Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 7/31/26 00:45, rbowman wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 01:54:50 +0500, Stanislav N. aka pztrn wrote:
> 
>> Just subscribe to Arch news (e.g. via RSS) and read them before
>> updating. All neccessary manual actions will be there. And try to update
>> your system at least once per week (I do it on saturdays with morning
>> coffee).
> 
> I installed EndeavourOS and it worked well. I did update it frequently,
> probably every two or three days, and after one update it didn't boot. I
> screwed around for a while with a USB session, chroot, and all that good
> stuff but couldn't get it fixed. I had a SUSE iso I'd been running in a VM
> on another machine and there wasn't enough work/data to worry about so I
> reinstalled.
> 
> I never could decide which got more new stuff 'pacman =Syu' or 'dnf
> update' on Fedora 44. EOS includes 'yay' which is nice for the AUR stuff.

    I had *fair* success with Endeavour. Seems to
    be a pretty nice system.

    However, as also experienced with Manjaro, the
    UPDATES seem to soon fail. Then you have to
    dump the whole system.

    Sorry, NOT gonna replace crap with more crap.

    The Archiverse needs to get its shit together.

    And DON'T like their dual, regular + "AUR",
    repo system. Get it all TOGETHER guys !!!

    Still gonna stick mostly to "MX". It "Just Works".
    Mint is pretty much the same.

    See my notes on "DietPi" also. SOMETHING has
    gone amiss on what USED to be a good minimalist
    OS.

    The more complex and convoluted Linux distros
    become, the more ways it can all go WRONG.

    Somebody somewhere needs to look back maybe 15
    years and figure out why all that used to
    go very WELL.