> That's right. "Modern" desktop environments (Gnome and derivatives, > most probably also KDE) depend these days on systemd. I don't know > how hard those dependencies are -- you'd want to look at Devuan [2] > [3] to see how far they went, if at all, into fixing this.
The Devuan default desktop is Xfce. Cinnamon, KDE, LXQt and MATE are available from tasksel during installation and a number of other graphical environments are available post-install. https://devuan.org/os/
