| 25 Mar 2025 |
 hexa | drop one desktop environment from the graphical iso 😛 | 18:38:57 |
 emily | feel free to convince K900 if you want to drop Plasma :p https://matrix.to/#/!CTCrFzsBPYmDLmrja4:0upti.me/$QSgiZw5nbrP9TJQv6DUrbFSCEoRFTL-n6BDQJiW_nRw?via=nixos.org&via=matrix.org&via=tchncs.de | 19:35:30 |
| emily | (dropping GNOME would not help much) | 19:35:35 |
| hexa | @k900 wdyt | 19:38:14 |
| emily | well K900 didn't seem keen in the linked conversation | 19:38:36 |
| emily | 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 | 19:38:56 |
| emily | though less weird than with a distro where trying out a different DE is harder than on NixOS | 19:39:04 |
| emily | it also means that users where Mutter has compositor bugs KWin doesn't on their hardware cannot install | 19:39:43 |
 K900 | In reply to @hexa:lossy.network
@k900 wdyt Eat my entire ass | 19:45:31 |
| 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 |
 VladimÃr ÄŒunát | I guess adding those wouldn't blow the combined ISO too much? 🤣 | 20:22:21 |
| VladimÃr ÄŒunát | (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 |
| 26 Mar 2025 |
 Mic92 | They shouldn't be added to the cache in the first place | 08:47:06 |
