Steve. At least Debian works better in this old Mac best of all else I've tried. Debian is very instructive, which in itself is an argument to use it for a newbie in IT & Linux. BR, Gunnar. PS. And level of patience, respect & even humility is a bit higher here than the smaller, also quick response, helpsite I used in another Linux distro. That bit is necessary for me to keep focus. DS.
On Wed, 4 Aug 2021, 22:03 Steve Litt, <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > Hi Gunnar, > > Gnome depends very much on systemd, and probably vice versa. It doesn't > surprise me at all that Debian doesn't work without Gnome, or at least > without a lot of hoop-jumping. > > You might want to try Devuan, which is basically Debian without > systemd, and then use a window manager or desktop environment that is > not Gnome. I think Devuan's default is XFCE. > > Steve Litt > > > > Gunnar Gervin said on Wed, 4 Aug 2021 11:11:49 +0300 > > >I forgot to tell: > >The machine got some crisis because I removed Gnome desktop in a some > >wrong way in root in Terminal; > ># apt remove task-gnome-desktop > > > >Please advice how tide up again. > >Gunnar >
