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Debian operating system

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Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.

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Do i simply install on top of a Debian server OS? Which .iso do I download/install?

I think even XFCE is rather bloated and have Debian XFCE on 2 other drives already, so will test out Debian stable nonfree with xfwm standalone. I have the names of the top 5 packages to add and will worry about the rest later. I am in no hurry to get this perfect yet. But, I would like to install the fundamentals tomorrow.

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[–] mekkagodzilla@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I would suggest: 

  1. Use any debian 12 iso
  2. When you get to the stage where you get to choose what to install (it's called tasksel and looks like tasksel : untick whatever desktop environment is selected. You'll get a bare minimal install with no graphics server
  3. Reboot into the installed system, and install whatever you want from there.