• Endeavor OS

    From Dr. Noah Bodie@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 3 22:11:40 2022
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    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

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  • From stepore@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Mon Oct 3 19:01:39 2022
    On 10/3/22 18:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this?

    Nope; nobody!

    Also, based on Arch. This is an Ubuntu group.
    Fixed the subject heading for you. You're welcome.

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  • From Dr. Noah Bodie@21:1/5 to stepore on Tue Oct 4 09:13:16 2022
    On 10/03/2022 11:01 PM, stepore wrote:
    On 10/3/22 18:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this?

    Nope; nobody!

    Also, based on Arch. This is an Ubuntu group.
    Fixed the subject heading for you. You're welcome.

    ok, buntu only.

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to stepore on Tue Oct 4 14:57:14 2022
    On 04/10/2022 03:01, stepore wrote:
    On 10/3/22 18:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this?

    Nope; nobody!

    Also, based on Arch. This is an Ubuntu group.
    Fixed the subject heading for you. You're welcome.

    Another little fix for the Subject... ;-)

    --

    Jeff

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Tue Oct 4 07:13:36 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    XFCE over Arch.

    Jesse Smith reviewed it for the feature DW in Jul; and he also put the
    '21 release on his list of 'remarkable' distro/s of 2021.

    There are 352 user reviews at DW avg 8.6, based on a 'curious'
    distribution of scores largely in the 9 & 10 taken down by the lower
    number of 1-5/s.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Edmund@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Tue Oct 4 17:54:43 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/4/22 03:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com



    Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who
    invents a wheel again.
    After all we never can have enough incompatible
    releases or enough useless work.

    Edmund

    --
    “The further a society drifts from the truth,
    the more it will hate those who speak it”

    George Orwell

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Edmund on Tue Oct 4 09:07:44 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Edmund wrote:
    Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who invents a wheel
    again. After all we never can have enough incompatible releases or
    enough useless work.

    Most linux users don't agree w/ your point of view about there being too
    many distributions, too much choice in desktops, or too little
    compatibility between the packaging.

    There is a solution to your 'problem'; select a base and a desktop
    (compare that to selecting Win or Mac) and 'stick w/' that selection and 'ignore' all of the other varieties.

    I recently saw this statement in an article by a writer arguing against
    the inclusion of Rust as an element in linux kernel dev:

    Linux has consistently enjoyed a tremendous amount of attention from
    the software development community. This week’s release of Linux 6.0,
    one of the largest Linux releases ever, boasted more than 78,000
    commits by almost 5,000 different authors since 5.15. Linux has a
    broad developer base reaching from many different industry
    stakeholders and independent contributors working on the careful
    development and maintenance of its hundreds of subsystems. The scale
    of Linux development is on a level unmatched by any other software
    project — free software or otherwise.

    There's a *reason* linux attracts all of that dev.

    And Endeavor isn't reinventing the wheel. Arch is a great base; XFCE is
    a fine desktop, EOS is a good distro.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Abandoned_Trolley@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Tue Oct 4 17:20:38 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 04/10/2022 17:07, Mike Easter wrote:
    Edmund wrote:
    Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who invents a wheel
    again. After all we never can have enough incompatible releases or
    enough useless work.




    and stop worrying about compatability issues - Java is going to fix all that


    --
    random signature text inserted here

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 4 09:28:30 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Abandoned_Trolley wrote:
    and stop worrying about compatability issues - Java is going to fix all
    that

    How do you figure that? Or is that a 'joke' (facetious)?

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Tue Oct 4 11:01:45 2022
    On 10/4/22 09:28, Mike Easter wrote:
    Abandoned_Trolley wrote:
    and stop worrying about compatability issues - Java is going to fix
    all that

    How do you figure that?  Or is that a 'joke' (facetious)?

    Back in the day, JAVA was advertised in that way. Of course it did not and before long people were complaining of its security problems.

    So AB is being somewhat ironic.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
    the Perfect Computer Linus Operating System(for me),
    and a minor case of hypergraphia.
    "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are
    insane." (Mark Twain)
    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  • From Dr. Noah Bodie@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Tue Oct 4 19:44:28 2022
    On 10/04/2022 10:57 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:
    On 04/10/2022 03:01, stepore wrote:
    On 10/3/22 18:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this?

    Nope; nobody!

