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

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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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Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 13:10 +0100
  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" <alx.manpages@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 13:20 +0100
  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-05 13:30 +0100
    Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon installation? Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-11-05 13:50 +0100
      Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 14:50 +0100
        Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 17:10 +0100
          Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-11-05 18:10 +0100
            Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 21:20 +0100
              Re: Is "Debian desktop environment"          identical to "GNOME" upon          installation? Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2021-11-06 00:40 +0100
  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 14:30 +0100
  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Peter Ehlert <pb21a@sdi-baja.com> - 2021-11-05 15:50 +0100
    Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 20:50 +0100
  Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-11-05 17:30 +0100
    Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 17:50 +0100
      Re: Is "Debian desktop environment" identical to "GNOME" upon  installation? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-05 19:30 +0100

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