| 25 Mar 2025 |
hexa | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org I do think it's weird to offer a choice of GNOME or Plasma but not have any way for users to try out Plasma before installing We're offering like 10 desktops during install | 20:19:03 |
Vladimír Čunát | I guess adding those wouldn't blow the combined ISO too much? 🤣 | 20:22:21 |
Vladimír Čunát | (but I don't expect it would be worth it) | 20:23:13 |
Tristan Ross | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network We're offering like 10 desktops during install Imagine if we threw COSMIC in lol /s | 20:40:21 |
emily | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network We're offering like 10 desktops during install we are? gross. | 21:11:27 |
hexa | * We're offering like 10 desktops environments during install | 21:13:46 |
hexa |  Download image.png | 21:14:07 |
hexa | basically this picker | 21:14:09 |
hexa | but we have quite a few more these days | 21:14:16 |
SigmaSquadron | Does any other distro ship both desktops as usable sessions in their live ISOs? | 21:14:26 |
emily | I doubt we have ten well-maintained DEs in the tree | 21:14:42 |
emily | In reply to @sigmasquadron:matrix.org Does any other distro ship both desktops as usable sessions in their live ISOs? many ship them as separate ISOs | 21:14:51 |
emily | we combined them for cache size reasons just days ago | 21:14:58 |
emily | it is a small change for Plasma users but a big one for GNOME | 21:15:38 |
SigmaSquadron | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org we combined them for cache size reasons just days ago Am aware, and I thought that was impressive since nobody else does that, as far as I know. | 21:15:40 |
emily | right | 21:15:51 |
emily | I don't know how many of them want to. most of them don't have a $15k/month S3 bill | 21:16:13 |
SigmaSquadron | Fedora Everything built as an offline image is probably the closest thing, but despite literally everything being in the ISO, it's not actually a usable live desktop. | 21:16:27 |
emily | is that the entire package repo? how big is that? | 21:17:24 |
SigmaSquadron | last i tried to do that was in Fedora 13 and it was about 21 GiB | 21:17:53 |