11 Apr
2025
11 Apr
'25
9:11 p.m.
On Thursday 10 April 2025 20:52:05 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote:
On 4/10/25 12:12 PM, William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
Yeah, you know ... I tried Slackware, way back when, and if I were not running
Devuan or another Debian-type OS, then I would probably move on to Slackware,
which seems more in the direction I would move ... except, Slackware is just
a little too much bother for me.
I don't work in the field. I use my machines to do other things in life. When
I can live somewhere that I have the space, then I would probably have, once
again, a room dedicated just to my machines, where I could have a test board,
and various boxes in different stages of building or disrepair, because I do
like to tinker with them, and I like building Frankensteins out of found
junk. But not at the moment; I have other, more pressing needs.
Also, in my own opinion, the Trinity ISOs leave much to be desired. I tried
installing from some of them, 'Buntus and I think some others. (I have most
of my stuff packed away in storage.) Like I said, once I landed on Debian,
that was good, but I didn't like the changes to systemd, and the internal
chaos and controversies among the devs. Maybe Devuan is just as bad, and I
just haven't heard about it yet? And maybe Devuan will go the same way as
Debian, then I'll have to find yet another OS. But for now, I am content with
Devuan.
If you somehow manage to get TDE working with Slackware, I would definitely be
interested in that, and will keep following your posts. If you create a disc,
live or installation images, I will also gladly give them a test drive. Nik
created some discs with TDE and Devuan bundled together, but he uses a flavor
of Devuan that is unfamiliar to me, and I never could get it working right.
There might be a few others out there.
If you are already comfortable running Slackware, then I would say that Devuan
will be like a walk in the park for you.
Good luck!
Bill
You want Devuan, the non-systemd fork of Debian.
I myself, Nik, and a few
others on the list, are Devuan users.
Thank you for the information and helpful links. :)
I probably also should have a TDE live ISO. I see a few options in the
wiki.
I sometimes wonder if the issues I report are in the way TDE is compiled
in Slackware. Or the way Slackware is built. Something just isn't right
here. I report too many issues. I seem to be paper cutting myself to
death. I get discouraged nobody else seems to find these issues. I feel
like some kind of proverbial annoying squeaky wheel. Conversely, perhaps
I use TDE in a manner outside the normal user bell curve and I get to be
the lucky one to hit all the speed bumps.
A live TDE ISO would allow me a quick way to test something in a
different distro on the same real hardware. Just something that boots to
TDE to test issues -- proof of concept approach.
Thanks for the reply.