Why openSUSE uses KDE by default?

Mikhail Krutov nekoxmachina at gmail.com
Fri Apr 14 20:36:47 BST 2017


head-up to this for sake of clarification: by 50/50 I've meant
that if you combine unity, gnome and mate, and compare
it to usage of kde4+kde5, you would get +- same numbers.


Cheers,
Mike

On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 9:28 PM, Mikhail Krutov <nekoxmachina at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Heya!
>
> I've a question regarding that discussion. A part of the
> discussion is a mention of distrowatch statistics.
> So, question being:
> If I use Fedora, which defaults to Gnome, but I use Fedora
> KDE Spin, do I get counted towards GNOME user-count?
>
> Thats meaningless statistics, given that even if you install
> your system from a given installation source with given list
> of pre-installed packages, you still can switch the DE at
> runtime.
>
> Also, polls from russian linux.org.ru [1] show that it used to split
> 50/50 between gnome and kde two years ago. Given that in mind,
> if you would check most russian distributions (RUFedora Remix, etc),
> you would discover that most of them ship GNOME by-default.
>
> The question itself has a right to live, however it should not be
> asked in high-level inaccurate statistical terms. Hold a voting on
> forums or something, even this would give you better results.
>
> [1] https://www.linux.org.ru/polls/polls/11977106
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Farhad Mohammadi Majd <
> farhadbenyamin at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello, please participate in below thread:
>>
>> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2017-04/msg00147.html
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Mike
>



-- 
Cheers,
Mike
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