Do I need to install the desktop env when installing a distro or do I need to install blank Linux and install a clean desktop env later? Thank you! 😃👌

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    It makes sense to install a Desktop Environment during the installation. If you install a really bare-boned Linux installation without DE you might even end up without a graphical display manager to login making things complicated for a new Linux user.

    • foremanguy@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      7 months ago

      I don’t care about the difficulty only wants to know what is the best in the case of not installing to much packages, having a clean Linux distro

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
        2·
        7 months ago

        There are options to start at any level you feel comfortable with. In the far end of not installing anything is Linux From Scratch. As the name implies, you start from nothing. I don’t recommend this unless you have specific reasons. If you want a small command line only system to start from there’s plenty of those, many distros offer this choice. Arch, Debian, etc.

      • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        Okay, good :) You can try for yourself. Install bare-boned Linux, and then install for example fvwm, a light weight Window Manager. Fair chance that for example on Debian you will have to figure out which more packages (e.g. xinit and xorg and fonts) to install to make the GUI work. I like Debian for reasons, but the software package dependencies are not always on par with the package installations is my experience.