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. * It is wasting the network traffic and bandwidth for both users and openSUSE servers, because not all the software in the ISO image used by users. Most users usually installs only one DE. 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. These problems are also mentioned by other people: * https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/459865-Surprised-by-size-o f-distro-iso-download * In one review of openSUSE that I read last year in a famous website, the author pointed to this problem. To solve mentioned problems and to attract more users to openSUSE, this project should provide separate ISO image for each DE, exactly like Fedora: https://spins.fedoraproject.org/ Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org