Well, if you're a user of said desktop environment, it's a useful signal that the program will at least attempt to fit in with the look and feel, may possibly integrate better, and can be expected to use less RAM because it uses components you've already loaded.
Agreed. The last thing you want is to have to debug those weird "it worked on my desktop" issues that come from having a really weirdly configured system
Please don't get me wrong. Is this for people who works on non-desktop OSes? I mean what's the point of a command line task manager on a desktop? RAM usage?
What concrete advantage does a desktop environment offer me over just running a window manager like dwm? I've tried it both ways, and all the desktops seem to do is take up resources while offering little in return. Can you describe a significant way that your desktop improves your computing life?
Never understood the point of "a desktop" because of this. Why bother to have programs you only use on-demand just sitting there? The same thing, that I find more useful, can be achieved by actually running the programs you need (through a run menu) and just having them exist. Windows are my desktop icons, I don't need what I don't use.
Am I the only one who virtually never uses windows desktop? I am either in particular app, or just click "start", type a few letters and run what I need. My desktop is just a background when nothing is running. Windows 8 new desktop might make it useful again.
I suppose most of the use is because they don't use the DE itself that much, it's mostly just a launcher for the stuff they use. It's mostly full-screen IDE on one monitor, browser and terminal on the other.
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