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 <g...@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.
