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Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-gnome-or-go-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Debian will switch back to using GNOME as the default desktop environment for the upcoming Debian 8.0 Jessie release, due out in 2015. The decision is based on accessibility and systemd integration, along with a host of other reasons. Debian switched away from GNOME back in 2012 .

4 of 403 comments (clear)

  1. Cinnamon by DivineKnight · · Score: 3, Informative

    Come, join us, Cinnamon is what you want.

  2. Re:How many of you are still using Gnome? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    You don't have to drag to unlock. Press Escape or just typing your password.

  3. Re:Why not KDE by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unity is a good choice for Mac OS X users because of some similarities.

    Clearly you've never used OS X for any amount of time to make such a ridiculous claim. Unity is almost nothing like OS X beyond a couple of superficial similarities that, outside of the left hand buttons, don't even functionally act the same as the OS X counterpart it is trying to mimic. Long-time OS X users tend to despise Unity for its superficial cargo cult look.

  4. Re:What happened to Debian? by styrotech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Getting bullied by Canonical makes loads of sense, but I don't like it one bit.

    You need to look into it deeper. It didn't happen that way at all.

    Canonical wanted Debian to pick upstart (naturally as it was their software). Once Debian chose systemd though and with RHEL already switching away from upstart to systemd, Canonical felt that being left as the only distro still using upstart wasn't tenable any more. Staying aligned with Debian was more important than getting what they wanted.