Ventoy

[Brian]

if you like Ubuntu there is is a basic desktop option in the installer.

Brian

On 11/20/2021 12:59 PM, Bo Berglund wrote:
> 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.
>