Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: ... > Go with Gnome Desktop. Gnome is easy and friendly. > > Also i am using Gnome Desktop under Debian 11 Bullseye.
:) i'm running testing with bits of unstable and just tagging along on this thread because i feel a bit chatty this morning so a bit of story time and preferences from my experiences so far with Debian and desktop environments. if we're going to plug a different desktop with a simple interface (as indicated by the OP) i'll put one in for the MATE desktop. it is fairly consistent for many years and a lot more simple for my pea brain to understand and get things done. the other aspect i was after was being able to handle lesser versions of hardware that could at times not do as much as i might have wanted but it did work ok until i could finally upgrade my hardware. having spent many hours years ago when various desktops were being developed to learn KDE and get my desktop set up exactly how i liked it and then they changed it to something i didn't like and so i switched to GNOME and went through the large amount of work to get that set up and how i liked it and again had that desktop change to something i did not like again (in both the KDE and GNOME cases it was also using more resources than my older machine at that time could reliably handle). so then MATE came along and has done exactly what i wanted it to do. stay simple and not mess up my layouts and preferences too much as it updates. thankfully i have not had to do much more fiddling around or searching for another desk- top since. i have not had to try the other more simple desktops, but i probably could manage it, after all a simple console text terminal was adequate for many years on a bunch of different machines through 15 years of work even if i also could have multiple terminals open on a Sun machine. thank ghods for a good local network all those years (one advantage of working at the university back then). i really was spoiled by that and did not really appreciate it until i was offline more and forced to use dialup lines and modems all over again. > Sincerely, Byung-Hee :) songbird
