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I would say those aren't really desktop environments. They provide the bare minimum for window management and compositing, but not much more. Desktop environments encompass much more than that, like managing file type associations, and protocol handling.


Some users might need that. And even expect it. I don’t need it. I know the tools to open the file types or XDG is configured with default apps.




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