Not everyone knows everything. Actually, nobody does.
Computers simply became an easily available necessity, thus you get a lot of computer-illiterate people using computers.
I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux.
I am also dumb and worthless.
My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint.
I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.
SDF Unix shell username: user224
Not everyone knows everything. Actually, nobody does.
Computers simply became an easily available necessity, thus you get a lot of computer-illiterate people using computers.
How are you using it remotely? VNC?
Perhaps the server config started defaulting to XFCE. Maybe what happened is entire XFCE DE got marked as a dependency, installed during update, and then when some config defaulting to XFCE thanks to this became valid, you ended up here.
If it’s VNC, what do you have in
~/.vnc/xstartup
? Maybe a line likexfce4-session &
?