On Tuesday 18 January 2022 16:36:34 Mike Bird wrote: > Hi Chris and welcome to the TDE mailing list. > > On Tue January 18 2022 16:15:54 c. marlow wrote: > > I am currently on Debian 11, and I am thinking about trying TDE for the > > very first time. > > > > I would like to know, what is the difference between TDE 14.x and TDE > > 3.5.x and which one is the best? > > TDE 14.x is newer and better and supports Debian 11 Bullseye. There are > also TDE versions similar to Debian Testing and Debian Unstable but I > recommend you start with 14.x. > > > And also, what would be the repo's be that I need to add via the > > command line to get TDE? > > You should add the 4 lines shown here with bullseye as distro release name: > https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Inst >ructions#Configure_the_package_manager > > In addition to the main repo those builddeps lines provide a few support > libraries. > > That page also explains how to import the signing key and install Trinity. > > > And.. Do I need to install KDE first, and then TDE? > > TDE is designed to work alongside KDE if required but you'll probably find > it less confusing at first if you do NOT install KDE. > > > --Mike Unless you already are a regular KDE user and depend on it, I would avoid it if possible, as it tends to mess up or conflict with TDE now and then. The newer KDE 4/5 does not play well with others. However ... when I first installed TDE on Debian, I did install KDE5 and go all through it getting it to work as well as possible (e.g., not to connect to the Internet automatically, to get my settings functional). I had used an Debian installation disc with non-free packages, and KDE Plasma was the default desktop. Since I was new to Debian, and wasn't quite up to installing from a shell and using only TDE, this did make my transition (from Kubuntu to Debian) a little smoother. Nowadays, if I must use another desktop for the installation, then I would say that either the XFCE slim desktop or the MATE desktop are preferable, as they seem to interfere less than KDE. But after that, I use only TDE. Felix Miata has his own method of installing TDE only by a shell, but that takes some dedication and work; I will move in that direction when I can have two working machines in the same location, wherever I am living then. For now, with only one machine, I always just want to get my machine back up and running, and get back to my own work. I hope this helps you to frame your own situation, so that you can decide how to approach installation. After I had done it a few times, though, I could do a fresh installation in my sleep. Bill Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
