martin f krafft wrote: > Personal attacks aside, would you mind sharing what I missed? Does > the desktop task do anything more than pull in some packages and let > them configure themselves? Will my experience differ if I install > the desktop task, or `apt-get install x-window-system kde gnome` > directly? How? Yes, the Debian installer does a lot of things during the installation of Debian with the desktop task that you will not get if you just install packages with apt. One example is that our X needs read-edid and mdetect to be installed before it is even preconfigured for hardware detection to work properly. -- see shy jo
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