The live installer sucks.
It is called Calamares, it is not well maintained upstream, and it doesn't support even trivial complexity like LVM or Encryption.
Use the regular install DVD or Netinst. You get to choose your desktop environment in the process.
In my experience with Debian, using the netinst ISO is the most reliable option. That being said, install from live USB should be fine.
At this point, I would probably re-flash the image on the drive.
I've done that again, and now have a working Gnome install...
But I cannot get the touch screen disabled no matter what I try on it.
udevadm doesn't do it x11conf edit doesn't do it
Losing my mind with this 🤦♂️
Machine still complains ath10k is missing on bootup, too. I don't see how it isn't on this media when it was on the machine after the initial update to bookworm (many installs ago now, since I've been trying to get this installed the last 2 days)
And... I totally broke my touchpad trying to disable the touch screen.
Couldn't figure it out, so another reinstall! I've done 5 now, and to hell with Wayland. All this time wasted trying to do something that apparently just ain't supported yet.
I had it working (well, disabled) on Wayland on my earlier frankenbian... ugh.
Debian is a free operating system (OS) for your computer. An operating system is the set of basic programs and utilities that make your computer run. Debian provides more than a pure OS: it comes with over 59000 packages, precompiled software bundled up in a nice format for easy installation on your machine.