Leaving an old friend

[Cope57[1up]]

Wow, this turned out to be a bigger post than expected, so I copied it to my blog.

[J-Squared[1up]]

Good luck with Fedora.

[[GM] Legion]

hope it works out for you in the end, and glad to hear you got the hardware thing all straightened out. now you can play some big boy games too with the clan, lol

[Pyrite[1up]]

In 2010 I ditched Slackware (after having used it since 1996) to go to Arch. Sadly, Arch left me disappointed recently after I realized how unstable it was, and their carefree decisions such as switching to systemd, etc., so a few months ago, I switched my servers to OpenBSD (wanting a *BSD like OS that Slackware/Arch are, just went for the real thing). Point is, OS's change, and I guess it is just a fact of life. Good luck with Fedora.

[SnKQuaKe]

I like em all but Arch.. I like bleeding edge but.. not alpha 0.01

[Cope57[1up]]

Last time I tried Fedora,  it was called Fedora Core, then FC 2, FC 3.  I was still testing many distributions on my laptop before I found Debian.  Seems odd getting used to the .rpm packages instead of .deb, but most commands are still the same.  I will learn it and expand my knowledge of different distributions.  Right now, it is just another OS I need to get used to.

[SnKQuaKe]

Yeah I tend to apt-get when I should yum and yum when I should apt-get hehe

They are all pretty damn good now. I actually like gnome now.. By the way do you use guake?

[Cope57[1up]]

No, I do not use guake, it seemed to be in the way when I did not want it to.  It has been a few years though, and I am sure the bugs of it not hiding or closing when exiting the application is fixed by now.

I have used Stjerm, and Tilda before, and will most likely reinstall Tilda again.  Last time I used it, the application never had an issue.

[Cope57[1up]]

Revisiting an old friend...

After working with Fedora the past few days, it seems that some things are starting to get broken because of me.  Some themes are not working, applets do not load, files are not executing, and other minor annoyances. So, at this present time I am downloading Debian once again, and will install it once again.  I think I can fix the little sound issue I had before leaving Debian, which is just as minor as Fedora's issues, but with Debian, I had only one little issue to try and solve when Fedora's issues are quickly starting to build up.

As I said before, it was a long time ago since I used Fedora, and maybe my lack of experience with configuring a .rpm based system is what is causing the problems.  However, I tend to follow the instructions that others put forth for installing, compiling, and configuring the system, but I find I now have more little issues to solve than I had before.  Right now I am just getting frustrated at not finding solutions for the Fedora issues I am having, so I will be installing Debian once again, where I am more capable of solving bugs in a familiar environment.

Another thing, what happened to Fedora?  It is trying so hard to be user friendly just like Ubuntu.  It is even more difficult to see what the operating system is actually doing.  It hides processes from the user so that one does not need to see them.  Reminds me of any Windows operating system after 3.11.  Yes, one week was enough for me to deal with, and they can keep their bling and shiney for the Linux noobs, I need an operating system which I have full control over.  I know some will suggest Arch Linux, or Gentoo, but I do not have the time to build a system or configure it to how I like it before next practice.  I will have Debian built, compiled, and configured in much less time than it would take to fix the little issues I am having with Fedora at the moment.

Maybe I just needed a break from Debian to realize the reasons I selected it many years ago.  Security, Stability, Reliability, and Customization.

Now back to your regular scheduled programming...



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