RPi os lite versus RPi os desktop with gui disabled, are they basically the same?

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I have a simple setup with a pi, a nice alfa wireless adapter, and ethernet to supply my Xbox with a faster connection. I ended up just using the desktop version cause I needed to switch to NetworkManager to force the wireless adapter to connect to the 5GHz and not 2.4 and I kept running into problems trying to configure NetworkManager with the lite os. But when I got it all working I just disabled the gui.

So my question is, if the pi is gonna run headless in the background while I game, would it be better to try to make it work with the lite os, or does it even matter?
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