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Re: OFFLIST: Gnome desktop removal messed up machine



On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 06:10:01AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2021-08-05 4:06 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote:
> > Steve.
> > At least Debian works better in this old Mac best of all else I've
> > tried. Debian is very instructive, which in itself is an argument to use
> > it for a newbie in IT & Linux.
> > BR,
> > Gunnar.
> > PS.
> > And level of patience, respect & even humility is a bit higher here than
> > the smaller, also quick response, helpsite I used in another Linux
> > distro. That bit is necessary for me to keep focus.
> > DS.
> > 
> > On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, 22:03 Steve Litt, <slitt@troubleshooters.com
> > <mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     Hi Gunnar,
> > 
> >     Gnome depends very much on systemd, and probably vice versa. It doesn't
> >     surprise me at all that Debian doesn't work without Gnome, or at least
> >     without a lot of hoop-jumping.
> > 
> Total false statement and non-sense.
> 
> There's many and many more Debian server running without Gnome. Some of
> them don't even have a video card connected to a monitor.

FWIW: my laptop runs wth SysV init, no Gnome (actually no desktop
environment), but with X and a window manager (Fvwm). It's not
always "obvious", but it is definitely doable. Debian's happy.

Cheers
 - t

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