(08-31-2020, 10:08 PM)moonwalkers Wrote:(08-30-2020, 09:37 AM)pine76 Wrote: Ah ok you have a long experience with linux. I never managed using a linux flavor for more than 2 years; so, I am impressed.
Well, my point was - I've never reinstalled, any problems I've encountered - I found the root cause and repaired the system. Am I treating as a pet something that perhaps could save me time if I treated it like cattle? Perhaps, but I believe because of that attitude I learned an order of magnitude more about the ins and outs of GNU/Linux than I could have otherwise.
My path has been opposite; I have been hopping distros from one to another for various reasons: sometimes the distro being highly experimental (as in fedora where usability is unfortunately a second priority), security related concerns (I left both ubuntu, manjaro linux for this reason in the past), or hardware related problems due to me using a converted pc.
In any cases, appropriate documentation has been unfortunately a big part of the problem (Just to your information, I have decided to try Arch Wiki documentation for setting up mpd in Manjaro; however, the instructions are inadequate. I suspect they are also dated, which can be concerning given the vision of Arch being do-it-yourself type of distro like Gentoo and Linux From Scratch). I know opensuse and redhat are relatively good at least keeping their base documentation up-to-date, I am not aware of others keeping up.
I eventually decided on a few distros that seemed most promising to me: Centos, Debian, and Slackware. Debian stands out for me among the others: Slackware is dying and Centos is inadaquate for a laptop use.
I could have tried a Gentoo install to take control of everything myself instead of installing/seeking documentation. But I never had enough time for it.
I am on Manjaro XFCE now, which is more usable to me than the default KDE edition. However, there are software that I can't find on Manjaro, e.g. sagemath (available on AUR and giving me error on install; compiling is a headache too). So, I will likely switch to Debian or a Fedora based distro depending. I also know security issues related to Manjaro in the past; so, it is another reason for me to consider leaving.
I may try reading the Debian Documentation to get more familiar with the OS itself; it doesn't look terribly dated. I guess with my pinebook pro, I will have the opportunity to ty fixing a problem if occurs without worrying about losing time in my work...
Well, linux world has been a world of quick hacks for me so far. Hope I find a serious (unix like) distro where some learning can be valuable. Debian seems to be one but I am not very high on it either.