Most environments will have two packages, like: cinnamon-core - Cinnamon desktop environment - essential components cinnamon-desktop-environment - Cinnamon

Most environments will have two packages, like: cinnamon-core - Cinnamon desktop environment - essential components cinnamon-desktop-environment - Cinnamon desktop environment - full desktop with extra components If you just want to try out the environment without all the extra stuff, you'd prefer the first package over the 2nd.