Re: how to switch a Debian buster system from systemd to sys-v init
> That's right. "Modern" desktop environments (Gnome and derivatives,
> most probably also KDE) depend these days on systemd. I don't know
> how hard those dependencies are -- you'd want to look at Devuan [2]
> [3] to see how far they went, if at all, into fixing this.
The Devuan default desktop is Xfce. Cinnamon, KDE, LXQt and MATE are
available from tasksel during installation and a number of other
graphical environments are available post-install.
https://devuan.org/os/
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