• demonsword@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    maybe your experience is different from mine, I’ve only seen headless RHEL servers… never saw anyone using it as a desktop distro

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      1 year ago

      Some people would set up servers with a DE, and use it to manage them.

      In one of my past projects, I was working with a financial company and they’d use one of those VMWare with web inferface. We set up a Debian system; and because they didn’t know any better, have the default GNOME installed.

      I remeber hating it so much, especially that they’re slow due to resource constraint. We were allocating 4 GB of RAM, which was all we could get due to being in early phase. You’d think 4 GB is enough for a server, but not when it’s running GNOME!

      If it were up to me, I’d go headless. However, not everyone is into that, I guess. In hindsight, I’d probably install XFCE instead. KDE would be taking quite a bit of disk space, but it’d run surprisingly light.