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		asveikau on Nov 5, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Debian: Change default desktop to xfce Does anyone use the Debian default desktop? I always figure it to be a distro whose users prefer to customize. I personally tend to set it up with the netinst image, with no GUI, then install a WM and set up ~/.xsession manually..

tehwalrus on Nov 6, 2013 [–]

The desktop is pretty much the only thing I bother to customise when installing a distro. (that and maybe partitions, if it's not in a VM.)

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