    Also, based on Arch. This is an Ubuntu group.
    Fixed the subject heading for you. You're welcome.

    Another little fix for the Subject... ;-)

    :-D :-D :-D

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  • From Dr. Noah Bodie@21:1/5 to Edmund on Tue Oct 4 19:49:21 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/04/2022 12:54 PM, Edmund wrote:
    On 10/4/22 03:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who invents a wheel again.
    After all we never can have enough incompatible releases or enough useless work.

    Edmund

    Ha! Someone posted it in a Ubuntu forum so I thot it was based on buntu.
    If I'd known sooner it's Arch-based I would not have bothered with it.

    Thnx for the feedback, guys. As you were. :-D

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  • From Albert Arkwright@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Wed Oct 5 00:41:36 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 04/10/2022 02:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Looks good in what ways? Does it do anything different from Ubuntu or
    Mint?

    I am not using it ant I haven't downloaded it either but I'm assuming it
    can run firefox or chrome and thunderbird which Ubuntu and Mint does but
    this alone is not going to tempt me. With everything there must be a
    reason to use it.

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  • From Edmund@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Wed Oct 5 10:27:04 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/4/22 18:07, Mike Easter wrote:
    Edmund wrote:
    Great, always good to see some linux lunatic who invents a wheel
    again. After all we never can have enough incompatible releases or
    enough useless work.

    Most linux users don't agree w/ your point of view about there being too
    many distributions, too much choice in desktops, or too little
    compatibility between the packaging.

    Sure and precisely that brought us in the chaos we are in today.


    There is a solution to your 'problem';

    What "problem" are you making up that I should have?

    select a base and a desktop
    (compare that to selecting Win or Mac) and 'stick w/' that selection and 'ignore' all of the other varieties.

    Hmm that would be like Linus Torvalds does isn't it,
    well guess what? :-)

    I recently saw this statement in an article by a writer arguing against
    the inclusion of Rust as an element in linux kernel dev:

    Linux has consistently enjoyed a tremendous amount of attention from
    the software development community. This week’s release of Linux 6.0,
    one of the largest Linux releases ever, boasted more than 78,000
    commits by almost 5,000 different authors since 5.15. Linux has a
    broad developer base reaching from many different industry
    stakeholders and independent contributors working on the careful
    development and maintenance of its hundreds of subsystems. The scale
    of Linux development is on a level unmatched by any other software
    project — free software or otherwise.

    There's a *reason* linux attracts all of that dev.

    I'm sure there is.

    And Endeavor isn't reinventing the wheel.  Arch is a great base; XFCE is a fine desktop, EOS is a good distro.

    So? what is it your trying to say, in the current zillion releases
    there are no good ones yet?

    No doubt then, this one will be the last LOL.

    Edmund




    --
    “The further a society drifts from the truth,
    the more it will hate those who speak it”

    George Orwell

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  • From Dr. Noah Bodie@21:1/5 to Albert Arkwright on Wed Oct 5 08:52:36 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/04/2022 08:41 PM, Albert Arkwright wrote:
    On 04/10/2022 02:11, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Looks good in what ways? Does it do anything different from Ubuntu or
    Mint?

    I am not using it ant I haven't downloaded it either but I'm assuming it
    can run firefox or chrome and thunderbird which Ubuntu and Mint does but
    this alone is not going to tempt me. With everything there must be a
    reason to use it.

    Forget it. It's not based on buntu.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Edmund on Wed Oct 5 07:15:13 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Edmund wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:

    select a base and a desktop (compare that to selecting Win or Mac)
    and 'stick w/' that selection and 'ignore' all of the other
    varieties.

    Hmm that would be like Linus Torvalds does isn't it,

    That would be RedHat's Fedora Gnome, even 'tho' he doesn't like gnome
    much. I like gnome much less. But choosing to go w/ RedHat instead of Canonical isn't such a bad idea for someone. But, that would be the
    concept of choosing a/one base and sticking w/ it like Mac or Win.
    Personally I like there being lots of choices, and I prefer Mint's
    version of using a 'buntu base over 'buntu's.

    well guess what? :-)

    What?

    I also read that LT uses the M2 MacBook Air w/ his distro when he
    travels. I don't know how many other linux users are following in his footsteps on that.


    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Wed Oct 5 06:59:50 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Forget it. It's not based on buntu.

