[ale] semiOT: Desktop

[Jay Lozier]

To me the DE is an environment that makes my life easier to use a 
computer when I do not want or need to use the CLI. What would more 
interesting is what do people use from homebrew to the usual suspects.

jl

On 12/02/2015 04:09 PM, James Taylor wrote:
> In a sense, isn't that all DE is?
> A number of programs (a few to a lot...) on a gui platform?
> I use my DE for everything I interact with to do my job. Anything that is interactive, I do in my DE; even terminal sessions. The servers run, well, services.
> I rarely touch access a server from the console anymore, so it is my window into my server environments, too.
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>>>> Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> 12/2/2015 3:31 PM >>>
> Everybody talks about DE for Linux. What to expect from DE?
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> My way of using Linux is WM plus browser xterm file manager. Using start
> menu or icons if available. And taskbar or alternative ALT+TAB.
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> So actually my DE is handful little programs on top of X.
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