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#376 Re: Devuan » Why are pulseaudio files present in Devuan? » 2019-01-03 17:56:41

Ron

While I'm not the OP, I avoid PulseAudio because I don't like the philosophy of its author; that has nothing to do with tinfoil hats.

#377 Re: Other Issues » Click-Drag on desktop changed » 2018-12-29 17:39:29

Ron

I don't know whether it was because of an update, or when I reinstalled my system, but now clicking and dragging on the desktop works like it always had.

#378 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-18 02:53:39

Ron

Thanks MiyoLinux. I guess I can mark this now as "solved."

#379 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-18 02:30:38

Ron

Well, it seems to have worked. However, there is no Install button on the desktop. How would I install if I had to? Would I use the refracta installer from the menu?

#380 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-17 23:09:46

Ron

golinux wrote:
Maybe you're looking in /home/<user> instead of /home (which is a root directory)?

Yeah, that was it. I found it, that's why I deleted my post. I just now burned it to a DVD, so after I'm done with this post I'm going to reboot and see if it works.

@GNUser: Thanks for the additional info!

#381 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-17 16:59:11

Ron

According to this website here, I'm not using uefi, which surprised me because I thought I was. Is the info at this site correct?

fsmithred wrote:
Nevertheless, you should exclude your data if there's any significant amount and use a different method for the data backup.

When you say different method, do you mean an app other than refractsnapshot? Or do you mean another method with refractsnapshot?

#382 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-16 17:36:10

Ron

Thanks for you reply, golinux. A few things: one, out of curiosity I opened synaptic and redid my search of "iso," and refractasnapshot was in the list. Somehow I missed it yesterday. Next, I assume refractasnapshot doesn't have a gui, as it's not listed anywhere in the start menu?

When running it in the terminal, I get this message:

configfile is /etc/refractasnapshot.conf
uefi setting is yes

 Warning: grub-efi-amd64 is not installed.
 The snapshot will not be compatible with UEFI.
 To disable this warning, set make_efi=no in /etc/refractasnapshot.conf

My first question is how do I know whether I need to download grub-efi-amd64, or just disable the warning (as is said in the last line)? If I should install it, I'm concerned that it will mess up my system. Will it change the way my system boots?

EDIT:
Found out you can download the gui from sourceforge, which I did.

#383 DIY » [SOLVED] Creating a bootable iso file » 2018-12-16 04:28:35

Ron
Replies: 12

First, I hope I put this in the right place. I would like to create a bootable .iso file of my system. I would intend to put it on a DVD disc so if the need for reinstallation ever came about, I could reinstall my system with all the apps I use already installed. To be clear, I already did some research (which made my head swim) and found out about partimage. I installed it, but apparently it won't work for me as the documentation says it works with ext2/3, but doesn't say anything about ext4, which is what I use. I also read about another way, I think it's called "dd," but I can't remember for sure. But I read that it will make the iso file the same size as the disk, including the unused space, so that wouldn't work for me. I searched Synaptic using "iso" but couldn't find what I wanted (but I might have missed something as I really don't know what I'm looking for). Can someone recommend an app, or a way to do this? I'm not asking for detailed instructions, just  give me the name of an app, or a link. Thanks.

#384 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-15 18:20:31

Ron

Thanks siva for sharing your experience with deleting avahi. I also got the same things as you and golinux.

#385 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-15 18:12:05

Ron

golinux wrote:
And desktop users are NOT our target audience

This statement has me baffled. Do you mean desktop as in Desktop Environment, or as in desktop versus laptop?

#386 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-15 00:43:45

Ron

golinux wrote:
@siva . . . You'd think a quick search would be the first thing to do.  But is sooo much easier to let someone else do it.

If you go back, you'd see that I did say I'd research it when I have the time. You know, I have a full time job, and a wife and kid that takes quite a bit of my time. I don't live on the computer. I really don't know what I said to warrant such passive aggression. And who was whining? That crack was unwarranted.

#387 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-14 00:31:51

Ron

I am still "fairly" new to Linux. And I'm just a computer user, not a geek (I don't mean that pejoratively). When I have time I'll research it, I guess.

#388 Re: Devuan » Why are pulseaudio files present in Devuan? » 2018-12-14 00:19:58

Ron

I agree with spartrekus that pulseaudio is crap. I avoid anything made by its author.

#389 Re: Off-topic » At first I thought it was insane, but then I saw who was behind it. » 2018-12-14 00:15:10

Ron

I have something on my computer made by Lennart Poettering?  mad  I avoid anything that guy makes.

Can I get more info on how to disable this crap? I have no idea what rcconf is.

#390 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-14 00:12:41

Ron

When I first tried Devuan, I had no idea which installation option I should use. So it was confusing for me. And the one I did download didn't work. Maybe I downloaded the wrong one? Thankfully the Miyo installation file worked. I can appreciate where esr is coming from on this issue, and most of the other things he has said. If he can start his own derivative of Devuan, I'd help any way I could (which would probably be limited to be a beta tester).

#391 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-08 18:39:11

Ron

I took what he wrote to mean that he tried to install Devuan over top of Mint. Any other way wouldn't be possible, right? It seems he is knowledgeable enough to know that.

#392 Re: Devuan » A philosophical diatribe: How to avoid having users - and how not to » 2018-12-08 17:14:46

Ron
Panopticon wrote:

So if you have never done a Debian install, your frustration it seems is not really based on any facts is it, or am i missing something here?

He has tried a Devuan install:

esr wrote:

The first, my wife's home-office machine, is "minx", an Intel NUC running Mint 19 - I've tried to Devuanize that and failed.

#393 Re: Devuan » Migrating from Mint » 2018-12-04 03:58:51

Ron

Hi Vargr, I've come over to Devaun from Mint also. It really isn't that hard. If you have questions, just post them here. This is a friendly forum.  smile

#394 Re: Other Issues » Problems with youtube-dl [solved] » 2018-11-10 21:58:35

Ron

Did you download the app via Synaptic? That might be the problem as the repo version is too old to work with youtube videos. I download the app straight from their website (using wget) which gives you the current version:

http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/download.html

#395 Re: Off-topic » IBM is acquiring Red Hat! » 2018-10-28 19:43:55

Ron

Should we consider this as good news or bad news? Or neutral news?

#396 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 19:40:30

Ron

I totally deleted the line, "sleep 0.5" and the line itself. That was the right way to do it, right? It seems to have made the delay a (very) tad bit shorter.

Thanks GNUser. smile

#398 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 15:49:28

Ron

Thanks GNUser, sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/atril did the trick. There's just one little annoyance . . . when I open Atril (and AbiWord), it first opens unmaximized for a split second, before going maximized. But I can live with that (I'm guessing there's nothing that can be done about that).

#399 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 04:25:02

Ron

@GNUser, it isn't working for me. When I open Atril (from the desktop icon) it still doesn't open maximized.

#400 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] How to get these 2 apps to open maximized? » 2018-10-28 01:11:03

Ron

Thanks golinux. I'm using Mate. The "Save Current Settings as Default" option didn't help. Any other ideas?

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