Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)
On Monday 20 March 2017 20:29:31 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 03/20/2017 03:06 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Monday 20 March 2017 09:46:45 Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> >> I don't have an installation image locally to test this as I write, but
> >> your messages indicate that the graphical desktop options are by default
> >> not selected in the installer, regardless of which installation medium
> >> (netinst, CD, DVD) is being used. If they simply defaulted to on, but
> >> could be disabled as normal, would that not address the "noob" issue
> >> without frustrating those who know they don't want a desktop
> >> environment?
> >
> > Last time my attention wavered when I was doing a net-install I landed up
> > with Gnome. I would expect that the net installation still defaults to a
> > Gnome desktop. I will try to test this in the near future.
> >
> > Lisi
>
> If run from Jessie's DVD 1 of 13, if Desktop is selected but without a
> specific D.E. selected, you get Gnome.
The question is what you get by default if you don't actually select
anything - desktop or no desktop. I got Gnome, so got a desktop.
Lisi
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