Thu 16 Jan 2025 21:52:54 GMT - 1737064374

Am I Really Going to Install PeppermintOS (Devuan) On My Ideacenter?

That's my big important computer, the one that has to at least work most of the time.

VoidLinux is bullet proof.

I've never had it brake but latterly the size of some of the updates haz been redonkulous.

I think I'd prefer to use most of my data on PB!.. In Void it's the constant Kernel updates that are kinda annoying, they are usually over a hundred megabytes everytime and it's not major updates either, it's like 0.001 incremental updates but you get the entire thing not the 0.001MB of the point release but the entire *ucking Kernel.

linux6.12 update 6.12.9_1 6.12.10_1 153MB

This is probably why it's never broke; The updates are so infinitesimal, breakage is utterly improbable. However whilst the update is infinitesimal from a 'change' point of view installing a new Kernel every couple of days (Yep, Really) is just bone!

You can leave it for a few day of course; but then this happens..

. chromium update 131.0.6778.85_1 132.0.6834.83_1 113MB

. linux6.12 update 6.12.9_1 6.12.10_1 153MB

. oniguruma update 6.9.9_1 6.9.10_1 195KB

. python3-numpy update 2.2.1_1 2.2.2_1 5939KB

Size to download: 273MB

asoasf.

I liked Freebsd for it's lack of updating but hated it's lack of drive management so that's out. Devuan is ok, but it's a bit needy, I had to add my user to the Sudoers file, not a big deal but fooken'el man shouldn't that be a default? + it has quite a lot of stuff I will never use and once you start hacking away at a system someones took ages to put together is always seems a little unstable after youve hacked it to oblivion. Also also, it felt like old Debian, kindof the operating system version of Harry Booth's Space cardigans. #TheBlackHole

Insert PepperMint-OS.. Despite the PERPLEXING addition of Sane and CUPS it's pretty much done out the box. No drive mounting issues, no extraneous bloat apart from the aforementioned and the updates for it far from being irregular are regular-ish but tiny. It works great on my laptop Lenovo-X250. Through it I've rediscovered XFCE4, it's a great fall back desktop incase I *uckup EXWM or DWM, to that end the later is never messed with.

The upshot of this gibberish is me trying to figure out if I should install PeppermintOs on my main PC, I installed Virt-Manager and cloned my laptop using an apt package list, downloading all the debs that are installed on my laptop and blah blah a virtual machine that is virtually identical to my laptop, it was fairly easy to do. I could have two identical systems with relative ease and not have to mess about with constant updates or changing sync'd config files. At the time of write I have to edit my .zshrc to reflect two diffrent systems...

First World Problems.. Spoilt For Choice.

Thats the real problem. Spoilt for choice. My only complaint about the operating system I'm using (VoidLinux) isn't even a complaint, it's just a behavior could properly alter if I could... RTFM!

For Now I'll Xbps-pkgdb -m Hold Annoying Kernal and See What Happens.. (I have an alias for this I'd forgoten about).