On 04/11/2025 01:12, [email protected] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 03, 2025 at 12:43:11PM -0500, Tech_Research wrote:
What's the difference between Debian & Debian Gnome?
How do I know if a device has Debian or Debian Gnome?
There is no "Debian Gnome". Debian is... Debian. Gnome is a desktop environment,
as are, e.g. Mate, KDE, LXDE, etc.
When installing Debian, you can choose one desktop environment (or none at all,
this is possible as well). Or you can even install several, and choose at login.
I have not tried if it has been changed in trixie, but earlier netinst
had rather confusing dialog to select DEs. Debian desktop checkbox node
was the parent of other variants. I decided that it is for some common
files and did not uncheck Debian desktop. The result was GNOME packages
as unsolicited bonus and reinstall from clean state.
I have no idea if the Debian desktop task installs some additional
packages like branded themes in addition to "pure" GNOME task.
