Hi everyone I did a quick smoke-test of the live session for each amd64 isos.
Some notes: * cinnamon is in a much better shape than last time, the two biggest issues are fixed (actually ships with a default terminal emulator, no more pop-ups on login) * gnome is still good overall, but we should have disabled the setup pop-up. I had this on my radar but ran out of time. It's not a big deal, users will just have to enter that information up to 4 times (once at isolinux/grub menu, once in the live session, once again in the installer, and then again when they log in the first time). It's easy enough to exit that pop-up so for the most part I think this is a minor annoyance. * On the KDE iso, sddm doesn't autologin, so you have to type 'live' and press enter. I think I saw a bug about this, not sure if there's still time to fix it. If not, this will have to be a release note. More of a desktop-base bug, but we also have the default KDE wallpaper instead of the Debian one. Other than that the KDE live session is in great shape. * Lxde seems fine * Lxqt seems fine, still have a few pop-ups on log-in but no regressions since buster * Mate seems fine * Standard image ends up booting and working fine, but flashes a lot of different error messages about not being able to unmount /run/live/medium (my guess is plymouth hid those messages on the other images). * Xfce looks a lot nicer and the broken have been fixed, and also fine overall. So I think things that would be great to fix, but is not absolutely essential and should be mentioned in release notes if not fixed: * Fix KDE/sddm integration * Disable wizard on GNOME login * Fix live boot error messages on console I only tested some calamares installs, which seems fine, but will test i386 and d-i a bit too. In terms of Desktop live sessions I think we're looking a lot better than in the last 3 releases. I just wish we had some more time to fix these last few niggles. -Jonathan