Designing a Rocky Linux Workstation

The more I look at Rocky Linux, the more I get the impression that this was not really meant to be used as a workstation, but more as a server. Still, with a few downloaded repositories, we can probably create a fairly comfortable workstation based on Rocky Linux. What do we want from our workstation?

• Gnome desktop - It is the standard desktop for all Redhat lookalikes.
• Firefox for web browsing.
• Libre Office - This strangely does not come with Rocky,but we can download RPMs.
• Email: Thunderbird.
• A common directory tree so that we can work on the same files from all of our machines, virtual or otherwise.
• Home directory on a shared volume.
• Regular versioned backups

This bears a little thinking about. I think I will create a fresh role for the Rocky Workstation.