Subj : Re: Debian 12 changes syslogd to journald
To   : esc
From : paulie420
Date : Sun Jul 02 2023 22:19:51

 es> I was an Arch loyalist for a long time. I think Arch appeals to the kind
 es> of person that treats their OS like a hobby. And for a time, it was
 es> great. However I got irritated about things breaking periodically (due
 es> to bleeding edge) and realized I was very happy with my Ubuntu servers,
 es> so I just started using Ubuntu for my desktop. However, I hate all
 es> things Gnome, so I actually use Kubuntu, and have a very favorable
 es> opinion of it.

Same... I can recall so many issues - that were easy enough to fix, but were a 
hassle. I remember the GRUB issue that would break GRUB installs after a pacman 












































update, I remember wayland issues that broke the GUI and require booting into 
X11 to repair; nothing that you couldn't fix right then, but certainly not for 
the newbie...

 es> There is part of me that misses Arch, but at this point I am more
 es> interested in using the OS than tweaking it and messing with it. 
 es> 
 es> The only downside is that I feel like I learn far less when most of the
 es> inner workings of the OS are abstracted away. Yeah, you can tweak stuff
 es> on Ubuntu, but it's not really the same.

I kinda feel similar - I installed Ubuntu on my 'main' laptop, but I don't 
think I'm gonna land here for long... one suggestion; I've installed NixOS on 
my secondary computer - and its an awesome method of running Linux.

It kinda fits us retro folks - but with plenty of current tech... all setups 
are created with text files; either standard configuration.nix / hardware.nix, 
or by using a thing called flakes and home-manager - that I'm learning now.

I could see myself landing here permanently... but more testing is needed. Some 












































things aren't easy, such as getting netrunner to run on the system - but I'm 
almost there... its worthy of taking a peek at.



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