On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 06:10:01AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Hi, > > On 2021-08-05 4:06 a.m., Gunnar Gervin wrote: > > Steve. > > At least Debian works better in this old Mac best of all else I've > > tried. Debian is very instructive, which in itself is an argument to use > > it for a newbie in IT & Linux. > > BR, > > Gunnar. > > PS. > > And level of patience, respect & even humility is a bit higher here than > > the smaller, also quick response, helpsite I used in another Linux > > distro. That bit is necessary for me to keep focus. > > DS. > > > > On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, 22:03 Steve Litt, <sl...@troubleshooters.com > > <mailto:sl...@troubleshooters.com>> wrote: > > > > Hi Gunnar, > > > > Gnome depends very much on systemd, and probably vice versa. It doesn't > > surprise me at all that Debian doesn't work without Gnome, or at least > > without a lot of hoop-jumping. > > > Total false statement and non-sense. > > There's many and many more Debian server running without Gnome. Some of > them don't even have a video card connected to a monitor.
FWIW: my laptop runs wth SysV init, no Gnome (actually no desktop environment), but with X and a window manager (Fvwm). It's not always "obvious", but it is definitely doable. Debian's happy. Cheers - t
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