Re: Bugs in gui/back

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi all,

I tried to install a different window manager on this Ubuntu 16.04 box to check out whether the problem is window manager related. I tried Window Maker 

add-apt-repository ppa:profzoom/wmaker

apt-get update

apt-get install wmaker

and was even able to select that on the login screen. But logging in got me immediately rerouted to the login screen. So it simply did not work. I tried a bunch of other window managers from 

https://www.ubuntupit.com/install-various-desktop-environment-ubuntu/

without success. Not one wanted to work. Pretty annoying and discouraging experience so far. The machine is now completely messed up. I not even get back into the original Unity 8 desktop. After a reboot I end up on some kind of xfce login screen with no option to choose a different window manager. :-(

It might be the time for a complete reinstall of the OS. Since the Linux was preinstalled on this machine I do not even have an install CD and would have to create one first. This brings me to the question which distro to use.

What's the quickest and cleanest way to set up a Linux/GNUstep machine on current hardware? Which distro do you recommend? Is there a todo-list somewhere to get from naked hardware to a working GNUstep desktop somewhere?

These kind of problems made me stick to Solaris and MacOSX for so long. Both just worked. This Linux crap gives me a hard time .. :-(

Hints greatly appreciated!!

Thanks,

 Andreas