Which distribution strives for simplicity? Debian? Don't know how you figure that, considering the immense number of packages in the main repository.

Also, the user gets the tasksel dialog. In that dialog s/he is offered to select multiple items. There is no cue - visual, auditory, textual - that there's any problem with selecting multiple items. If doing so is considered unreasonable, there would have been radio buttons for the different desktop environments. So, that's one argument for reasonableness.

The other argument is that the person installing does not know which desktop environment the user will prefer. And - it could be more than one user, each with a different preference (e.g. one who is accustomed to Lubuntu with LXQt, and another that's accustomed to Mint with Cinnamon). That's a second argument why it is reasonable to select multiple DEs.

A final reason for this selection is wanting to make available apps originating in the different DEs to users of all DEs.

The user should not be offered any of these choices. Just a "Cancel" button in addition to "Ok". Or, as suggested in this post - no dialog at all, and just a login into the default window manager.

It is not reasonable to force a first-time user to make a selection in a dialog they do not expect, between items they don't recognize, without an option to get cold feet and say "cancel".

Are you sure that the "culprit" here is lxqt upstream? More specifically, are you saying that I shouldn't even reportbug against the lxqt package?

@Head_on_a_Stick can you be a little more explicit? fsmithred posted a link only because he(?) made a single reply on two threads. With your link - I'm not sure what exactly you're telling me, plus it's off-site.

Actually, I couldn't since I already set the timezone.

... however, after having set it - it's still not a symlink, it's a plain text file. It now contains Asia/Jerusalem.

That's not the point of this report. The point is that there's a bug with the distribution (or one of the packages) which causes this to happen. It should be fixed _in the distribution_; I can take care of my own system.

I'll let that slide, because I haven't linked my forum account anywhere. So, this is the FOSS coding I do. No, none of it is Devuan and it's already more than I can handle.

But you should be aware that your rhetoric is highly confrontational and derogatory.

And what do I look like to you?

People on the IRC channel ask me to make sure and report any issues when I install Chimaera. So I do, and I get this flak. Why? I didn't report this as a demand for a fix.

It's mostly the opposite. Even a person who is an actual programmer can only devote time to work on a very small number of software projects. So, it is more true to say that if you want other solutions than those offered, you mostly cannot and will not ever be able to make them yourself.

We make things for others and others make things for us. That's how it works.

The system does not want to know which desktop environment I prefer; it is asking which window manager I prefer for LXQt. But regardless - I should be able to say: "Wait wait, I don't want to face this choice now let me just go back to where I was before".

But there is no user-acknowledged notion of a "last desktop environment to be installed".

But is this the intended Debian/Devuan policy? That is, Devuan defaults to xfce4. If one installs xfce4 + something else, should Devuan default to not-xfce4? And not just that, but have a priority order of defaults based on the order of package installation? Surely that's not right.

And again - even suppose it's legitimate to set LXQt as the default desktop environment. Then, surely a default window manager should be set and used, rather than the user faced with a forced selection dialog.

That's not the point of the issues I'm reporting. Of course I can change things. The issue is what should happen during/after installation, as by default, before the user has changed anything.

My tasks were:

task-cinnamon-desktop task-console-productivity task-desktop task-english task-lxqt-desktop task-ssh-server task-xfce-desktop

Here's what's inside, for example computer.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=pcmanfm-qt computer:///
Icon=computer
Name=Computer

When I launch it, I'm warned of an untrusted launcher. If I make it trusted, I now see the icon and the suffix is gone.

I wonder if this is some remnant from when I first logged into LXQt.

I'm doing this because, before installation, I was specifically asked to provide feedback/report issues. That's my contribution. You're asking me to contribute more. Maybe I will, and maybe I won't, depending on the time I have.

Because distro maintainers are likely to usually be able to tell immediately which package an issue is associated with - if it can be said to be package-specific at all. And the latter point is the most difficult to determine. The package in-and-of-itself might be fine, but its combination with others in the distribution may be the cause of the problem.