Ventoy

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2021 15:04:30 +0100, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

Not about Ventoy but still about desktops:

>I tried to raise the idea at SUSE that the company should just let go
>most of the GNOME fanatics it acquired when Novell bought Ximian in
>2003, and switch back to KDE as the default desktop. There's still way
>more support for KDE inside the company. Part of my argument was that
>with both Ubuntu and Fedora being GNOME-centric, it would be a way to
>demarcate the company.
>
>I don't see where else Ubuntu could have gone after that disastrous
>Hackernews discussion, though.

I have this Ubuntu *Server* 20.04.3 on a new Lenovo PC, which was created by
migration from an older 18.04 LTS installation on a 10 years old eMachine PC.
(See longish threads on this list starting about 6 weeks ago about it if you are
interested)


Now I would like to get a *slim* desktop on it and I have found these
instructions on how to do it:

KDE:
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Ubuntu_20.04&p=desktop&f=2

Cinnamon:
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Ubuntu_20.04&p=desktop&f=3

Which one should I choose and are the install instructions valid?

I would like to get the "normal" set of GUI based tools including GParted but
none of the big "productivity" applications, if that is avoidable.

And I like to have a main menu and be able to configure the location of a
"taskbar" etc.

-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden