On Wed, 2018-01-17 at 09:11 +0700, Frederic Muller wrote:
> On 01/17/2018 02:48 AM, William Oliver wrote:
> > I give
> > myself about an hour of poking around, and then say "screw it" and
> > do a
> > clean install.
>
> Yes that sounds about right probably. It'll take more than 30 minutes
> as I need to do a fresh back and a fresh reinstall, but that could
> probably be a good way to fix the problem since I seem to be the only
> one affected by it.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Fred
I also wander away from Fedora for awhile on occasion, and then come
back. There have been a couple of Fedora versions that just didn't
work well on my machine. I'm using KDE Neon right now, because I had
some issues with Fedora 26. I don't even remember what the issue was,
except it lasted longer than my fuse. I would have moved back to
Fedora when 27 came out, but I thought I'd give Qubes 4.0 a try, which
is fedora-based (sort of), and will move to it if I can get it
installed -- which was no mean feat with Qubes 3.2.
I used to be the kind of guy who wanted to track every little thing
down, and thought people who used GUI tools for configuration were
wimps. I wanted to edit files directly. But automation has sort of
been baked in to Fedora now, systemd has made everything opaque, I
don't have a clue how to fiddle with wayland (and apparently I'm not
supposed to be able to do so),and even when you do edit config files,
some service or another will come back in five minutes and edit it back
(I'm talking to you, Network Manager). So to hell with it. Now I use
the simplest path possible, and if that doesn't work, I blow it up and
start over, or download other distros until something works. Usually,
one of Fedora, Manjaro, Debian, or Arch will do fine for a few months,
until a new version comes out to break things.
It seems that Linux is increasingly like Windows in becoming less and
less accesible to tinkerers and becoming more and more opaque. I still
much prefer Linux, and I like Fedora, don't get me wrong, and I can
understand why enterprise folk want things as automated as possible --
I did too, when I was a "real" sysadmin for a sizeable network a decade
or so ago. But I kind of miss the old days when you could more easily
poke around.
I should probably just give up and go to some really stable distro like
CentOS, but there the opposite is true. Since I like to tinker, a
system that just "works" is boring... Too hot or too cold, nothing
"just right."
billo
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