Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation?
On Fri 05 Nov 2021 at 13:43:29 +0000, Tixy wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-11-05 at 07:47 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Guessing here... because a live version already has a desktop
> environment on the disk, so it make sense to default to installing that
> one. E.g. if you choose, say, the XFCE live iso, it would default to
> XFCE not Gnome. Would be a bit perverse otherwise.
I rather thought the Live images contained a copy of d-i but am not
going to download an ISO to refresh my menory. I will offer
https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-installer.en.html
I'd see it as a bit unusual for this copy to differ from the regular d-i.
--
Brian.
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