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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023
  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@lemmy.ml•Tiling Distro Suggestions
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    2 months ago

    Not OP, but can only speak from my experience: Installing a second WM/DE usually messes up my install, as quite some stuff is just from one GUI framework, so I don’t have to have to much stuff installed.
    Also getting rid of it afterwards always wasn’t as easily possible.

    I completely get trying out a WM y firing up a VM. You could even just boot the live USB stick to check it out.
    But changing my working install just to try something (and then have to clean it up again) wasn’t working out for me in the past

  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•How much firmware is initializing???
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    2 months ago

    Happens to everyone

    Just having a multitude of terminals open with a mix of test environment and (just for comparison) an open connection to the production servers…

    We were at a fair/exhibition once and on the first day people working on an actual customer project asked us, if they could compare with our code.
    Obviously they flashed the wrong PLC and we were stuck dead at the first hours of the exhibition.
    I still think that this place was cursed, as we also had to do multiple re-soldering of some connections of our robot and the sherry on top was the system flash dying - where I had fucked up, because I just finished everything late at night and didn’t made a complete backup of everything.
    But it seems, if luck runs out, you lose on all fronts.

    At least I was able to restore everything in 20mins. Which must be some kind of record.
    But I was shaking so much from the stress, that I couldn’t efficiently type anymore and was lucky to have a colleague to just calmly enter what I told him to and with that we’re able to get the show case up and running again.

    Well, at least the beer afterwards tasted like the liquid of the gods

  • naeap@sopuli.xyztoLinux@programming.dev•How happy are you with your current distro?
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    5 months ago

    Because of all the nice feedback about OpenSUSE:
    SUSE was my first (bought) Linux distribution, at a time when I would have spent days downloading an ISO, SUSE was available with a manual in store. That was nice.

    But then I had an AVM Fritz! ISDN card and it was a complete shit show to get this working. Especially as YAST(2?) didn’t support the configuration I needed, but every time you opened it, it would overwrite your manual changes in some configuration files.
    (Edit: I’ll probably need to add, that this was like 25 years ago. So besides “fuck, I’m old”, my perspective in SUSE is very probably not up-to-date)

    After that I hopped through a few distros and mostly stayed with basic Debian.

    Nowadays I’m mostly using Manjaro (or just Arch itself, if I don’t need X), because I like the Arch package system and actually also the whole system architecture… Don’t exactly know what it is, but I feel much more at home.
    With apt I sometimes found myself in situations, where a fresh install will resolve things faster than trying to restore/save the system. With Arch I always was somehow able to restore everything.

    Can someone tell me how Tumbleweed differs/excels?
    Thanks in advance!
    Currently waiting for my new laptop (Framework 16 :-D) and that would be a nice opportunity to try something new.
    But as I need my device for work, it’s important to me, that I really have it under my control and am not depending on some half-baked configuration utility like YAST was.

    Edit: I’m also playing with the thought of moving to something immutable. NixOS looked nice in concept, but the more I read about it, the more I see that it’s more suitable for more server than my laptop - but maybe I’m wrong here, as I don’t have any hands-on experience