#prevent auto booting into mate?

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sinful karma
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I installed via the installer and want it not to boot into MATE r

knotty summit
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disable the display manager

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so go to another TTY with ctrl + alt + F[2-7]

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login

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and (assuming it's lightdm) run systemctl disable lightdm

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you can also just run the command from within mate

stray forge
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uh just making sure

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booting is not the same as auto-logging in

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and display manager is a third thing

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so you actually have three levels (let's keep it simple)

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  1. Booting into OS
  2. Starting a display manager
  3. Logging in into a combination User x Session
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For point 1, you gotta configure your grub (I recommend grub-customizer). This is the only point called booting
For point 2, like others said, you can choose DM by disabling the current one and enabling another one (or no DM at all)
For point 3, your sessions can be chosen in your DM and/or you can configure auto-login