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Originally posted by Charlie68 View PostMost users don't have a clue what an init service is, most of the remaining users don't care about changing the init service because they don't care. At the end of all this thing about changing the init system, only a few users are interested, this is the reason that nobody cares to maintain an init system, which can have a little testing, with all the problems that derive from it.
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
It's just so funny to me that MX allows the init switching so easily from grub, with a tiny number of developers compared to the giant that is Debian. And yet, MX does it with Debian's own repo's.
And one MX developer showed recently that not only can you easily switch between systemd and sysvinit, you can almost as easily switch MX to runit or openRC with just a handful of commands.
Again, MX uses Debian's own repos, and just a small group of their own packages. For Debian to claim that it's too much work to support init freedom seems hypocritical in light of what MX is able to do.
This is not rocket science and needs fairly straightforward post hooks after a kernel update (copy new kernel to efi partition).
This tutorial covers migrating from GRUB2 to systemd-boot on Linux systems running Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver. To keep things interesting, the test case covers Secure Boot, custom kernels (and postinstall hooks), and dm-crypt.
Doing direct efi entries directly, i.e. no boot-loader at all, is more manual and has likely different failure modes.
However, both approaches should be pretty straight forward. After all, also grub-efi must be found in the the EFI partition or efi cannot start it..
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
It's just so funny to me that MX allows the init switching so easily from grub, with a tiny number of developers compared to the giant that is Debian. And yet, MX does it with Debian's own repo's.
And one MX developer showed recently that not only can you easily switch between systemd and sysvinit, you can almost as easily switch MX to runit or openRC with just a handful of commands.
Again, MX uses Debian's own repos, and just a small group of their own packages. For Debian to claim that it's too much work to support init freedom seems hypocritical in light of what MX is able to do.
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Originally posted by tuxd3v View PostMx Linux is great, starting by letting you choose what init system to use..
And one MX developer showed recently that not only can you easily switch between systemd and sysvinit, you can almost as easily switch MX to runit or openRC with just a handful of commands.
Again, MX uses Debian's own repos, and just a small group of their own packages. For Debian to claim that it's too much work to support init freedom seems hypocritical in light of what MX is able to do.
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Originally posted by andyprough View PostMX does all that and so much more. Even gives you a choice of whether to use systemd or not at boot time. One of the really nice features is the ability to add all your drivers and change your kernel and add any packages while in the live environment, and press a button to install with all of your changes and additions intact. MX gives you two tools to make your live environment or your installed system into your own live USB to install on other systems or to hand to a friend to let them try out.
Plus it defaults to a light, beautiful, customized XFCE environment instead of a bloated Gnome-based DE.
I agree that gnome3 is a freak desktop, but I also acknowledge that xfce starts to be bloated too, as soon as they go gtk3, and so on, the bloatware come with it,
But yeah it could/should be less bloated than others..
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andyprough cm'on man, lets not be ridiculous. Kde is definitely not best at wayland support, fractional HiDPI support, or touchscreen support. However it can be the best DE for you. I respect that. Do you respect thay something else is best for me?
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Originally posted by andyprough View Post
Except Mint maintains their own DE, something neither Ubuntu or Debian does.
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Originally posted by Charlie68 View PostEveryone uses the DE that they prefer, there is no best, there is the best for me or for you etc.
Every time you read about quite unnecessary discussions on DE, it is only a graphical interface, quite the opposite is a distribution, which instead has the task of assembling and distributing the software, this means work and ability to distribute quality and version software not too old.
However Mint is only a derivative, so Ubuntu or Debian does it in its place, so they can keep 2 distributions, because in reality the bulk of the work is done by Debian and Ubuntu.
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Originally posted by Danielsan View Post
I consider everything that has the options and configurations more than two click away from your starting point is defective by design. For that reason I don't consider Windows, Android (I mean the UI/UX) and KDE good options, all of them have all these settings nested one into each others. While in XFCE4, macOS even Gnome 3 you can do everything within two clicks, for me this is having a good user experience.
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