Selecting a Desktop, is it a Big ASK?
I am not talking about Compiz, Wayland and Tiling Window Managers. They are not at all my interests.
Yes selecting is a desktop may be a big ask, due to many reasons.
Desktop is a Desktop and there is nothing more in it.
It has no applications and can be compared to a dress one wears. A dress one can wear as one pleases but Desktop is Fixed one cannot change but its front end appearance.
There is a caveat here, each desktop by default has a bundle of applications that goes with it except one big application, LibreOffice which everybody try to bundle.
I prefer desktops that does not bundle LibreOffice.
REBORN OS
On that specification, I really like REBORN OS and its Gnome Desktop.
It is minimal and out of 18.5GB /root partition it leaves me 10GB to add any application I need and 4 in particular.
VLC does to take much space but number of plug in are staggering
Audacity has almost every audio format.
GIMP is fantastic for photo editing.
Blender and blender takes the most space up to 1GB in total.
LibreOffice is a low priority for me since I use AbiWord for my book writing for ages, in fact from Microsoft Windows era.
Let me finish with Reborn OS, I installed all of the above and a few more and like Kdenlive and KODI and I have 2.5GB left of my root partition. This is because i have also used big /var and /opt partitions.
Desktops
I have been using Gnome of Debian for ages and I have had no problems at all and i stick with it.
Out of the lot below i only like Cutefish.
I have Plasma Desktop for comparison but rarely use it. The simple reason it takes a lot of time booting.
I want the start up brisk with line of text telling me what is going on behind before booting. Only Debian Gnome does it.
Gnome distribution is out and it has no Synaptic package manager.
The most beautiful KDE Desktop belongs to ARCH based BlueStar Linux and I have it installed in my NUC.
KDE desktop guys are still struggling and it is still RAW package stage and one cannot install it.
I found a ARCH based KDE desktop which was sleek like Trinity Desktop but it ruined by hard disk including EFI partition.
It is called KaOS.
Please do not use it.
1. Plasma desktop consumed about 500MB.
2. Cutefish which I really like consumed 300MB
3. Cosmic desktop about 500MB
4. KODI about 100 to 200MB
5. Kdenlive may be 500MB or more on top of Dolphin.
6. Cinnamon only about 50MB since it is built on top of Gnome
I did not try Budgie and MATE
7. DeepIn from China was a pain.
8. Anduino which is Microsoft emulation of course from China and I hate the most.
