On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:18:57 -0400 Catherine Gramze <rhia...@mac.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 17, 2017, at 10:28 AM, Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> > > wrote: > > > > That would presume that the majority of users of the installer > > wanted to install a desktop environment. This is not necessarily > > true even for beginners, on say, server machines. > > Beginners are installing server systems as their first experience > with Linux? I think not. Most people don't ever touch a server in > their entire life. You might be surprised. I was given a Red Hat 5.2 disc to play with, and I bought a Linux magazine. It contained an article about compiling kernels, so I tried it. It was much later that I found this was considered an advanced task. I tried a Debian, possibly Potato, I'm not sure. I certainly didn't get it working, and I can remember an entire screenful of mouse configuration options, none of which turned out to be correct. I went to one of the early Mandrakes, did a couple of LFS builds, and didn't go back to Debian until Sarge, which became my home server... my current server is a direct descendent of this installation. My LFS was pure command-line, I was bored enough by the compilation business that I never did try a GUI, and in those days the Linux desktop was more a curiosity than a tool. -- Joe