by Wheelerof4te » While runing a minimal openbox, fluxbox or similar WM systems is impractical for most "casual" users, ----snip----
Apology, first , for my ignorance,...but I fail to understand this reasoning,...
I am no "super user" nor expert, which is why I have not used SID or "testing",
But like wise, as a casual user, I find the simplicity and the way it "just works", in a WM very practical, and soooo much more reliable then any of the DE's I tried.
by Wheelerof4te » 2. Choose one of the "core" versions of popular DE (gnome-core, kde-plasma-desktop etc.) You will be able to install other packages, as the need arises.
I think some of this is just opinion, but again since I am not very advanced, and
not a " super user", I used to have so many problems, with crashes and the
"Oh no something went wrong" messages.
Any way, once I learned to avoid anything that pulls in Gnome packages, and the DE packages that I don't need or want in my system, life got much simpler and easier, ...
Chromium, was another thing,... and when I started over with a minimal install, and a clean base, NO GNOME, No Chromium, NO Libreoffice,... NO Gimp,...etc..
To my surprise, everything "just works", all the hassles and headaches of a overly complex and bloated system,...it was refreshing, and I have never looked back.
But then again, I am not any kind of "Super User", I suppose for the super users, and experts, 2. Choose one of the "core" versions of popular -----snip--
it is necessary to do all of this. If I was a secretary, or student I can see how some of the Libre Office programs might be necessary, but I am not.
This is one nice, base system that will pull most of the needed misc software also.
Not a "base" system anymore, but a full blown DE, Office Sweet, that has pulled in all sorts of "misc software", that I don't need and have no clue as to what it is for, but when it causes a crash, nothing else works either and since I am not a Super User, nor expert, and do not have the time, patience nor desire to sort out all the problems,.. a re-install , and just installing a simple, clean "base system", with a WM , editor, Mplayer, and a few simple tools I use,
is more suitable to me,... of course we all have different needs and tastes.