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I think a big portion of the problems Linux has these days is how unbelievably bloated and overconvulated distributions have become. Every single function has t
by dendory 12y ago
I think a big portion of the problems Linux has these days is how unbelievably bloated and overconvulated distributions have become. Every single function has three, four or more ways to do the same thing, often with different results. When trying to get something working I never know if I should run the /etc/init.d script, restart the service manually, edit a config file, use the command line config until or use the GUI settings option. Sometimes you edit a config file and get the thing to work, only to find out some other utility will overwrite it next reboot. Other times you get strange errors or just nothing at all, because it's a deprecated method and you should have used the brand new tool-du-jour instead. It's a mess.
- yellowapple 12y agoIt's for this reason that I love openSUSE - or, more specifically, YaST. Thanks to YaST, you don't have to worry about all the crap that goes with getting a service to run and be configured properly. I have a good number of servers and desktops running openSUSE, and only once have I had to manually edit a configuration file (in order to work around some obscure DBus glitch on a coworker's personal desktop); everything else has been manageable with YaST alone.
- freehunter 12y agoI tried setting proxy configuration so that apt-get would work with my employer's proxy. I put my (plain-text) username and password into a dozen different configuration files before it finally worked. Then I changed my password, and couldn't remember where all I had put my credentials in. I ended up having to reinstall the whole OS because I couldn't figure out how to undo the proxy settings that took me forever to figure out in the first place. Skipping over the fact that I had to put the password in plain text. So yes, I agree.
- yoodenvranx 12y agoI had similar problems with Linux. This is why I have now a rather long textfile in a dropbox folder in which I write down all problems/solution/tweaks I had to deal with. If the same thing pops up again after half a year I can just look it up.
- freehunter 12y agoI do the same thing with regex one-liners.
- aye 12y agoGreat idea. I keep a folder full of Markdown files that I push to a Bitbucket wiki.
- mkesper 12y agoYes, apt ignoring standard HTTP_PROXY settings by default is a shame!
- pwg 12y agoTry Slackware, http://www.slackware.com/ http://www.slackware.com/, none of that auto-magical stuff of the other distros, with it you control your system instead of your system controlling you.