    Since then I've stuck with the distro with the DE I wanted, Fedora KDE, Lubuntu, etc.

    Whereas I moved to Mint Mate.
    *shrug*. whatever


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    Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
    – Will Durant

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