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  • [OT] Mageia is still the best

    From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/1 to All on Wed Jul 31 13:22:51 2019
    I have always wanted to try a CLI distro from the ArchLinux family.
    Manjaro seemed to be the most popular variety, so I downloaded it and
    burned it to a DVD.

    On the first attempt, it refused to install, saying that a "module" was missing. On the second attempt, just now, it installed but wouldn't
    boot. During the installation, it flagged that each of two packages was dependent on the other. Lovely!

    At the very end, a different inconsistency of about the same order of importance popped up. On trying to reboot into Mageia, it reported that
    the Grub configuration was defective in syntax, and ended with a kernel
    panic. Then, using Mageia's Rescue to reinstall its Grub loader, the
    root partition could not be found. Fortunately, the old Grub stanza for Mageia was still there, and selectable.

    The only thing that I like about Arch is that during troubleshooting, it
    gives me a more basic insight into what is happening. I can have that
    without installing it, by reading the manual on line.

    Doug.

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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Thu Aug 1 02:58:34 2019
    On 31.07.2019 at 22:22, Doug Laidlaw scribbled:

    I have always wanted to try a CLI distro from the ArchLinux family.=20 Manjaro seemed to be the most popular variety, so I downloaded it and=20 burned it to a DVD.
    =20
    On the first attempt, it refused to install, saying that a "module"
    was missing. On the second attempt, just now, it installed but
    wouldn't boot. During the installation, it flagged that each of two
    packages was dependent on the other. Lovely! [...]

    What Manjaro version did you install?


    o Official editions :

    - KDE Plasma
    - GNOME
    - XFCE

    o Community editions:=20

    - LXDE
    - LXQT
    - Deepin
    - Cinnamon
    - Budgie
    - Librewish KDE Plasma
    - i3
    - Awesome
    - BSPWM


    What release did you pick?

    o Stable (Illyria)
    o Testing (Juhraya)


    What hardware did you install it on?


    All of the above matters. The only problems I had were that my UEFI
    was set up to boot in "UEFI + legacy" first, which did not allow me to
    set up a native UEFI installation =E2=80=94 likewise with PLInuxOS, for that matter =E2=80=94 and that the [usr] hook had not been added to the initamfs=
    by
    default, so I had to rebuild the initramfs from a chroot. =20

    Oh, and Pan segfaults upon downloading Usenet articles, so I'm using
    Claws Mail instead. I've tried Thunderbird, but that one sucks big
    time. It messes up the quoting, it has a horrible user interface and
    even more horrible filtering, plus that it doesn't even recognize
    cross-posted articles.

    Other than that, I've had zero problems with it. I'm using it as my
    daily driver. ;)

    --=20
    With respect,
    =3D Aragorn =3D


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