Originally Posted by PangOS

Here's *my* stupid question, I've searched but have not quite come up with anything.
After a "successful" install, restart boots MacOS I do the personalizing bit and then after login the background changes to blue. Here the Finder should startup but screen remains blue with movable cursor. Nothing else? What's with this one?

Oh, reformatted and tried different options on installs like 20 times, takes about 15mins to install.

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