Yeah I get that. GNOME is a horrible big software. I would not count is as "basic desktop", because it is so big, buggy and dependencies are out of control. Bas

Yeah I get that. GNOME is a horrible big software. I would not count is as "basic desktop", because it is so big, buggy and dependencies are out of control. Basic desktop, I mean something like Xfce, with modular components and minimal dependencies so the desktop system is simple and unixy. You would still have the option to install GNOME on such a system, if only GNOME developers made a canonical version of GNOME that would be modular, and would install on any clean Linux system with Xorg or Wayland.