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Head_on_a_Stick wrote:That's not a good idea, the new package versions in buster may have different configuration methods
Agree fully. Mixing DEs with a common Home will cause even more problems. If you want common access to data it's better to put that all on a separate partition or drive and than mount that drive/partition to a folder in /home on startup, using fstab.
As for the original question for this thread, XFCE, after MATE continued to suffer panel crashes. I don't particularly like XFCE, I think that it needs quite a lot of streamlining from the rather raw state in which it is initially presented, certainly in Debian, whereas MATE is usable with little extra configuration OOTB. XFCE in MX is a much better example of how it should be.
Head_on_a_Stick wrote:That's not a good idea, the new package versions in buster may have different configuration methods
Agree fully. Mixing DEs with a common Home will cause even more problems. If you want common access to data it's better to put that all on a separate partition or drive and than mount that drive/partition to a folder in /home on startup, using fstab.
As for the original question for this thread, XFCE, after MATE continued to suffer panel crashes. I don't particularly like XFCE, I think that it needs quite a lot of streamlining from the rather raw state in which it is initially presented, certainly in Debian, whereas MATE is usable with little extra configuration OOTB. XFCE in MX is a much better example of how it should be.
That's exactly what I am doing and I meant (should have been more clear, I guess). /home is a separate partition and the same user(xxx)/home directory (/home/xxx) is used in both Stretch/Buster. No issues so far. Tried the same with Xubuntu, ran into multiple issues. Dropped the idea and created a new user in Xubuntu - which is only there for backup reasons. Stretch is Primary OS for now, till Buster gets released officially.
I agree with sunrat and KBD47. I'm using KDE with Buster.
The menu makes life easier that other desktops, easy to configure and customize.
I do a minimal install with no desktop, then add kde-plasma-desktop and remove the unneeded things like kwalletmanager.
XFCE, I use this for years and no issues so far on Buster.
Laptops: HP 250 G6 i3 7th gen + Lenovo: Debian Testing XFCE
HP based chromebooks: Debian Testing and other variations
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KDE (I never used gnome).
But just KDE minimal light desktop installation (as light as possible / without recommended packages : no akonadi / no kmail etc etc )
dpkg -l plasma* | grep ^ii
ii plasma-dataengines-addons additional data engines for Plasma
ii plasma-desktop Tools and widgets for the desktop
ii plasma-desktop-data Tools and widgets for the desktop data files
ii plasma-framework Plasma Runtime components
ii plasma-integration Qt Platform Theme integration plugins for KDE Plasma
ii plasma-nm Plasma5 networkmanager library.
ii plasma-pa Plasma 5 Volume controller
ii plasma-runner-installer KRunner plugin for installing packages
ii plasma-runners-addons additional runners for Plasma 5 and Krunner
ii plasma-widgets-addons additional widgets for Plasma 5
ii plasma-workspace Plasma Workspace for KF5
Will stick with gnome, though I've never particularly liked it. Simple reasons: less dependency problems and a larger selection of compatible software. Stability is the most important factor to me.
TC
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