    Why are you suggesting that if a distro isn't based on 'buntu that it
    isn't 'a good idea' (or something)?

    I think 'buntu is a very good base off Debian's base, but it isn't the 'end-all' base that Edmund seems to think linux should have.

    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian or
    maybe not.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Nic@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Wed Oct 5 18:02:42 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/3/22 9:11 PM, Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Put on my Ventoy and it failed to boot.

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  • From stepore@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Wed Oct 5 19:13:16 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/5/22 06:59, Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian or
    maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make me
    glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have choice.

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  • From mechanic@21:1/5 to stepore on Thu Oct 6 12:19:08 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Wed, 5 Oct 2022 19:13:16 -0700, stepore wrote:

    On 10/5/22 06:59, Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent
    Debian or maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that
    make me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods
    we have choice.

    Stupid things, such as?
    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

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  • From Edmund@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Thu Oct 6 23:41:03 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/5/22 16:15, Mike Easter wrote:
    Edmund wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:

    select a base and a desktop (compare that to selecting Win or Mac)
    and 'stick w/' that selection and 'ignore' all of the other
    varieties.

    Hmm that would be like Linus Torvalds does isn't it,

    That would be RedHat's Fedora Gnome, even 'tho' he doesn't like gnome
    much.  I like gnome much less.  But choosing to go w/ RedHat instead of Canonical isn't such a bad idea for someone.  But, that would be the
    concept of choosing a/one base and sticking w/ it like Mac or Win.
    Personally I like there being lots of choices, and I prefer Mint's
    version of using a 'buntu base over 'buntu's.

    well guess what? :-)

    What?

    take a guess.

    I also read that LT uses the M2 MacBook Air w/ his distro when he
    travels.  I don't know how many other linux users are following in his footsteps on that.

    Who cares?

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  • From stepore@21:1/5 to mechanic on Thu Oct 6 22:47:32 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/6/22 04:19, mechanic wrote:
    Stupid things, such as?

    Some are politics I don't agree with and don't like discussing politics publicly.
    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision technically and have no problem with them as optional, but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision. I rue the day when not only other major packages are
    replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the point
    where snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option.
    At that point, I'm out!

    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

    I'm well aware of all the distros. I'll stick with Debian if/when Ubuntu
    jumps the shark.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to stepore on Fri Oct 7 03:10:44 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    stepore wrote:
    mechanic wrote:
    Stupid things, such as?

    (I think) stepore should've left enough previous context such as:

    ---------------------
    stepore wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian
    or maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make
    me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have choice.---------------------

    Some are politics I don't agree with and don't like discussing politics publicly.
    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision technically and have no problem with them as optional, but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision. I rue the day when not only other major packages are replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the point
    where snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option.
    At that point, I'm out!

    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

    I'm well aware of all the distros. I'll stick with Debian if/when Ubuntu jumps the shark.

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good about
    basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s and improving on the
    UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the Cinnamon fork, and
    eliminating 'buntu bad decisions like default Snaps and adding some
    useful Mint apps and dev.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those differences, and I find Neon's
    KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a
    Mint suit.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Dr. Noah Bodie on Sat Oct 8 16:57:25 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Tinkering w/ EOS.

    It is a huge departure from a 'conventional' Mint/Ubuntu UI or even a
    'similar' (XFCE over Arch) Manjaro xfce.

    The endeavour 'people' (support, such as dev/s and supporters in E
    forum) expect the user to 'get with' using the command line to do things
    which includes solving problems. It is NOT a beginner distro, as Jesse
    Smith's review says.

    Take the business of there not being a graphical package manager and
    follow that up with trying to install a graphical package manager.

    In such as ubuntu, if you don't like the default software manager, which
    I don't, it is simple to install such as synaptic from the software
    manager or the command line.

    Not so to 'simply' install pamac in E; you have yay & pacman by default,
    but you aren't there at all. You need to get command educated first.

    I would have to do a lot of 'studying' to use E, and the
    command-line-only types in the community aren't very friendly to those
    who aren't -- it seems to me.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Henry Crun@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Sun Oct 9 15:01:34 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 07/10/2022 13:10, Mike Easter wrote:
    stepore wrote:
    mechanic wrote:
    Stupid things, such as?

