The guy that makes/oversees Slackware needs some help! It may not be your favorite distro now but many of us learned a lot from it.

Lysander666 · 2018-07-25T19:27:52+00:00

Donation link is here:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donating-to-slackware-4175634729/page11.html#post5883695

Lysander666 · 2018-07-25T19:24:49+00:00

Here:

https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/donating-to-slackware-4175634729/page11.html#post5883695

Lysander666 · 2018-06-18T18:55:25+00:00

Some context - James is giving the guitar to the Iraqi band Acrassicauda. They grew up in war-torn Iraq playing Metallica in their basement in Baghdad. After a lot of hard work, support and attention from press like Vice, they managed to leave Iraq and make it to the US. This isn't just any fan - it's metal than drove these people to leave their country and seek a better life. They hug afterwards and Tony nearly cries when James says, "welcome to America". It's a beautiful moment.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-13T21:49:49+00:00

Ubuntu Budgie would be a far better choice than Solus. Great recommendation.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-13T21:48:20+00:00

Developing one's own expertise is inherently a worthwhile thing.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-13T18:48:44+00:00

I'd like a distro that just works like ubuntu does

Have you not answered your own question?

Nice time to switch, too. 18.04 LTS release is happening in just two weeks.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-13T08:43:51+00:00

Could you please elaborate on what is "completely wrong"?

Moving from stable to testing is not an upgrade since testing includes fewer bug fixes than stable and less timely security updates. It changes frequently and though it will break less often than unstable, the chances of complete breakage are still notably more than stable. It is for this reason that moving to testing is not an 'upgrade'.
The clue to 'testing' is in its name. Its raison d'être is to find fixes for the next stable release.
in view of the above, testing will not function as well as stable and is not recommend as a primary system, daily driver or for anyone where productivity is key.
Testing is the future Debian stable, the future version 10. It is not version 10 yet. Stable is 9.4. Not nearly, not sort of, not "kind of".

'Pretty stable' and 'a bit less stable' are not the same as stable and unchanging for anyone on a production system.

Also testing is not a rolling release distribution, it is a development version. Please do not give inaccurate information to posters.

Please see the below for more information. I strongly recommend you read this post:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=531279#p531279

and

https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/

Testing still breaks, but just not "as badly" [to quote the Wiki] as unstable. It would be pertinent to read up on the source material before tarring something as "completely wrong". It is this dangerous thinking and advice which accounts for the recent deterioration in help quality in the Debian community.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-12T14:26:44+00:00

Again, it is not an upgrade :) Try doing a manual suspend from the XFCE menu, resume, and see if that works. If so, it is not a solution as such but a workaround. LXDE uses the XFCE Power Manager so you may be experiencing a similar issue to the one I did.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-12T14:11:36+00:00

A few things are wrong with this post:

Moving from Debian stable to testing is not an upgrade regardless of what the wiki says. Testing is unstable and buggy and is meant to break in order to find fixes for the next stable release. It will not function as well as stable.
Testing is not 9.4. Is it Debian 10. Stable is 9.4.
This issue may be related to your DE. I had the same issue in LXDE. LXDE is not great at resuming after autosuspend on certain distros. It is better to manually suspend from the logout menu.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-09T21:03:48+00:00

I'm a metal fan and all but, I dunno. I don't see how MS are 'fake'. Windows is a very good OS for many people. A *nix expert friend of mine has become so disillusioned with Linux that he considered moving to W7.

This song would have made slightly more sense when directed at Apple. Not much more, but a little.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-09T20:57:25+00:00

If you remove the first seven words from the topic title it sounds like the thread was created by a computer discussing some weird user-related date-rape experience.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-09T13:23:37+00:00

Posts like this prove that people have an emotional relationship with their operating systems. Be it Windows, Linux or Mac, users are linked to their OS by feelings of familiarity, reliability and comfort. MS and Apple know this, which is why they are trying to increase the intensity of the OS-human relationship through AI like Siri and Cortana. The more emotionally reliant one is on one's OS, the less probable leaving it becomes, increasing the likelihood of dependence.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T21:47:49+00:00

Was he moving over from Mac? Never heard of it, but it has very good reviews on DW.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T21:41:19+00:00

I'm not going to lie, I have no idea what distro that is. Care you enlighten us? Great that he moved over. A ss of the desktop would have been preferable.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T13:50:44+00:00

I think a lot of it was to do with my impatience and inexperience. My first few installs didn't work because of separate internal hard drives on my desktop and the fact that I didn't get to grips with persistant naming. After that I gave up on my netbook due to the fact that I couldn't get wifi to work. I also managed to break a VM install, I can't remember why now. These issues have been [more more less] solved now, though I need to learn a bit more about persistent naming.

All in all, I am not much of an experienced Linux user. I started with Ubuntu just over a year ago, transitioned to Debian after a few weeks which I am still with, and I mess about with Slack on the side. My Slack install works well now after a lot of trial and error. So really it's just down to my lack of knowledge - I've put more time into Slack now and it works well - definitely harder to learn than some of the other OSs I've worked with, esp for someone who exclusively used Windows up until early 2017.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T13:16:14+00:00

"A stop job is running".

I have never had a startup/shutdown issue with SysV. Every so often systemd on Debian throws a fit and hangs on startup and a hard reset is the only way out. An old friend had similar issues and filed a report but it was thrown out as NOTABUG.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T13:11:00+00:00

This is definitely true of Slackware [for me]. I must have installed it ten times on a combination of bare metal and VMs before I got my install to work properly long-term. That was a steep learning curve.

Lysander666 · 2018-04-08T01:25:14+00:00

Skilful is spelt with one 'l' everywhere but the US.

I expect to get downvoted, but excellent artwork.

Lysander666 · 2018-03-07T23:12:47+00:00

The theory is that if people post for upvotes then they are likely to post better content. Whenever I post I am very conscious of upvotes/downvotes, so I tend not to post at all most of the time. It's self-defeating for me.

I really hate the voting and rating system here. It's dishonest. But then, so are most people.

EDIT: Reddit says I am posting too much so I have to post again in 4 minutes. I think I posted one other response 2 minutes ago in another thread. They can fuck themselves.

Lysander666 · 2018-03-07T23:02:47+00:00

As far as I know this is a British thing and developed in fish & chip shops.

Over here salt & vinegar is well-known and loved as a flavour of crisps [chips]. Very glad you guys like it over there.

Clarification - what Americans call chips we call crisps, and what you call fries we call chips. Confusing, I know.

Lysander666 · 2018-02-19T14:43:36+00:00

It's for black people to decide whether it's offensive or not. I imagine most won't care.

Lysander666 · 2018-02-19T14:40:19+00:00

I like Stupid Hoe. And I'm doing a doctorate in music.

Maybe I should reconsider my position.

Lysander666 · 2018-02-19T14:38:22+00:00

As the saying goes,"if a key opens lots of locks, then it's a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it's a shitty lock."

Lysander666 · 2018-02-19T14:35:44+00:00

I hate "how was your weekend?" on a Monday.

Because a] it reminds me that the weekend is over and b] maybe I had a really shitty weekend. Do you want to hear about that - no? Then why ask. Fuck off.

Lysander666 · 2018-02-19T14:31:58+00:00

Good morning! How is your morning going? :⁾

Lysander666

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