Originally posted by tildearrow
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Oh you mean the app that is completely useless if you are stuck with terminal when your main GUI can't start because you don't have drivers or firmware to initialize the GPU 3D and 2D acceleration engines?
Yeah, Ubuntu has that app.
But I was hinting at something else.
Decent distros provide a "fallback" GUI to be used with VESA, that runs like garbage but it only needs a CPU and a framebuffer to show a GUI, this is of course a massive help if you installed a DE that needs OpenGL 2.0 or better to work at all.
OpenSUSE for example always installs IceWM and its "DE" components, creating a tiny low-resource DE that does not need OpenGL, and you can choose that when logging in instead of KDE/GNOME. It will look dated but it will allow you to limp around with a GUI to go and fix issues after install without having to use console commands. It's kind of a Windows-like "Safe Mode".
Also Mageia, another distro that shares many design principles with OpenSUSE does the same (it also includes IceWM as a fallback GUI).
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