On Tue 04 Nov 2025 at 10:31:00 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 13:46:12 -0000, Bigsy Bohr wrote:
On 2025-11-04, Greg Wooledge wrote:
If "Debian Desktop" is selected, then the installer will choose a Desktop
Environment *for* you. If the installer is the standard one, it will
choose GNOME. In theory, this selection could change some day, but
it has been GNOME for a very long time.
No, I believe I ticked Desktop Environment (?) and LXDE in the
installer. How this differs from only ticking LXDE, I don't know. But I
know I'm not running Gnome.
[...]>> If "Debian Desktop" is selected AND NONE OF THE OTHER DESKTOPS ARE
SELECTED, then the installer will choose a Desktop Environment *for* you.
If the installer is the standard one, it will choose GNOME.
You convinced me that I may be wrong with my warning to uncheck Debian
desktop when the intention is to install a DE other than GNOME.
My reading of the initial question is if the following variants in
installer result in some difference for installed system (unsure
concerning precise labels)
- [X] Debian desktop
- [ ] GNOME
- ... (others are not checked)
vs.
- [ ] Debian desktop
- [X] GNONE
- ... (others are not checked)
With the root node referred to as "Debian" and another one as "Debian Gnome"
On 04/11/2025 23:17, David Wright wrote:
apt-get install task-lxde-desktop
apt-get install task-lxde-desktop task-desktop
apt-get install task-desktop task-lxde-desktop
Without looking in the installer code it is not convincing for me.
Installer may execute some additional commands (for user convenience).
Perhaps instead of
- [X] Debian desktop
- [ ] GNOME
- [X] KDE
I used
- [X] Debian desktop
- [ ] GNOME
- [ ] KDE
expecting to get some common packages (e.g. desktop-file-utils),
branding like wallpapers, etc., expecting no DE packages. I got GNOME
despite it was unchecked. Installing new instances is not regular
activity for me. Maybe next time I will try parent + some non GNOME
checkbox to be sure.
From my point of view the menu should be without the parent checkbox:
- Desktop environment
- [X] GNOME (recommended)
- [ ] KDE
- ...