    (I think) stepore should've left enough previous context such as:

    ---------------------
    stepore wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian
    or maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make
    me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have
    choice.---------------------

    Some are politics I don't agree with and don't like discussing politics publicly.
    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision technically and have no problem with them as
    optional, but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision.
    I rue the day when not only other major packages are replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the
    point where snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option. At that point, I'm out!

    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

    I'm well aware of all the distros. I'll stick with Debian if/when Ubuntu jumps the shark.

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good about basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s
    and improving on the UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the Cinnamon fork, and eliminating 'buntu bad decisions
    like default Snaps and adding some useful Mint apps and dev.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those
    differences, and I find Neon's KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie
    LMDE, Debian in a Mint suit.


    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs (some RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the
    convenience of GNOME CLI, terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can install to try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long
    way 'round)

    --
    No Micro$oft products were used in the URLs above, or in preparing this message.
    Recommended reading: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#befor

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  • From Edmund@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Sun Oct 9 14:16:48 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On 10/9/22 14:01, Henry Crun wrote:
    On 07/10/2022 13:10, Mike Easter wrote:
    stepore wrote:
    mechanic wrote:
    Stupid things, such as?

    (I think) stepore should've left enough previous context such as:

    ---------------------
    stepore wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian
    or maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make
    me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have
    choice.---------------------

    Some are politics I don't agree with and don't like discussing politics publicly.
    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision technically and have no problem with them as optional, but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision. I rue the day
    when not only other major packages are replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the point where snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option. At that point, I'm out!

    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

    I'm well aware of all the distros. I'll stick with Debian if/when Ubuntu jumps the shark.

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good about basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s and improving on the UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the Cinnamon fork, and eliminating 'buntu bad decisions like
    default Snaps and adding some useful Mint apps and dev.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those differences, and I find Neon's KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a Mint suit.


    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs (some RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the convenience of GNOME CLI, terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can install to try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long way 'round)

    Well when - if ever - you might evolve to use a GUI, you might
    find a ocean of time. :-)

    Edmund
    --
    “The further a society drifts from the truth,
    the more it will hate those who speak it”

    George Orwell

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Sun Oct 9 08:15:49 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Henry Crun wrote:
    Also, is Mint systemd-free?

    No.

    The systemd-free distro/s I've used are MX/Anti-X, PCLOS, EasyOS &
    Puppy, and Peppermint (but I haven't its Devuan v).

    I like that MX/Anti-X make it 'optional' at the boot.

    Peppermint has evolved a lot; once LXDE over Ub, now xfce default over Deb.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Sun Oct 9 08:41:54 2022
    On 10/9/22 08:15, Mike Easter wrote:
    Henry Crun wrote:
    Also, is Mint systemd-free?

    No.

    The systemd-free distro/s I've used are MX/Anti-X, PCLOS, EasyOS &
    Puppy, and Peppermint (but I haven't its Devuan v).

    I like that MX/Anti-X make it 'optional' at the boot.

    Peppermint has evolved a lot; once LXDE over Ub, now xfce default over Deb.

    And have you tried Linux Mint Debian?
    They should make a Linux Mint Devuan.

    bliss

    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Bobbie Sellers on Sun Oct 9 09:11:15 2022
    Bobbie Sellers wrote:
        And have you tried Linux Mint Debian?
        They should make a Linux Mint Devuan.

    Yes, I like LMDE just fine, I like Debian, I like Cinnamon, and I like
    the mint 'tools'.

    I'm not anti-systemd. I understand the 'beef', but it also has some
    good purposes and some efficient ways of going about them.

    I'm also glad that others would rather get it all done another way w/o
    systemd.

    I don't think Mint should make a Mint Devuan; they have enough on their
    plate. I'm quite glad they broke w/ Ub over the Snap biz.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Sun Oct 9 08:24:21 2022
    On 10/8/22 16:57, Mike Easter wrote:
    Dr. Noah Bodie wrote:
    Anyone using this? I have it on a pen drive and it looks good.

    https://endeavouros.com

    Tinkering w/ EOS.

    It is a huge departure from a 'conventional' Mint/Ubuntu UI or even a 'similar' (XFCE over Arch) Manjaro xfce.

    The endeavour 'people' (support, such as dev/s and supporters in E
    forum) expect the user to 'get with' using the command line to do things which includes solving problems.  It is NOT a beginner distro, as Jesse Smith's review says.

