Subj : Re: What's Your Go-to OS
To : fusion
From : Gamgee
Date : Wed Feb 19 2025 12:57 pm
-=> fusion wrote to Gamgee <=-
Ga> Probably my biggest dislike of Slackware, right there. A real world
fu> mine is the .new and .orig files that get scattered around when
fu> software is updated lol
I usually just ignore those... :-)
fu> before that it was kernel updates back when i had an nvidia card.. the
fu> instructions basically had you running some swap commands because parts
fu> of xorg had to be replaced, rebuilding the kernel driver (hopefully not
fu> accidentally to the old kernel version instead of the new one), and
fu> then swapping the new files back into xorg.. not really hard but was a
fu> nuisance when you accidentally miss a step and your desktop comes up @
fu> 800x600..
Oh yes, I remember that too. In fact I remember having to manually edit
xorg.conf files and fiddle with resolutions, etc... "modeline"... UGH.
