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[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, DOS was a base OS that had several frontend GUIs.

Most Linux versions come with the frontend preconfigured unless you get specifically the server version of the OS.

What's going to happen is one of the Linux front ends is going to see widespread adoption/support, and it's looking like it's going to be KDE Plasma. Hopefully the others aren't just abandoned and left to rot.

[–] NotAGamer@lemmy.org -4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

You statement is invalidate immediately by saying DOS was a GUI. It was text based and the text commands were consistent across most versions of DOS.

[–] candyman337@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I said DOS had GUIs, not that it was one