    Take the business of there not being a graphical package manager and
    follow that up with trying to install a graphical package manager.

    In such as ubuntu, if you don't like the default software manager, which
    I don't, it is simple to install such as synaptic from the software
    manager or the command line.

    Not so to 'simply' install pamac in E; you have yay & pacman by default,
    but you aren't there at all.  You need to get command educated first.

    I would have to do a lot of 'studying' to use E, and the
    command-line-only types in the community aren't very friendly to those
    who aren't -- it seems to me.

    And that is an an advantage to the PCLinuxOS forum with plenty
    of friendly terminal experts willing to help the newbies and plenty of
    GUI in the distribution for people like me. Maybe more GUI than some
    people want. We don't use Gnome but Mate, Plasma 5 and XFCE in the
    house blends, but the Community uses Trident to Open Box.

    I read here about Ubuntu to keep up on the problems faced
    by some SF-LUG users but would never use Gnome or Unity.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
    the Perfect Computer Linus Operating System(for me),
    and a minor case of hypergraphia.
    Linux 5.19.14 KDE Plasma 5 5.25.5
    PCLinux Forum Free Registraion at
    <https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php>

    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Mon Oct 10 09:24:21 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Mike Easter wrote:
    Not so to 'simply' install pamac in E; you have yay & pacman by default,
    but you aren't there at all.  You need to get command educated first.

    I would have to do a lot of 'studying' to use E,

    I have a lot more trouble w/ EOS but this is the wrong place for it.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Crypto God@21:1/5 to space aliens made Mike Easter on Wed Oct 12 06:22:56 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Fri, 7 Oct 2022, space aliens made Mike Easter write:

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make
    me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have
    choice.---------------------

    No, it's not. Anytime someone says "of course", it's usually an assumption based on personal prejudice, free of factual information.

    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Lots. Most software stuff these days is ego-based, someone trying to make
    a name for themselves be reinventing a wheel that didn't need inventing in
    the first place.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision
    technically and have no problem with them as optional, but when they're
    actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a
    garbage decision. I rue the day when not only other major packages are
    replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the point where
    snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option. At that >> point, I'm out!

    I totally disagree tih jamming stuff like this down people's throats.
    Isn't Linux supposed to be about freedom of choice?

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good about basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s and improving on the UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the Cinnamon fork, and eliminating 'buntu bad decisions like default Snaps and adding some useful Mint apps and dev.

    Besides, it's about 50% faster on the same hardware.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those differences, and I find Neon's KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a Mint suit.

    I like LMDE. Better than I like Ubuntu.

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  • From Crypto God@21:1/5 to space aliens made Henry Crun on Wed Oct 12 06:26:22 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, space aliens made Henry Crun write:

    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs (some
    RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the convenience of GNOME CLI, terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can install to
    try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long way 'round)

    Systemd is yet another "solution" in search of a problem, and someone
    trying to create something as a monument to his ego, instead of actually
    being useful, simple, and clean. We've strayed far away from the
    beginnings of UNIX.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 12 08:44:21 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    You people who trim excessively (which trimming I'm already aggressive
    enough) and don't leave enough attribution and context to see who said
    what about what annoy me.

    You should be using less fancy schmancy attribution content and more 'precision' in your attributing and quoting.

    I'll fix it for you.

    Crypto God improperly attributed:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    stepore said:

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that
    make me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods
    we have choice.---------------------

    No, it's not. Anytime someone says "of course", it's usually an
    assumption based on personal prejudice, free of factual information.

    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree
    with.

    Lots. Most software stuff these days is ego-based, someone trying to
    make a name for themselves be reinventing a wheel that didn't need
    inventing in the first place.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine
    decision technically and have no problem with them as optional,
    but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and
    replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision. I rue the day when
    not only other major packages are replaced with snaps but even
    base system packages too. To the point where snaps will be
    dependent upon and removing them won't be an option. At that
    point, I'm out!

    I totally disagree tih jamming stuff like this down people's throats.
    Isn't Linux supposed to be about freedom of choice?

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good
    about basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s and
    improving on the UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the
    Cinnamon fork, and eliminating 'buntu bad decisions like default
    Snaps and adding some useful Mint apps and dev.

    Besides, it's about 50% faster on the same hardware.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better
    than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those differences, and I
    find Neon's KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian
    in a Mint suit.

