Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To   : fusion
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Feb 19 2025 12:57:32

-=> fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ga> Probably my biggest dislike of Slackware, right there.  A real world

 fu> mine is the .new and .orig files that get scattered around when
 fu> software is updated lol

I usually just ignore those... :-)

 fu> before that it was kernel updates back when i had an nvidia card.. the
 fu> instructions basically had you running some swap commands because parts
 fu> of xorg had to be replaced, rebuilding the kernel driver (hopefully not
 fu> accidentally to the old kernel version instead of the new one), and
 fu> then swapping the new files back into xorg.. not really hard but was a
 fu> nuisance when you accidentally miss a step and your desktop comes up @
 fu> 800x600..

Oh yes, I remember that too.  In fact I remember having to manually edit 
xorg.conf files and fiddle with resolutions, etc...  "modeline"...  UGH.

Things have improved in that area, at least.



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