On 4/22/23 17:12, Jeremy Ardley wrote:
On 23/4/23 04:49, Peter Ehlert wrote:
Be careful and don't include any Gnome/"Debian desktop".
When you select a desktop install with standard Debian you don't have
lot of control over what is installed. And that's even with an
advanced install.
I assume you are seeing a list of desktops to select from during the
install...
"standard Debian" (or whatever it's called) is kinda Gnome Lite.
it's automatically selected = uncheck that box!
Personally I use only Mate but it's riddled with Gnome components that
I can't easily remove. For instance the Gnome NetworkManager widget is
installed despite me not using NetworkManager and I can't find a way
to remove it.
I too only use Mate.
to be fair Gnome creates a lot of Good packages that are used in almost
all desktop environments that are not actually the Gnome Desktop.
My Mate has a dozen or two with "gnome" in the package name
On other O/S you could (can?) generate a 'packing list' of all the
components you wanted to install and use that to build your system. I
expect Debian 11 has that ability but it's not something that is
immediately obvious.
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Jeremy
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