05-13-2023, 12:33 AM
(05-12-2023, 08:18 PM)Kernelpanic Wrote: @mnrvovrfc - Doesn't that cost a lot of energy to keep dealing with a new distro and its peculiarities?
Yes it does but it doesn't stop me. I just came out of purging EndeavourOS MATE in favor of Manjaro MATE. The other day I was checking out Garuda but it wanted an entire 64GB disk that I really needed for backing up other stuff. So I deleted that one as well. The other backup disk forced me to go into Windows to repair it because no Linux installation I had could recognize it. :O Everything is good now.
I have the freedom to choose one or the other. I couldn't do this in February-2022 or before that, while I didn't have Internet. I had to suck up Windows, and didn't know any better. Without Internet it's impossible to make choices, because other parties do it for me when I buy a computer.
Windows users are surprised with the users of Linux and other Unix-like things complaining about "systemd", about the Ubuntu Snap shop, about the rise of immutable operating systems and other things. I have to accept "systemd" because I must have stuff working most of the time, and this is a lot like accepting MacOS or Windows having stuff working most of the time. But I could choose if I should have Snaps or not! And I could choose not to have something like Garuda or VanillaOS -- because I'm not rich enough to go buy a 5TB disk to create at least two partitions in "btrfs" format to satisfy the requirements for "most safety, most secure, most bulletproof".
As I've already said, I installed Manjaro MATE after a two-month hiatus. I took down the troublesome Pamac application handler. With that the system decided to remove "gcc" at its pleasure! Although I wouldn't miss other things like "Manjaro hello" and "snapd", it should have let me retain "gcc". It demonstrates I'm never going to be an intermediate to expert Linux user, or at least I'm not going to know deeply about Arch Linux nor any of its descendants.