<story><title>Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTE1NTk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleitz</author><text>This is what I love about linux on the desktop, on one thread we&apos;ve got serious complaints about usability, on another thread we&apos;re switching window managers because it won&apos;t fit on a CD.&lt;p&gt;A CD? In 2012? Windows and OS X haven&apos;t fit on a CD in almost 10 years and you can barely find a copy of OS X on DVD. Yet the primary concern on linux is not usability but whether it fits on an install CD.&lt;p&gt;I think there might be higher priority concerns than whether a user is able to install a modern operating system on the Pentium MMX &amp;#38; 8X CD drive they found in the dumpster.</text></comment>
<story><title>Debian Now Defaults To Xfce Desktop</title><url>http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTE1NTk</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>sanxiyn</author><text>Since all desktop environments in Debian are maintained with equal commitments and you can install any of them easily, change of &quot;default&quot; desktop environment is a rather symbolic gesture.&lt;p&gt;Technically, the reason for the change is that GNOME won&apos;t fit in a CD without a diet and Xfce will. I am not sure how many people install Debian with CD (not DVD, not USB, not network install, etc.) though...</text></comment>