Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

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Subject: Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?
From: Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 07:47:17 -0500
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On Fri, Nov 5, 2021, 7:21 AM Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:

> Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?

....

Right now, for the regular official installers (and also for the
unofficial installer with non-free firmware), that default task happens
to be GNOME.

With the "Live" installers, the default is different.

And if I may ask: Why is it different? If there is a reason or two.

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