On Jo, 27 feb 20, 15:11:10, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > Long time Linux user here, very familiar with tools for system > administration but somewhat stumped by the behaviour of a system > installed by me about six years ago at a local farm. It's an old > Intel 'NUC' like this one: > > https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/78577/intel-nuc-kit-de3815tykhe.html > > It has an Intel E3815 CPU (~1.5GHz), 8GBytes of RAM, 250Gbyte SSD. As > luck would have it there's a second system on the site, identical save > for a 1Tbyte laptop-style spinning disc, but I'll come to that later. > > The 'problem' box is used for all the usual stuff (email and document > processing, scanning, printing etc.) plus banking, online orders from > suppliers, security monitoring (some custom Perl scripts and 'motion', > using a variety of cameras), and United Kingdom VAT returns through a > combination of a Windows 7 VM under VirtualBox (fired up quarterly - > to power some Microsoft Office scripts and Microsoft's browser - for > what should be ten minutes but what in reality, through no fault of > the computer, is usually nearer a day). What Desktop Environment? I believe GNOME is using Wayland by default and needs hardware acceleration. Try something like LXDE instead. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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