Operation Manual
1.9 Desktop Selection
In openSUSE, you can choose from various desktops. The major ones, KDE and
GNOME, are powerful graphical desktop environments similar to Windows. This step
is skipped when installing from a LiveCD, since this medium is already precongured
to either use KDE or GNOME.
If you prefer a different desktop, choose Other for more options. The XFCE Desktop
and the LXDE Desktop are fast and lightweight desktop environments suitable for
modest hardware. With Minimal X Window, install a graphical window manager that
allows for running stand-alone X applications and console windows but does not provide
the usual integrated desktop functionality. In Minimal Server Selection (Text Mode),
only console terminals are available.
Figure 1.5:
Desktop Selection
1.10 Suggested Partitioning
Dene a partition setup for openSUSE in this step. In most cases a reasonable scheme
that can be accepted without change is proposed. If a hard disk containing only Windows
FAT or NTFS partitions is selected as the installation target, YaST proposes to shrink
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