Re: Musings on debian-user list

Mark wrote:
When I feel adventurous one weekend I'll try a Debian install without the
desktop environment. I think this email list is filled with people very
comfortable using no desktop environment, but for those of us raised on
Windoze it takes some time to transition over.

Note that "no desktop environment" does not mean "no GUIs". The X Window
System is much older than Gnome and KDE (it is also older than Linux).
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John Hasler


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