On Monday 23 December 2024 08:50:25 am Richard Owlett wrote: > On 12/22/24 3:18 PM, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > [snip] > > That depends. I want to be able to *use* the thing, right off, and not > > have to fiddle with stuff to get it to work. > > > > Confident in my skills? Yeah, I'd say so. Though there's a whole > > lot of stuff I'd rather not have to bother with to get things functional ... > > I'd much rather let the software set all of this up. > > > > .... I need to upgrade, anyhow. Having gone through the whole upgrade of > > Debian once on this box, I'd rather not go through that again multiple > > times, > > so I'm going to just install 12.something on the new machine and then try > > and > > port things over as best I can. > > > >[snip] > >> > >> i see you mention running a pretty light desktop > >> management system so that also indicates someone who's > >> more into command line things. > > > > Sometimes. It depends on what I'm trying to do. Most of the time lately it > > comes down to email, web browsing, and managing those files that I keep on > > collecting, mostly by plugging them into an HTML "tree" that lives on my > > server... > > I date back to PETs and S-100. Left MS for Debian Squeeze ~2011. > I've never followed the upgrade path as there wasn't usually anything I > needed/wanted until far into the release cycle. I've entirely skipped at > least one release. I have minimal web exposure and even then cookies and > JavaScript are disabled. My primary internet connectivity is text based > email and USENET. Fresh install route has had minimal problems. > > YMMV
I'm not too far from that position, though of course the background stuff is rather different. I still have a couple of CP/M machines in my office here, ferinstance, though it's been a while since I fired one up. :-) -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
