it’s not an exclusive feature, as you can you can do this on most if not all distros. it’s just that Debian is better suited to server (this is a bit objective) since the packages are less likely to change and break on you (so reliability and stability)
Yes you can disable the DE on Debian and probably on other distros too.
I “disable” it the wrong way, since I want to have it after a reboot, for diagnostics, I just shut it off via systemctl
For gnome it should be:
Systemctl stop gdm3
But you can also configure it to always start headless.
And if you need it you can launch it again from the shell.
Wait, is this a Debian-exclusive feature?
Guess I need to take a second stab at setting up my own server
it’s not an exclusive feature, as you can you can do this on most if not all distros. it’s just that Debian is better suited to server (this is a bit objective) since the packages are less likely to change and break on you (so reliability and stability)
Yes you can disable the DE on Debian and probably on other distros too.
I “disable” it the wrong way, since I want to have it after a reboot, for diagnostics, I just shut it off via systemctl For gnome it should be: Systemctl stop gdm3
But you can also configure it to always start headless. And if you need it you can launch it again from the shell.