I’ll give it a shot this weekend...antikythera wrote: ⤴Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:32 am Try MX out for yourself and see if you like it, I wasn't keen personally.
Edit, downloading the Advanced Technology D/L since it has the later kernel.
I’ll give it a shot this weekend...antikythera wrote: ⤴Fri Jan 22, 2021 11:32 am Try MX out for yourself and see if you like it, I wasn't keen personally.
Nah, keep your man card; you just need to climb with a safety line. Next time you want to experiment, use a program, like Clonezilla, to make an image of the drive you OS and programs are on, then test restoring the image to another drive (or, if you prefer, just clone the drive) or just pull the drive and replace it with another one, then experiment to your heart's content. That way, if things go south (in my case, when they go south), just restore the image or replace the original drive and you are back in business.MurphCID wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:46 pm Ok, I got Way, Way too ambitious with my extremely limited knowledge of Linux. I tried to install Arch, and completely smoked my system. I finally gave up at 2300 last night, and re-installed Mint. That was utterly painful, I just proved to myself, that perhaps I have no business attempting such things, and should stick with Mint since I am competent to install that. I might try MX linux today, or may wait till next weekend. Arch might as well have been Slackware I was lost completely even with the Wiki. I could get nothing to work, and just proved to myself that I AM a complete Noob. I think I might have to turn in my Linux Man card.....
Yes, you are completely correct, however, sometimes I am not too bright and decide to hit myself with the hammer just to see what happens......antikythera wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:06 pm Arch-fu should be learnt in a VM first before attempting bare metal installs of Arch, it's a bit like Gentoo in that respect. If you want to try Arch with all the donkey work done for you then try Garuda or EndeavourOS
Oh no, as my wife will attest, I have to do things the hard way at times.Lady Fitzgerald wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 4:14 pmNah, keep your man card; you just need to climb with a safety line. Next time you want to experiment, use a program, like Clonezilla, to make an image of the drive you OS and programs are on, then test restoring the image to another drive (or, if you prefer, just clone the drive) or just pull the drive and replace it with another one, then experiment to your heart's content. That way, if things go south (in my case, when they go south), just restore the image or replace the original drive and you are back in business.MurphCID wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 1:46 pm Ok, I got Way, Way too ambitious with my extremely limited knowledge of Linux. I tried to install Arch, and completely smoked my system. I finally gave up at 2300 last night, and re-installed Mint. That was utterly painful, I just proved to myself, that perhaps I have no business attempting such things, and should stick with Mint since I am competent to install that. I might try MX linux today, or may wait till next weekend. Arch might as well have been Slackware I was lost completely even with the Wiki. I could get nothing to work, and just proved to myself that I AM a complete Noob. I think I might have to turn in my Linux Man card.....
Being the complete noob and coward I am, when I installed Mint for the first time on a Win 7 machine, I yanked the one drive in the computer and replaced it with an empty drive so, if things when completely south (amazingly, they only took a temporary detour in that direction), all I had to do was pop the old drive back in to get back to square one (I also had Macrium Reflect images and rescue media I trusted but drive swapping was faster and easier).
When I got my System 76 POS, I pulled the NVMe drive the OS (Ubuntu) was installed on and replaced it with an empty (and better quality) drive. Fortunately, I didn't have to replace the original drives in either case but it was nice to know I had my ample asset covered (and that a lot of real estate to cover ).
Or you hit yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop.MurphCID wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:10 amYes, you are completely correct, however, sometimes I am not too bright and decide to hit myself with the hammer just to see what happens......antikythera wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:06 pm Arch-fu should be learnt in a VM first before attempting bare metal installs of Arch, it's a bit like Gentoo in that respect. If you want to try Arch with all the donkey work done for you then try Garuda or EndeavourOS
That describes everyday at work.Lady Fitzgerald wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:29 amOr you hit yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop.MurphCID wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:10 amYes, you are completely correct, however, sometimes I am not too bright and decide to hit myself with the hammer just to see what happens......antikythera wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 24, 2021 3:06 pm Arch-fu should be learnt in a VM first before attempting bare metal installs of Arch, it's a bit like Gentoo in that respect. If you want to try Arch with all the donkey work done for you then try Garuda or EndeavourOS
No kidding! I'm so glad I'm retired!MurphCID wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:31 amThat describes everyday at work.Lady Fitzgerald wrote: ⤴Mon Jan 25, 2021 7:29 amOr you hit yourself with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop.
Hang in there!