May I chime in? I'm currently installing a squeeze system, didn't bother using expert mode or fishing around for extra commands, and started the install, expecting to get a choice when selecting "desktop environment" in tasksel, and didn't really want to install a big desktop because it's a slow virtual machine on a USB disk.
I totally agree with Stephane Ascoet that newbies are hardly likely to install Debian by themselves anyway. But even if they do, if Gnome is marked as default and there are no confusing descriptions (at most, I think they should say resource heavy/resource light), I don't think accepting the default would be a problem for beginners. So I vote ask everyone installing a desktop by default. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1567599.aTpqlUcuQj@l10036
