On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 02:36:57PM -0600, David Wright wrote: [...] > The only reasons I'd close down X are (a) a dist-upgrade from > oldstable to stable (and the like), That I do, too. > and (b) dpkg-reconfigure > console-setup and keyboard-configuration after I've been > tinkering with /etc/console-setup/remap.inc (which is > currently two years old). The latter may now be cargo-cult, but > I think it was advised in the past. I can't say much about that. > Like you, I admit to being an fvwm user (since 1996; never used > anything else). I actually had a panoramic round trip: twm, a bit of olwm (what can you do with 4 megabytes of RAM?), fvwm, several strange things in between, Gnome DE (with Metacity), then XFCE, then a couple of tiling WMs. So I *do* know for sure that fvwm is made for me :-) > The one application I do avoid upgrading while it's running is > Firefox, but that's mainly because it occasionally gives a new > startup screen after an upgrade, and I want to read what it says. I take the risk and watch the thing going down in flames. I admit that it gives me a strange feeling of satisfaction (I might be a bit perverse, dunno). > > Oh, something I forgot: besides no DM, my init system is still > > SysV. This might or might not contribute to stability through > > simplicity. > > No stability problems here with systemd. Nor with udev (apparently > from the same stable, sorry for the pun) [...] Udev I do have: a laptop with Linux and no udev is most probably no fun, I think. > And not forgetting the robustness of ext4, that allegedly > "unfashionable" filesystem. My most frequent cause of "crashes", > by far, is powercuts. Yay for ext4 :-) Cheeers -- t
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