    I like LMDE. Better than I like Ubuntu.


    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From pinnerite@21:1/5 to Mike Easter on Wed Oct 12 19:22:11 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Fri, 7 Oct 2022 03:10:44 -0700
    Mike Easter <[email protected]d> wrote:

    stepore wrote:
    mechanic wrote:
    Stupid things, such as?

    (I think) stepore should've left enough previous context such as:

    ---------------------
    stepore wrote:
    Mike Easter wrote:
    Maybe 'buntu is an improvement of some kind over its parent Debian
    or maybe not.

    It is. Of course it is. But it also does some stupid things that make
    me glad that Debian is still good ol' Debian. Thank the gods we have choice.---------------------

    Some are politics I don't agree with and don't like discussing politics publicly.
    Some are poor leadership decisions by Mark, again I don't agree with.

    Some are technical things, like Snaps. I think they're a fine decision technically and have no problem with them as optional, but when they're actively removing packages like Firefox and replacing with snaps, it's a garbage decision. I rue the day when not only other major packages are replaced with snaps but even base system packages too. To the point
    where snaps will be dependent upon and removing them won't be an option.
    At that point, I'm out!

    And there are a few distros which are close to the parent Debian,
    but with some usability improvements (SolydX, SpiralLinux,...)

    I'm well aware of all the distros. I'll stick with Debian if/when Ubuntu jumps the shark.

    Some of the appeal of Mint to me is that it takes what is good about
    basing on 'buntu and its Debian-derived 'ub' repo/s and improving on the
    UI w/ its tweaked/forked DEs, particularly the Cinnamon fork, and
    eliminating 'buntu bad decisions like default Snaps and adding some
    useful Mint apps and dev.

    To me, the 'buntu derived flagship Mint Cinnamon is clearly better than flagship Ubuntu Gnome because of those differences, and I find Neon's
    KDE a better 'buntu than Kubuntu.

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a
    Mint suit.

    --
    Mike Easter

    My thoughts exactly.

    Alan

    --
    Mint 20.3, kernel 5.4.0-124-generic, Cinnamon 5.2.7
    running on an AMD Phenom II X4 Black edition processor with 16GB of DRAM.

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  • From wicklowham@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 12 21:21:55 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a
    Mint suit.
    ===========================
    Yes , I happily run LMDE 4 on my laptop ,whereas I have LM Cinnamon on
    a desktop PC. Both are pretty good .......for me no future moving away
    from Linux Mint. I have abandoned Ubuntu 2 years ago

    On an old 32 bit machine (Dell desktop) I run MX-Linux, also very
    satisfying.

    Frank in County Wicklow -Ireland

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  • From mechanic@21:1/5 to wicklowham on Thu Oct 13 11:08:39 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:21:55 +0100, wicklowham wrote:

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a
    Mint suit.
    ===========================
    Yes , I happily run LMDE 4 on my laptop ,whereas I have LM Cinnamon on
    a desktop PC. Both are pretty good .......for me no future moving away
    from Linux Mint. I have abandoned Ubuntu 2 years ago

    On an old 32 bit machine (Dell desktop) I run MX-Linux, also very
    satisfying.

    Frank in County Wicklow -Ireland

    Notice that no-one seems to be running Endeavor (or even Endeavour)
    which is the subject of this thread.

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  • From Mike Easter@21:1/5 to mechanic on Thu Oct 13 05:46:17 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    mechanic wrote:
    Notice that no-one seems to be running Endeavor (or even Endeavour)
    which is the subject of this thread.

    I booted it live, attempted to install pamac, was unsuccessful, and shut
    it down because I didn't have enough interest to figure it out. I
    figured that if I wanted to use an Arch, I would do it w/ Mjo.

    Also, the EOS forum has no search function. If I use google advanced
    search on forum.endeavouros.com/ + pamac, it hangs.

    And I decided that I didn't want to 'talk about' (troubleshoot) the
    problem here, as it was OT.

    --
    Mike Easter

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  • From Bud Frede@21:1/5 to Henry Crun on Fri Oct 14 06:16:00 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Henry Crun <[email protected]> writes:



    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs
    (some RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the convenience of GNOME CLI, terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can install
    to try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long way 'round)

    You can easily manage systemd from the command line. :-)

    If you've been able to adjust to moving from the PDP-11 and the VAX to a
    PC with Linux, you should be able to make the small adjustment to
    systemd.

