Stop, summer time. It's time to put some bling in our desktop. Hence, this tutorial showing how to transform the default Rocky Linux 8 distro into a perfect home usage system, including additional software repositories, new icons and fonts, extra software like Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Skype, VLC, GIMP, LyX, and others, NTFS utilities, Python and Java runtimes, HD display scaling, customization, ergonomic changes, some other tips and tricks, and more. Enjoy. https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/rocky-linux-8-perfect-desktop.html Cheers, Mrk
They just came out with the stable version. AlmaLinux, its competitor, came out with it in the spring. If you don't care for the RHEL clones, OpenSUSE 15.3 lets you use KDE and the Leap edition is now aligned wih SUSE Enterprise so you no longer have to pay to get enterprise grade software. I find I'm liking Pop OS new Cosmic Desktop. Its the way GNOME should have been out of the box. I only installed the Places and the Window title extensions. Prettified it with a Mac Mojave theme and Ubuntosh icons. Its a sweet desktop well on the way to becoming more than just stock vanilla GNOME. Wish the folks at System76 all the best with trying to become the new Linux Apple.
You can install KDE on AlmaLinux/RockyLinux. Just remember to install and enable PowerTools in the epel repository or you won't have a KDE desktop. Discover is missing and if you want a graphical software manager, dnfdragora has to be installed from a third party repository. Cheers.
