On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 11:48:51PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > The question is what you get by default if you don't actually select > anything - desktop or no desktop. I got Gnome, so got a desktop.
The last Debian install I have done was for jessie (netinst). Like every recent version of Debian before that, it runs tasksel near the end. Inside the tasksel dialog, a desktop environment is selected by default. If you UNSELECT that (press space to remove the checkmark or X or whatever the indicator is), you get Debian without a desktop environment. At that point you can keep it X-less for a server, or install xorg and fvwm and rxvt-unicode, or GNOME, or whatever you like. Sure, if you *don't change the default selection*, you probably get GNOME. Is that what you meant by "don't actually select anything"? Just accepting whatever the default is, without reading or changing what's on the screen?
