shantiq
August 15th, 2017, 09:49 AM
Hhmmm so not a Britney appreciation post but a summary of the aleatories of playing with your Linux distros ... I have some holiday time so I think time to try new distros ... I have an old Packard Bell PC from 2005 and I load it up with Slackware and Manjaro ... I also have a 2005 MacBook with 10.6.8 installed also with Ubuntu 16.04 using rEFIt to load it and added BodhiLinux for good measure even tried https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux designed by the Russian military.... my main and current Acer PC has 16.04 and I intend to leave it out of my experimentation of course ....
I have all 3 machines running concurrently and merely move from one to the next trying this and that ... what can I do here which does not work there and why? kind of playful balletic Linuxing ... it is summer let's have fun ...
Manjaro (https://manjaro.org/) it turns out is amazing ... everything is there ... it is so easy to install a ten-year-old could do it ... everything works ... Iphone is picked up OOTB ... I play for a while then move away as I want things to think about ... you're Linux users you understand .
PS If anyone says to you "I'd like to try Linux but fear it is too hard too involved ; may I suggest you point them in the Manjaro direction"
OK so I carry on ... much use of Live SuperGrub2 and Gparted to partition and reorganize my space; but at one point on my main machine Unetbootin goes grey and nothing shows up anymore, so I think no worries let us remove all of that and start again
I use Locate and find all the files are in /usr/share/unetbootin so I use sudo rm -rf * once in /usr/share/unetbootin or so I think [I found sudo apt remove --purge sometimes leaves bits and pieces behind] but I forgot to write "unetbootin" so busy was I hopping from one machine to the next so my entire share folder has gone and really so has my 16.04 install and ALL MY FILES! :] Whoops I did it again .....
Fortunately much backed up elsewhere so not too bad but still .... sobering ... and reinstall
On the Slackware never managed to create a user that was accepted [something to do with .serverauth not being found read around it and then left it]so I had stayed in root and still do ... the wiping of my share folder showed me that really the minute you use a terminal and mostly that means sudo you are in the same boat as a root slackware user so I shall remain root there ... it means you can damage your system but hey terminal opens the door to that .... maybe it is just me [but I doubt that]
Playing around is interesting ... iphone is picked up OOTB by Manjaro and Slackware!?! but not by Ubuntu which required
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ingo/ios7support
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
then run:
sudo mkdir /var/lib/lockdown
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/lockdown
Some things are smoother in one distro and not in the next ... been a Ubuntu user since 2009 but I now love Slackware too especially with the sbopkg package manager which again could be used by a ten-year-old ... Slackware usta be seen as "scary" Linux; well it really no longer is ... if I can use it ..iso burnt to usb then install and make a beeline for sbopkg ... anyone can ... and it is sooo stable so pared down .
And there are now incredibly easy Distros like Manjaro ... there are probably others too
So in 2017 Linux is still free mostly virus-free too and has so much variety that really ANYONE can and should have a go
No need to make The Great Vaccinator richer .... The future is bright for PC/laptop users ... the future is Linux ... we hope
I have all 3 machines running concurrently and merely move from one to the next trying this and that ... what can I do here which does not work there and why? kind of playful balletic Linuxing ... it is summer let's have fun ...
Manjaro (https://manjaro.org/) it turns out is amazing ... everything is there ... it is so easy to install a ten-year-old could do it ... everything works ... Iphone is picked up OOTB ... I play for a while then move away as I want things to think about ... you're Linux users you understand .
PS If anyone says to you "I'd like to try Linux but fear it is too hard too involved ; may I suggest you point them in the Manjaro direction"
OK so I carry on ... much use of Live SuperGrub2 and Gparted to partition and reorganize my space; but at one point on my main machine Unetbootin goes grey and nothing shows up anymore, so I think no worries let us remove all of that and start again
I use Locate and find all the files are in /usr/share/unetbootin so I use sudo rm -rf * once in /usr/share/unetbootin or so I think [I found sudo apt remove --purge sometimes leaves bits and pieces behind] but I forgot to write "unetbootin" so busy was I hopping from one machine to the next so my entire share folder has gone and really so has my 16.04 install and ALL MY FILES! :] Whoops I did it again .....
Fortunately much backed up elsewhere so not too bad but still .... sobering ... and reinstall
On the Slackware never managed to create a user that was accepted [something to do with .serverauth not being found read around it and then left it]so I had stayed in root and still do ... the wiping of my share folder showed me that really the minute you use a terminal and mostly that means sudo you are in the same boat as a root slackware user so I shall remain root there ... it means you can damage your system but hey terminal opens the door to that .... maybe it is just me [but I doubt that]
Playing around is interesting ... iphone is picked up OOTB by Manjaro and Slackware!?! but not by Ubuntu which required
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ingo/ios7support
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
then run:
sudo mkdir /var/lib/lockdown
sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/lockdown
Some things are smoother in one distro and not in the next ... been a Ubuntu user since 2009 but I now love Slackware too especially with the sbopkg package manager which again could be used by a ten-year-old ... Slackware usta be seen as "scary" Linux; well it really no longer is ... if I can use it ..iso burnt to usb then install and make a beeline for sbopkg ... anyone can ... and it is sooo stable so pared down .
And there are now incredibly easy Distros like Manjaro ... there are probably others too
So in 2017 Linux is still free mostly virus-free too and has so much variety that really ANYONE can and should have a go
No need to make The Great Vaccinator richer .... The future is bright for PC/laptop users ... the future is Linux ... we hope