On 6/8/24 18:02, David Christensen wrote:
On 6/8/24 12:13, gene heskett wrote:
On 6/8/24 03:22, David Christensen wrote:
If you installed VirtualBox on your Debian primary workstation, you
could create one Debian VM for each of your engineering/
manufacturing apps. This would give each app a clean Debian VM for
installation, prevent apps from fighting each other, and prevent apps
from modifying your base Debian installation.
It is quite rare that a snap, appimage, or venv needs anything from
the system. Memory or storage is generally done at whatever venv is
started as the user. That venv equ is generally what they all claim to
do. I see your reticence to make use of them as a restriction.
My suggestion is a variation of the "divide and conquer" troubleshooting
strategy.
I am not familiar with snap, appimage, or venv. Regardless of the
software distribution mechanism, I expect that each app is developed and
tested against a list of supported OS's and releases using VM's. If you
provide each app with its own VM containing a supported OS and release,
the app should install and work correctly. And, your base Debian
installation should remain stable.
That it is not, locking up about every 10 days switching workspaces,
locking with what would be horizontal synch bar in an NTSC system,
frozen at some random location on the screen. Mouse pointer is alive and
moves with the mouse, but buttons are inactive, Cycle the power or press
the front panel reset for 4+ seconds to reboot. I've also asked about
that several times, without a reply. Memtest86, V9.4 says my 32Gigs is
clean. Video is built into the mainboard, Intel of some sort I believe.
Compared to the other problem I have, fixing this is not a very high
priority. But I need sleep, so good night. Take care & stay well, David.>
David
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.
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