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    I do not have and addiction problem, you have a problem with my addiction.

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    [–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 61 points 2 months ago (17 children)

    Is it too much to ask for the days when my system was nothing but a prompt in which I may or may not type "startx"?

    [–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Hah that's what I always had on Debian on my laptop back in the version 9 days (buster?). Nothing's stopping you from doing it now with runlevels. I think with systemd it's just systemctl set-default multiuser.target

    You can then always get the full boot with systemctl isolate graphical.target

    Might not be the exact command but it's something like that for sure.

    [–] JATtho@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    The default systemd target to boot into can be overriden from the kernel command line.

    If the GUI ever gets broken, having a such fallback boot entry just for the (VT) console mode is invaluable. (The boot-entry can reuse the same kernel and initrd images from the regular boot.)

    [–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Did not know that! Thanks for the tip!

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