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If your system still boots into gui despite the above steps: On some systems you have to do one more thing: disable the lightdm.service or kde.service whichever might be still active systemctl disable kde.service or systemctl disable lightdm.service Reply
If your system still boots into gui despite the above steps:
On some systems you have to do one more thing: disable the lightdm.service or kde.service whichever might be still active
systemctl disable kde.service
or
systemctl disable lightdm.service
Thanks. gdm.service is another one to be disabled too.