i usually play with it in vm to make sure it will do what i want. if it does good i then go ahead & just install it. i'll run it for awhile till i get bored or something better comes along.
i usually play with it in vm to make sure it will do what i want. if it does good i then go ahead & just install it. i'll run it for awhile till i get bored or something better comes along.
i learned way back in my mainframe days (VM/CMS) that incremental upgrades can either lead to (often subtle) problems or leave them around. so with SunOS and 386BSD and Linux, i generally have isolated partitions or drives for the system (apart from user data) and do full re-installs to upgrade to a new version. that experience and philosophy influences how i work with other things, too. i installed Gnome over KDE, once, thinking that would make a clean switch. nope. funny how well it worked, though with strange confusion all over the place.
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yeah, i never mix de's. i use 1 environment per install.
i try & keep it simple less things to get in the way.
i've been a Linux text console user ever since. it was always faster than xterm under X on the same machine. i got rather sophisticated at the text console setup. i also did have X running for graphical needs like web browsing and photo processing. now, hardware is fast enough that the higher speed of real text mode doesn't really help that much. sometimes i can see the editor doing things that move stuff around, but that isn't an issue for me.
i still do editing in text mode in the terminal emulation i am running. it is faster starting up that way, especially when editing remotely via an ssh session.
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