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dsfadsfgafgf.xyz - Gave up Distro hoping - Sun 28 Feb 2021 19:46:21 GMT
Celebrating thing's to moan about in distro land.
Over the last week or so I've been distro hopping (hope-ing).
What a fairly miserable experience that's been. I think I've tried most BSD
operating systems, which are quite cool to be honest but I simply haven't
got the time to sort one out. Ironically I think BSD would be the best
distro for me if I could be bothered, having never tried it before I
think I may have to make a concerted effort to get FreeBSD up and running
someday.
Now; with the way the tide is turning I decided to jump ship when it comes
to systemd.. Reasons multi-various now, and more over the big brother
future we are in and it only goes down hill from here.
So that limited my Linux choices and I've tried a few but finally gave up.
As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
Proverbs 26:11
I finally gave up at Artix. I tried to resist Arch based system's as I'm
already on Arch. I was looking for different even though you'd be hard
pressed to find a better distro than Arch.
Anyway Artix- the sound didn't work (colour me surprised)
nor did auto mounting USB, although it was the i3 version, which is a
community edition, so there's that.
Would I normally give up with easy fixes. Probably not. At least there is
an installer a Cat could use, so no time waisted there.
However, audio linux is dreadful, always has been: file under. FAQ-FLU
Cure = Take one Ubuntu Studio strip the cruft out of it - Shwing.
I installed pipewire and without any setup whatsoever audio just started
working, Awesome! After a reboot though it was back to not working..
Snore.. Still no USB auto-mounting. Can I find a concise Runit tutorial?
Nope. Why? Well..
"Unlike other distros using runit, Artix doesn’t store its service directory
in" (Blah blah blah cluster*uckery)
I can feel a Flu coming on!
What to do first? Sort out the sound or configure a desktop to my liking
which requires USB access?
Ok I can work on this with music playing, it's just more fun. But sound
isn't working nor is USB.
I can't stream music nor can I play it from an external drive = *uck you
and your *ucking operating system and your none standard *uckerd*uck*uck.
That has been my experience over the last week. Not one of the "systemd
free" operating systems I've tried has "just worked" without some
pestiferous annoyance.
A pestiferous annoyance that really feels like something from fifteen
years ago at least.
In fact it remind me of how thing's used to be. Trudging off to the
library with a fist full of floppy disks praying you could get on a
computer and finally sort out some dependency loop bollox using the
exciting new internet thingy.
Run back home try again "Computer says no"
MISSING DEPENDANT...
But thing's where simpler then. At least the internet
wasn't an utter dumpster fire of out of date squabble-fests and opinions
about- Insert any given subject relating to getting anything to work.
All in all the proliferation of distros not withstanding Ubuntu
derivatives seems to be something to do with systemd.
Maybe it just work's?
Maybe it works well enough to start pulseaudio (the child of Satan) but
not well enough to tell it "no one" and I mean "NO ONE uses HDMI audio"
you *ucking Troll.
Maybe it works well enough to start a service called automount my *ucking
USB drives when I plug them in?
Maybe it works well enough to belong in the Twenty First Century, with
all it's decades old "modern" requirements?
Maybe that's why it is derided over and above the failed "one thing well"
philosophy. Because if my last week checking out systemd free operating
systems has taught me anything. It's that that philosophy clearly isn't
working for those distros.
Or maybe I've just been spoilt?
Over the years learning less and less just to get thing's done has just
been a boon to getting thing's done.
Ironic really!
I've never been interested in how my car is put together, I can top up the
oil and fill the radiator with water, especial now that I know that water in
a car has been rebranded "coolant".
Same goes for an operating system. I don't mind trouble shooting anything
but I'm not going to sort thing's that should just work out of box and
don't because a philosophy has turned into an unworkable dogma.
Ask your self these questions. Would you send it back to the manufacturer
and ask for a refund?
Is any of this really worth the effort?
This old dog may yet return to his own vomit..
I thought you already had?