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submitted 5 months ago by LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Just got a steam deck and immediately checked out the desktop mode, and I was somewhat surprised to see KDE and pacman as opposed to GNOME and apt, I have nothing against the former though a strong preference for the latter, anyone know why Volvo went in this direction?

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[-] wfh@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Ubuntu's version of Gnome is heavily modified to look and feel like their old Unity DE though. Vanilla Gnome like in Fedora or Arch is a vastly different experience.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

Arch?

Last time I installed arch it didn't have any DE (or anything really) by default.

[-] ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Correct. But if you install gnome, it comes with default configs

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

That's true with KDE as well.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago
[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

They implied that gnome was special in some way.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

No they didn't.

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