Judging by the Wikipedia pages for CentOS and Rocky Linux, it will be coming with the GNOME Shell as the default desktop. However, I was wondering if it may be an idea to offer MATE or Xfce as alternatives during setup. Just a thought, but it may be good for attracting users and companies with less …

Hi, The other point that thread makes, which I agree with. Is that rocky is a 1:1 replacement for centos 8. So whats available from the centos baseOS repo, will the same in the rocky BaseOS repo. KDE should remain part of epel. Thanks Tom.

Hi, Please see a similar discussion for KDE: [image] Please include KDE in Rocky! Rocky Linux General I may self really dislike Gnome. RHEL 8/CentOS 8 is leaking of KDE. We use the “KDE Plasma Workspaces” form EPEL. Works well. Since CentOS8 will die, the existence of…

Thanks, but my discussion was about more lightweight desktops, so the two threads should stay separate.

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tjdoyle March 9, 2021, 9:51pm 2

Hi,

Please see a similar discussion for KDE:

Thanks Tom.

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