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first of all
I mean no malice towards you and hope this doesn't seem aggressive or angry.
don't worry, that's not at all how you came across. different points of view, that's all
anyway, i'm not going to have the energy to reply to this point by point. i will say that i might be biased for being a total linux nerd, so things might appear easier to me than they actually are (even when i take that very fact into account, i'm sure there's an xkcd for that). but my main point still stands: having multiple DEs installed is a supported configuration in most linux distributions. it's not a hack or a fringe corner case, even if it might not be recommended for beginner or even intermediate users.
there's still one thing in your comment that confuses me, though
Maybe forgetting which text editor worked best and seeing a dozen in the application launcher and start searching for the right one
don't you just use the default one? maybe you like a specific text editor and then you'll need to change your defaults, but you wouldn't need to that for every single case
chill
except ubuntu isn't a desktop-only distro
you might also not be considering corporate workstation in an intranet
it's also a microkernel, double ew
some nuisances are not so ignorable
that's subjective, so i'm not going to question your preferences
however, i have both gnome and plasma installed in all my systems and there are some things i'd like to point out from my experience
having duplicate apps all over the place, each with their own settings, so if you forget which one you are using, you might find yourself spending more time in settings than desire
the defaults are DE-specific, so usually you won't need to think about this, as gnome defaults to gnome apps and plasma defaults to kde apps. it's not common for something like gnome's file browser to open pdfs in okular or vice-versa -- though it can happen sometimes
the one time this was a problem to me was when, for a while, opening the directory containing a downloaded file in firefox while running plasma would open nautilus instead of dolphin. but then it got fixed on its own
i'm not saying problems can't happen with that system, just that they don't happen all the time for everything
switching DE's can cause browsers to log you out of everything
i have never seen that happen. the closest i got to this was getting kicked from slack because i forgot the keyring password
then there's the fact that some use gtk and some use qt so title bar buttons and program menu's can become confusing and ununified
but that doesn't have much to do with different DEs being installed, does it? the toolkit choice is entirely up to the application
can these things be ignored? sure, some people can. some cannot, such as people with ADHD for example
not to invalidate anyone's experience with adhd, but, for the record, i have adhd and this has never been an issue to me
my point is: having multiple DEs installed is pretty common and fully well supported. nearly every single session manager supports it (the only one i can think of that doesn't support that is xdm). there are some small issues that crop up from time to time which might put you off from doing it (which is fine), but this is not some crazy kind of fringe unsupported configuration
and you can uninstall everything from the other DE anyway, so there's literally no problem about trying it out
debian is boring as hell and that's why i love it
debian updates usually go pretty smooth in my personal experience. last time i had an annoying problem with the nvidia proprietary drivers, but that was an exception (i had no such problem in previous updates) and i think it was my fault
unless they have stable instead of bookworm on their sources.list
i made a spreadsheet of debian release dates, graphed the days between releases and calculated a probable release date based on last release date + average days between releases* +/- 1 std deviation
if i remember correctly, bookworm was within my predicted range (apr-aug 2023, i think) and we're now fully within trixie's predicted range
*before etch (4.0), release intervals varied wildly, so I don't take those into consideration
that sounds like a bug. check bugs.kde.org to see if anyone else has reported something similar to this. if not, report it
eu fui testar o old lemmy esses dias e percebi que, no all (que é a listagem padrão do old lemmy) ele mostra conteúdo marcado como nsfw explicitamente. e não demora muito pra aparecer: na imagem que eu mandei, não precisa nem descer a página. não tem como remover isso na configuração. o melhor que dá pra fazer é mudar a listagem pra local ou subscribed
só um aviso pra quem por um acaso queira abrir o old lemmy no trabalho não ser demitido
please dump any small browsers you know about, i'd like to try them out
the two i can think of are emacs's eww and links (text mode). eww has been surprisingly useful, even without js support and extremely barebones html rendering
this is eww:
and this is links:
sadly, neither is able to login to lemmy, but I was able to login to mastodon through brutaldon
EDIT: ooh, i forgot about lynx (not links). also command-line. it managed to successfully login to lemmy:
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i heard about that. sadly my gpu is so old the latest driver that supports it is the 470 driver