On 2025-11-13, Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The correct way to get the setup you want is to uncheck all the Desktop >> options in the installer, and boot to a regular text console. Then >> login, and install xorg, fvwm (or fvwm3 now), and whatever other >> packages you want. > > This is not sufficient for a usual desktop (that's why task-desktop > depends on other packages), and this is not documented. Things could > silently break. > > I'm also wondering whether this is sufficient for wifi connections > (this is obviously a must for laptops).
I was thinking about networking, too; I don't think network-manager is installed if you don't request a desktop environment.
