Gregory Forster wrote: > Hi, > On Wednesdays, I volunteer at a Senior Center to teach computers. Well, > few, if any, showed up. I'm now known as, "Greg, the gadget guy." helping > people with their cell phones, computers and tablets. Well, last Wednesday, > nobody showed up for anything. So I alleviated my boredom by watching a > YouTube video on Debian 12, about 10 essentials by Linux TV. I took notes > that I applied at home. I now have flatpak/flathub installed. While in the > terminal, in the root, I typed tasksel and a popup of different GUI desktops > could be installed. I chose MATE, CINNAMON, and XFCE. So now, before I log > on, after establishing myself as the user, I click a little icon in the > lower right corner of the screen and a menu pops up, giving me different > choices of GUI desktops: GNOME, GNOME classic, MATE, CINNAMON, XFCE are the > ones I looked at. I really like GNOME classic and would like to use that as > my standard GUI desktop. Does this all sound, O.K.?
Experimentation is the best way to learn... unless you can't deal with the consequences of a bad run. So I recommend that you learn backup and restore procedures first, put those into practice, and then have fun. -dsr-
