Peter Percival  wrote:
> The Raspi boots into the PIXEL gui.
>
> The book is rather poor, though I should remark that I am quite
> unqualified to comment on it.

OK, so the ways you might login using the username and password you created
are:

1. If you enable SSH and login from another machine using an SSH client
1b. Similar with VNC or X11 instead of SSH
2. If you disable Pixel and fall back to a text login screen on boot
3. If you press Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n=1 to 6) to drop out of Pixel into a text
login screen
4. If you type 'su - peter' to switch from one user to another in an
existing terminal
5. If you configure Pixel or install another desktop environment that has a
GUI login screen

Probably #1 and #3 are the most common use cases.
Pixel is rather unusual in that it doesn't prompt for a user login on boot,
which most other desktop environments do.

Theo

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