Hi,
I thought this would be of interest to this list.  Especially to those 
following the Startup flow [0], & [1].
Some, maybe many, swap the desktop environment for another during 
startup.
>> 
>> Spencer:
>> Would you be interested in documenting your typical startup experience 
>> with
>> Tails and sharing?  The main interest is seeing the modifications made 
>> to
>> the default experience by power users with specific needs.
>> 
> 
> [Tester]:
> Here is a short version of it. This all happens in a span of about 5
> minutes. I don't bother setting up my ideal environment on Tails 
> because
> it's too much extra work for a lazy person like me.
> 
> I start tails.
> 
> I remember the i2p option. Have to reboot to add it.
> 
> After booting up I type my passphrase, set password, the usual.
> 
> Wait for GNOME to load the desktop... takes like 2 minutes.
> 
> Connect to the wifi, cursing the horrible usability of GNOME.
> 
> Next thing I do is move to another TTY, add line `exec i3` into my
> .xinitrc and do `startx`.
> 
> After all this i2p is probably still connecting to the network so wait 
> a
> bit for that.
> 
> Start chatting on i2p irc and browsing tor.
> 
Wordlife,
Spencer
[0]: 
https://tails.boum.org/blueprint/network_connection/
[1]: 
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10491