The Buster install booted without issue and ran through the setup
menus very nicely. I added a personal user and am able to log in
to the CLI, run startx and run applications.

Next I mounted the Stretch microSD and copied my home directory
to the new installation. No problems, no errors.

However, after reboot the desktop is now Gnome, not LXDE (or whatever
subset of it Raspbian used for both the old Stretch setup and the new
Buster installation at least to start with.

Any hints as to how this happened? I tried to stick with defaults
so far as obvious, never having intentionally invoked Gnome even
as an experiment. Only intentional non-default is the experimental
GL Desktop, which didn't seem to have any effect on the DE.

My principal objection to Gnome is that it's bigger and slower than
LXDE, but that's based on very old experience. Is it still true?

Oh, here's another oddity: I'm typing this across a wireless network,
but the network icon reports no wireless interfaces found. That's odd.

Thanks for reading and any ideas,

bob prohaska

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