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  • OpenMandriva shits me to tears

    From Woozy Song@suzyw0ng@outlook.com to alt.os.linux on Sat Apr 26 17:16:34 2025
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    I liked it years ago, BUT. Upgrading it always seems to break something. Version 6 came out, so I took a punt.
    With the latest kernel, it goes into a boot loop. Try the second newest,
    get blank screen. Going back, it only works with old kernel 5.16 and furthermore only with lxdm display manager. With sddm, get streaks of scrambled colour, maybe not setting graphics card properly. With gdm,
    get a GUI greeter, but can't login - it says password is wrong.
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  • From J.O. Aho@user@example.net to alt.os.linux on Sat Apr 26 13:15:08 2025
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    On 26/04/2025 11.16, Woozy Song wrote:
    I liked it years ago, BUT. Upgrading it always seems to break something. Version 6 came out, so I took a punt.
    With the latest kernel, it goes into a boot loop. Try the second newest,
    get blank screen. Going back, it only works with old kernel 5.16 and furthermore only with lxdm display manager. With sddm, get streaks of scrambled colour, maybe not setting graphics card properly. With gdm,
    get a GUI greeter, but can't login - it says password is wrong.

    I do prefer a rolling distribution, tend to not get breaking changes
    once a year and for me at least never had issues with my 20 year old installation that is up to date.
    --
    //Aho
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  • From Ralf Schneider@schneiderr@freenet.de to alt.os.linux on Wed Apr 30 11:14:11 2025
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    Am Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:15:08 +0200 schrieb J.O. Aho:


    This is my problem since 25 years. The higher the number of version is,
    the more weeks I need to get it running.
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  • From J.O. Aho@user@example.net to alt.os.linux on Wed Apr 30 16:05:22 2025
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    On 30/04/2025 13.14, Ralf Schneider wrote:
    Am Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:15:08 +0200 schrieb J.O. Aho:


    This is my problem since 25 years. The higher the number of version is,
    the more weeks I need to get it running.

    I used to have Gentoo for 20 years, the installation was the one and
    only install I made, sure I did migrate it to newer hard drives/ssd a
    few times, just got bored of the compile time on some packages I used,
    so switched to a binary distribution based on Arch.
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    //Aho
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  • From Jimmy Logan@punk.book8853@fastmail.com to alt.os.linux on Tue Sep 2 07:10:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: alt.os.linux

    On 2025-04-26, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:
    On 26/04/2025 11.16, Woozy Song wrote:
    I liked it years ago, BUT. Upgrading it always seems to break something.
    Version 6 came out, so I took a punt.
    With the latest kernel, it goes into a boot loop. Try the second newest,
    get blank screen. Going back, it only works with old kernel 5.16 and
    furthermore only with lxdm display manager. With sddm, get streaks of
    scrambled colour, maybe not setting graphics card properly. With gdm,
    get a GUI greeter, but can't login - it says password is wrong.

    I do prefer a rolling distribution, tend to not get breaking changes
    once a year and for me at least never had issues with my 20 year old installation that is up to date.


    Can I ask which rolling distro are you using ? 20 year is a lot!
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