07-27-2019, 01:13 AM
The heavier desktop environments like Unity and KDE won't start up at all with just software rendering. You probably won't be able to get past the display manager's login screen until you get all the hardware acceleration issues figured out. It's a lot easier to get up and running with a lighter DE like MATE, LXDE, Xfce or even Cinnamon -- I've got Cinnamon running pretty well on Raspberry Pi BTW.