Subj : Re: Slimmed down Debian To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Wed Nov 06 2019 08:50:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! Oh, that's me! > One of the things about Deja Dup is the recovery/restore portion is via > Terminal, or at least time I looked I didn't see anything in GUI. Then > it pulls up a GUI ut that almost seems like it doesn't serve any purpose > except to click to go on to the next step: click
(or whatever > the button is labeled) and appears nothing is happening. So be patient > as it appears nothing is happening yet your recovery is occurring. Weird... I try to avoid the terminal, because it's so blind -- I always feel like I have no idea where anything is going. Not like DOS at all, despite the superficial similarity. > KM> We also have KBackup: > KM> https://kde.org/applications/utilities/org.kde.kbackup > KM> It's much more easily granular. > KM> Nice thing about the KApps, they all look and behave alike, and > KM> they all respect your desktop config. > > I don't think I've had any issues with configurations being changed, or > are you meaning something different than what I'm thinking? No, I mean you don't have to relearn the interface for each and every app. And if you have workspaces set to A theme, N color, and X font, that's what they'll use, not something picked at the coder's whim. > Automated is (generally) good! As for restoring the OS, could also be a > good idea to have a backup to GRUB's ability to go back one or two -- as > you said, GRUB can go bad too. And above all GRUB should be bulletproof. Should tell you something... > KM> Yeah, that's good if the system will start... if you can't get as > KM> far as GRUB, like when Mint committed seppuku on me... not so > KM> much. > > Here no problem with the system starting, just a problem with getting it > going. As I recall an incompatibility with an nVidia utility and the > system just kept rebooting. ... to get to GRUB to select the > earlier version. At least GRUB wasn't screwed up! Yeah, the kernel after ... um, what's on Cash? Without going to look, after 4.1.9 or some such antiquity -- isn't compatible with older NVidia drivers, IIRC 3.40 and before. Which is one reason I froze the old box and have been poking at making a new box. With mixed results so far... === ....I've been experimenting: The only Debian (never had much luck with it) that would run or install is with Cinnamon, which is tolerable but not my first choice. It did something to my pre-done partitions so PCLOS wouldn't have anything to do with it: Swap? what swap?? Also, Debian took about an hour to install. Everything else on that box installs in 5 minutes or less. Fedora/KDE left to its own decisions defaulted to LVM partitioning which refuses to be resized, and can't be read by live setups. And what's with the package managers? One is so dumb you can't find anything and the other is so smart you can't find anything. Synaptic may be quirky and ugly but it's easier to use. *sigh* I keep being reminded why I settled on PCLOS. And I prefer real installs to VMs, but ... I might change my mind. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .