On 01/04/2021 20.25, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 4/1/21 4:21 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I guess it's been too long since I did it, must have forgotten. Thanks David and Carlos.
I also forgot, I have not done that in ages. Which is why I searched my notees ;-)
I have a file, named "programs_for.txt" which contains a list of programs and a short description of what they are for.
In the old days, we learned how to manage Linux. It was all done via text config files and short utility commands. There was one way of doing things (recall make mrproper?).
Indeed I do. Very dangerous.
Over the years different apps and installers came along that would automate much of the manual config maintenance and executed the short utilities to tidy up for you -- for their specific app or part of Linux.
That thinking has proliferated over the past 20 years. We have somewhat screwed ourselves in that regard. Now we have a hodgepodge of some 5,000 apps that implement some aspect of configuration of their own app and the required libraries. We have systemd that tries to automate a great deal. Then there is the alternatives framework, wicked, zypper and YAST above that, drakut, network manager, etc...
The one config where automation has been stunning is X. No more crafting modelines with xvidtune to transfer to xorg.conf -- it all works by automated defaults (most of the time)
So instead of learning how to admin Linux, much effort is now spent trying to keep track of what each of the new great automated tools does and does not do for you.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against the automation. Much of the automation provides a net time savings over doing it from scratch, but it has made Linux less about Linux and more about what tools your distro uses to admin it. I do find I actually like to know what config value in which file I'm setting rather than learning which radio button on what page of the GUI helper to check....
Yes, there is that...
In using just about all distros, I'm not sure which is actually the easier route. It has been an interesting ride.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.2 x86_64 at Telcontar)