Finaly a test done properly. > Even once set up it takes about 8 minutes to boot up to the desktop I presume this is running some sort of KDE or Gnome, which

Finaly a test done properly. > Even once set up it takes about 8 minutes to boot up to the desktop I presume this is running some sort of KDE or Gnome, which are slow to boot even on a resonable new PC. Running fvwm2 on a Pi1 had resonable speed.