Summary

  Subject:

Run Rocky Linux as a Desktop OS: References

  Updated:

2023-06-15

  Author:

Tim Hammond ([email protected])

  Operating Systems:

Rocky 8

Rocky 9

  Background:

This guide was written to help users get setup on a desktop computer and either run KDE or Xfce. There are a host of other applications that are installed as well.

This guide's was origanlly targeted for Fedora 36, but after testing, I came to the following conclustions:

  1. Fedora is too leading and bleeding for my taste.
  2. Secure CRT will only work on CentOS/Rocky 8 and BELOW. They have dropped all support for RHEL based distros.
  3. VMware console is now supported on RHEL 9 based distros.
  4. I didn't want to get into supporting more operating systems (Windows (desktop and server), Rocky, and Ubuntu).

Due to the length of the content, I opted to break the article into the following sections:

  1. Rocky Desktop: OS Install
  2. Rocky Desktop: Desktop Environment
  3. Rocky Desktop: Drivers and Hardware
  4. Rocky Desktop: Additional Software (Email, Office Suite, etc)
  5. Rocky Desktop: Helpful Commands
  6. Rocky Desktop: References
 

Table of Contents

References

Distro Research

Slow Boot

Window Manger Setup

Xfce Customization

Package Manager Comparison

Linux Mail Client Setup

Google Contacts API setup

TigerVNC Setup

Misc Installer How Tos

Mount Windows NTFS Partition

Printing

Cambridge Magic 200 DAC