On Thursday 10 April 2025 20:52:05 Darrell Anderson via tde-users wrote: > On 4/10/25 12:12 PM, William Morder via tde-users wrote: > > You want Devuan, the non-systemd fork of Debian. I myself, Nik, and a few > > others on the list, are Devuan users. > > Thank you for the information and helpful links. :) > > I probably also should have a TDE live ISO. I see a few options in the > wiki. > > I sometimes wonder if the issues I report are in the way TDE is compiled > in Slackware. Or the way Slackware is built. Something just isn't right > here. I report too many issues. I seem to be paper cutting myself to > death. I get discouraged nobody else seems to find these issues. I feel > like some kind of proverbial annoying squeaky wheel. Conversely, perhaps > I use TDE in a manner outside the normal user bell curve and I get to be > the lucky one to hit all the speed bumps. > > A live TDE ISO would allow me a quick way to test something in a > different distro on the same real hardware. Just something that boots to > TDE to test issues -- proof of concept approach. > > Thanks for the reply. Yeah, you know ... I tried Slackware, way back when, and if I were not running Devuan or another Debian-type OS, then I would probably move on to Slackware, which seems more in the direction I would move ... except, Slackware is just a little too much bother for me. I don't work in the field. I use my machines to do other things in life. When I can live somewhere that I have the space, then I would probably have, once again, a room dedicated just to my machines, where I could have a test board, and various boxes in different stages of building or disrepair, because I do like to tinker with them, and I like building Frankensteins out of found junk. But not at the moment; I have other, more pressing needs. Also, in my own opinion, the Trinity ISOs leave much to be desired. I tried installing from some of them, 'Buntus and I think some others. (I have most of my stuff packed away in storage.) Like I said, once I landed on Debian, that was good, but I didn't like the changes to systemd, and the internal chaos and controversies among the devs. Maybe Devuan is just as bad, and I just haven't heard about it yet? And maybe Devuan will go the same way as Debian, then I'll have to find yet another OS. But for now, I am content with Devuan. If you somehow manage to get TDE working with Slackware, I would definitely be interested in that, and will keep following your posts. If you create a disc, live or installation images, I will also gladly give them a test drive. Nik created some discs with TDE and Devuan bundled together, but he uses a flavor of Devuan that is unfamiliar to me, and I never could get it working right. There might be a few others out there. If you are already comfortable running Slackware, then I would say that Devuan will be like a walk in the park for you. Good luck! Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
