On Wed, 14 May 2025 12:22:53 -0500 Gregory Forster <debian4g...@gmail.com> 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.? > Looks OK. As long as disc space isn't tight, and that's unlikely these days. You can play around much more than that: not everyone uses a desktop environment at all, just a window manager. I assume you have Synaptic installed, search for window manager. The desktops use them, so you should have a few installed already. Many can be used directly, without a desktop environment. Fewer resources are used that way, but you will miss all the bells and whistles arranger around (usually) the edges of your screen. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Window_manager Arch Linux, by the way, is based on Debian and has some excellent documentation, most of which applies to Debian itself. -- Joe
