On 2017-04-21 16:01, Farhad Mohammadi Majd wrote:
Hello, first of all I must say this request is not related to "default DE" issue.
From many years ago up to current release, openSUSE provides a 4.4GB ISO image for DVD and offline installation, and one Net Install ISO image less than 100MB.
This approach has many big problems:
4.4GB image: ===========
* It is very huge and hard to get for most people specially who are in un-developed and in-development countries who have the low-bandwidth and limited-traffic internet service.
No, it is not true for "most people". Maybe for many people. However, from personal experience, when I had low bandwidth (1Mbps) I preferred to use this install method. Why? Because I could download the DVD slowly, even if it took a week, then install a lot of software in several computers without using Internet at all during the install.
Net Install image: =================
* It needs to internet and huge data to get for *every* install. If users want to install openSUSE on 2-3 different systems or on different partitions of Hard Disk, they need to internet and huge data to get for every installation.
Not true. The download data is the minimal of any method, as you only download exactly what you are going to install. Of course, the download is repeated for each machine - so use the DVD install instead.
To solve mentioned problems and to attract more users to openSUSE, this project should provide separate ISO image for each DE, exactly like Fedora:
Let Fedora go their way, and we our way :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)