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Only having used Gnome, and not knowing about Xorg will this give me a basic desktop sorry for the dumb Question or should I just get gnome/kde "familiar" I would like something different
Whether you want to use gnome/KDE/Xfce/fluxbox/..., you do need to install xorg. Xorg is your X Window System Environment, on top of that you can install a Window manager or Desktop environment. Which one is a personal choice.
Xorg does come with twm, maybe too minimalistic for some, but this one is present by default.
BTW: Be prepared for a long build if you choose either Gnome or KDE (full build).
Xfce is nice, but it is not part of BLFS. You do need to be a bit creative if you want to install Xfce and there are no (blfs related) build instructions to my knowledge.
It is doable: I run Xfce on top of xorg (all build from scratch).
Xfce is nice, but it is not part of BLFS. You do need to be a bit creative if you want to install Xfce and there are no (blfs related) build instructions to my knowledge.
It is doable: I run Xfce on top of xorg (all build from scratch).
Oh I know, I did it a while back. I use gnome on my laptop, and it suites me well for the time being. I still love xfce though
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