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different distribution fights. Different display manager/desktop environment/window manager users fight.
Why can't they just left (stupid, means user that want a friendly and lagging desktop environment; ignore this word) users to use things like gnome and kde and other desktop environment, they can still use their wm for maximum productivity and performance.
This is a very stupid fight.
Look at the BSDs, OpenBSD users can laugh on FreeBSD for having to support wine, running ia32 binaries on amd64, broken at securelevel 1, having so many extension for ls(1). FreeBSD can laugh on OpenBSD for using giant lock (doesn't take advantage of multiprocessor machine), ...
These are each operating system's issue
But they don't fight for that.
https://www.bsdfrog.org/pub/events/my_bsd_sucks_less_than_yours-full_paper.pdf
By calling them stupid you are actively participating in the fight yourself
There are very valid reasons both for and against WMs
Whole point of Linux is allowing user choice, why get on people's cases about what they can and can't use
Sorry :)
In my mind I call them "stupid" because I personally thinks desktop environments are "stupid". Sometimes this flew on the keyboard. Sorry for that.
A better word to describe those de/wm is "crap". Just my personal thought.
Crap is still insulting them though, personally I think gnome is really good. I use hypr and love it but it's also taken a gargantuan amount of effort to get it how I like it which not everyone wants, and before I switched gnome was doing perfectly fine
KDE and cinnamon I'm sure are similar boats, though I haven't daily driven either of those yet
No one wants their software to be called a "crap", so I will not puke out again.
But many people doesn't take "personally". I wanted to write a post about this a few days ago but the op posted the meme.
"Linux users" cared about what their desktop environment looks so much.
This is my .cwmrc:
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What's your window manager?