On Sat, Sep 12, 2020 at 06:50:05PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Would sysctl set-default text.target display the dm on startup? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/systemd#Targets There isn't a "text.target" as far as I'm aware. multi-user.target will skip the DM if one is installed. graphical.target is the default in Debian, and runs the DM if one is installed, or skips it if none is installed.