Re: Debian: A noob query
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sam Vagni wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Lisi wrote:
>
>> A simple, accepting all defaults to make life easy, installation of Debian 6
>> or higher will give you GNOME. Anything else is more complex.
>
> That's right but please let me know 'Anything else' include(s) what?
> Like since I am downloading Debian, so it is Debian 6 only and since I
> have to install a fresh system, why would I go a version earlier than
> 6?s
>
Anything else would be installing some other desktop environment, just
window manager without extras, or even not installing anything graphical.
You can find three other popular desktop environments in installer under
advanced options/alternative desktop environments. If you want to try just
window manager, probably easiest way is to install system without any
desktop and then log in as root to install your wm with 'aptitude install
icewm' (or whichever wm you have chosen, and any extras you might
want).
Personally I've been happy with just wm, but most people seem to prefer
having some desktop.
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