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! 😃👌

  • foremanguyOP
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    7 months ago

    Its for a daily driver system, productivity, development…

    • lemmyreader
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      7 months ago

      Several Linux distributions, like Arch Linux and Debian have so-called meta packages to install or remove a DE. For example on Arch Linux the command pacman -S cinnamon would install the Cinnamon DE. Or on Debian installing the XFCE4 DE : apt install xfce4