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  • "Windows for Linux" -- again??

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Fri Sep 3 12:15:43 2021
    After my BIOS settings crashed (one result was that a boot repair disk couldn't find Windows except the one on VBox!!) I did a complete reinstall.

    Now, Windows-like, KDE has set itself to be the default DE, and I need
    to change it to Xfce on every bootup. Normally, Xfce would be saved for
    the next boot, but KDE won't allow that. And KDE is still popular!

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Fri Sep 3 12:46:50 2021
    On 3/9/21 9:15 pm, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    After my BIOS settings crashed (one result was that a boot repair disk couldn't find Windows except the one on VBox!!)  I did a complete reinstall.

    Now, Windows-like, KDE has set itself to be the default DE, and I need
    to change it to Xfce on every bootup.  Normally, Xfce would be saved for the next boot, but KDE won't allow that.  And KDE is still popular!

    I have uninstalled the Plasma core components. In addition, I have uninstalled BOINC. I first heard of Seti@Home from a German user, many
    years ago. Now the program has an upstream bug that consumes CPU. and
    none of the developers seem to know what is causing it. I think that I
    have done my bit for BOINC's distributed computing. My computer is
    behaving again as it should have, from the beginning.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.22 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: Aioe.org NNTP Server (2:250/1@fidonet)
  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Fri Sep 3 13:48:56 2021
    On Fri, 3 Sep 2021 21:15:43 +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
    After my BIOS settings crashed (one result was that a boot repair disk couldn't find Windows except the one on VBox!!) I did a complete reinstall.

    Now, Windows-like, KDE has set itself to be the default DE, and I need
    to change it to Xfce on every bootup.

    Problem is between keyboard and chair. I always pick xfce only during
    install.


    Normally, Xfce would be saved for
    the next boot, but KDE won't allow that. And KDE is still popular!


    On the occasions I have installed more than one DE, the login screen
    allowed me to pick user for login, then click a configuration icon
    and pick the DE for the user, then enter password and DE screen comes up.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.22 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
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