    I've been using systemd professionally for a number of years and use it
    at home with Linux Mint on my desktop and my wife's laptop, as well as
    with Raspberry Pi OS on a few RPis. It's been working fine and it's
    better in a number of ways than SysV init or BSD's rc init is.

    I got used to SMF on Solaris too, back when I was a Solaris admin. I got
    used to upstart on Ubuntu and the past few years I've been using a Mac
    and am used to launchd.

    I expect to keep learning new things about computers until they bury me, keyboard clasped to my chest. :-)

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  • From Bud Frede@21:1/5 to Crypto God on Fri Oct 14 06:21:03 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    Crypto God <[email protected]> writes:

    On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, space aliens made Henry Crun write:

    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs
    (some RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the convenience of GNOME
    CLI, terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos
    underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can
    install to try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long way 'round)

    Systemd is yet another "solution" in search of a problem, and someone
    trying to create something as a monument to his ego, instead of
    actually being useful, simple, and clean. We've strayed far away from
    the beginnings of UNIX.

    You're welcome to use an old version of UNIX if you don't want anything
    modern.

    I use vi, sed, awk, perl, etc. a whole lot more than I manually use init scripts or systemd. I've got my unix system and it does what I want.

    If you don't like systemd, don't use it. All of this whinging about it
    is old and worn out.

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  • From Bobbie Sellers@21:1/5 to Crypto God on Fri Oct 14 08:10:21 2022
    On 10/12/22 06:26, Crypto God wrote:
    On Sun, 9 Oct 2022, space aliens made Henry Crun write:

    Personally, coming from a background of command-line oriented OSs
    (some RT11, RSTS, VMS) I tend to prefer the convenience of GNOME CLI,
    terminals that emulate VT<whatever>. (dons asbestos underwear...)
    Also, is Mint systemd-free? (I'm not near a place where I can install
    to try, at the momont, and too lazy to go a long way 'round)

    Systemd is yet another "solution" in search of a problem, and someone
    trying to create something as a monument to his ego, instead of actually being useful, simple, and clean. We've strayed far away from the
    beginnings of UNIX.

    Numerous GNU/Linux Distributions are still free of systemd3.
    Modern versions of Unix are downloadable but have more GUI perhaps than you are interested in.
    To keep up on this sort of thing I suggest visiting Distrowatch.com where they keep track of FOSS

    My Linux OS is free of systemd(Poettering's Folly) and
    could be run from a Command Line though I myself do not need to use it
    much. However if I need to use the CLI in an unfamiliar manner
    we have a free forum <https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php> which
    is searchable by free registered members.

    bliss - brought to you by the power and ease of PCLinuxOS
    the Perfect Computer Linux Operating System(for me),
    and a minor case of hypergraphia.
    Linux 5.19.15 KDE 5.26.0

    --
    bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com

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  • From Crypto God@21:1/5 to space aliens made wicklowham on Fri Oct 14 21:58:11 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Wed, 12 Oct 2022, space aliens made wicklowham write:

    Mint is also 'looking after' the day when it might 'have to' go Deb
    because of its 'differences' w/ 'buntu decisions; ie LMDE, Debian in a
    Mint suit.
    ===========================
    Yes , I happily run LMDE 4 on my laptop ,whereas I have LM Cinnamon on a desktop PC. Both are pretty good .......for me no future moving away from Linux Mint. I have abandoned Ubuntu 2 years ago

    On an old 32 bit machine (Dell desktop) I run MX-Linux, also very
    satisfying.

    I'm running LMDE 3 on an old Dell laptop, very fast. I wish they provided
    a clean upgrade path between releases, though.

    I thought the LMDE releases were rolling update releases, but since you
    can't upgrade to 4 from 3, or 5 from 4, I guess it's not strictly true.

    Oh, and Mike "improper attribution" Easter? Either figure out what
    multiple levels of ">" mean, or you can KMA.

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  • From Crypto God@21:1/5 to space aliens made mechanic on Fri Oct 14 21:59:49 2022
    XPost: alt.os.linux.mint

    On Thu, 13 Oct 2022, space aliens made mechanic write:

    Notice that no-one seems to be running Endeavor (or even Endeavour)
    which is the subject of this thread.

    Never heard of her.

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